Tara Brabazon: So, what is your area of interest?
Stuart Hall supposedly asked one question that would determine whether a student joined the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon examines the importance of having...
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MEPs to rein in changes to animal testing
Scientists successfully lobby for weakening of restrictions on primate experiments. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Bullied Blogger: Stasi brutes and Brecht
The harassment from the university is developing into an art form, endless, like a rigged game of roulette where the croupier fixes the bounce of the ball. I dread the postman and fear the phone...
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Oxford college accused of stifling free speech
A University of Oxford college has been accused of stifling free speech after it cancelled a lecture by a controversial anti-Zionist rabbi.
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University scholarships signal ‘new era’ in Anglo-Iraqi relations
In London, Prime Minister Maliki unveils a raft of initiatives to strengthen ties with the UK higher education sector, while in Basra, British forces withdraw. John Gill reports
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Outsiders required to deliver economic impact
Nesta says universities need ‘boundary spanners’ to build commercial links and boost businesses. Hannah Fearn reports
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How Professors Think
Fred Inglis searches the academy for signs of intelligent life - or clear diction, at a pinch
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Living up to Death
The content of this book falls short, sadly, of its promising title. The gathered unfinished fragments of man meditating on his own death might have been moving and suffused with insight and...
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The Canon: Lives of the Artists By Giorgio Vasari
Vasari's Lives - to give them their full dignity, The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - is currently available in at least four paperback editions: Dover Books, Modern...
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Out of the ballpark
Anthropologist Thomas Carter's passion for baseball led him to explore the game's special significance for Cuba in The Quality of Home Runs. He gives Matthew Reisz the rundown
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Book of the week: Naming Infinity
Tony Mann celebrates a book that emphasises the human factor
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The week in books
South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country since the End of Apartheid by R.W. Johnson, emeritus fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford. Allen Lane, £25.00, ISBN 9780713995381"For Johnson all (...
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The Romantic Economist
Economists need to be embedded in the culture of society to explain how it works, says Natalie Gold
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Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America
This is the second volume of Barry Schwartz's study of how Americans' memory of their greatest president continually transforms. The first volume, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (...
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Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 - an event whose 20th anniversary is now imminent - the history and culture of the German capital have triggered lively interest at home and abroad...