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Yearly Archives: 2016

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  • 9 Jun 2016
    Samuel Saloway-Cooke

    Six Views on the Theatrical Past

    To mark this year's International Federation for Theatre Research conference, we asked members of the Theatre Research International editorial board to delve into the archives for articles that shed light on the relationship between performance studies and theatre history.

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  • 8 Jun 2016
    Social Media, News
    Richard Haier, James R. Flynn, Robert J. Sternberg

    How the media is affecting Human Intelligence

    Three Cambridge University Press authors and leading experts on Intelligence take on our virtual roundtable on 'How are technological advances, access to instant information and media forces affecting human intelligence?'

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  • 7 Jun 2016
    Pratheepan Gulasekaram

    Immigration and the US Election (Part 1): The New Immigration Federalism

    With immigration at the forefront of this year’s US Presidential Election, and a decision from the Supreme Court on United States v. Texas expected at the end of June, we asked some of our authors to reflect on the ongoing debates over the future of immigration law and policy in the United States. This is […]

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  • 7 Jun 2016
    Rebecca Adler-Nissen

    A Very British Club: How the UK has built the EU since 1973 (but hasn’t realised it, yet)

    The view from Denmark As a Dane, I follow the Brexit discussion with both interest and bewilderment. Denmark entered the European Communities in 1973 together with the United Kingdom and Ireland. For many Danes the fate of Denmark in Europe is therefore naturally linked to that of the UK. Yet, the British EU referendum debate […]

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  • 2 Jun 2016
    John MacAuslan

    Upending Expectations: Four Disconcerting Works

    FifteenEightyFour has been discussing music with author John MacAuslan. In his fourth and final article, MacAuslan explores four very different and distinct works of Schumann.  The first three articles can be read here.    Within five years, Schumann wrote four great piano works connected to the fiction of E. T. A. Hoffmann. They’re strikingly different from […]

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  • 2 Jun 2016
    Tuomas E. Tahko

    Getting to know Metametaphysics

    Can you give us a brief explanation of what metametaphysics is, and the big questions at the core of it? The term ‘meta-metaphysics’ may seem awkward – and it is – but it is descriptive: the focus is on a methodological, meta-level analysis of the discipline of metaphysics. On a very general level, there are […]

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  • 1 Jun 2016
    IQ Test
    Richard Haier, James R. Flynn, Robert J. Sternberg

    What role do IQ tests play in measuring Intelligence?

    Three Cambridge University Press authors and leading experts on Intelligence take on our virtual roundtable on 'Human Intelligence'. Week three of the six part series asks the question 'What role do IQ tests play in measuring intelligence?'

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  • 31 May 2016
    R.P. Burn

    The Genesis of Numbers and Functions

    R.P. Burn details the major difficulties in writing Numbers and Functions and how he channelled his own experiences as a student learning the subject to compose this compelling text

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