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Yearly Archives: 2019

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  • 6 Sep 2019
    Edward Roberts

    Individuality and history in the ‘age of iron’: Flodoard of Rheims

    The decades following the demise of the Carolingian Empire in 888 were traditionally seen as a downward spiral of political fragmentation and cultural stagnation: a ‘mind-the-gap’ period between the ninth-century Carolingian achievement and the intellectual vibrancy and royal assertiveness of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The humanist Lorenzo Valla famously described this period as ‘an […]

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  • 5 Sep 2019
    Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

    Lear on Screen: a vision of our times

    Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear is the most recent volume in the Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Screen series, which provides in-depth analyses of how Shakespeare’s work has been adapted on screen (interpreted broadly to include cinema, live theatre broadcasts, television, and a diverse range of digital forms). Originating with a seminar at the 2016 […]

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  • 5 Sep 2019
    Dr. Sanjay Asthana

    Why do you want to study India’s State-run Media

    ‘Why do you want to study India’s State-run Media?’ This question was frequently posed to me by my friends and fellow academics. For some broadcasting if not passé, is quite a mouthful, and hard to pronounce. ‘Why not study the increasing presence and uses of the internet, mobile phones, and associated digital media forms in […]

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  • 1 Sep 2019
    Melissa Crouch

    Indonesia’s Experiment with Specialised Courts

    Since the end of authoritarian rule under Suharto in 1998 Indonesia has experience two decades of law reform, which has had a huge effect on the courts. Melissa Crouch investigates these reforms below.

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  • 30 Aug 2019
    Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren, Egbert Fortuin

    Universal Semantic Syntax: A Semiotactic Approach

    In our book Universal Semantic Syntax we provide an introduction into a unique theory of syntax, which is based on the idea that syntax is part of semantics. This theory takes a radical different approach to syntax from mainstream generative Chomskyan syntactic theory, and builds upon insights of syntax based on more than a century […]

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  • 28 Aug 2019
    IP in 50 Objects
    Claudy Op den Kamp

    A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects

    A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.  

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  • 27 Aug 2019
    Kevin A. Young

    Liberating the Left’s History

    “Will Bolivia and Peru become Indian republics through communist instigation?” So asked a conservative Bolivian newspaper in 1949. Two years prior, large portions of the countryside had witnessed indigenous rebellions against forced labor, land theft, and racism. Although the elite rhetoric blaming “outside agitators” was disingenuous, the rebellions did in fact feature alliances between indigenous […]

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  • 27 Aug 2019
    Eve C. Sorum

    Modernist Empathy Now?

    Barack Obama was the empathy president. I don’t say this simply because of some of his more famous uses of the term—for example, when he described his criteria for Supreme Court nominees in May 2009 as including “that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for […]

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