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  • 10 Aug 2020
    Catherine Armstrong

    American Slavery, American Imperialism

    Since the racist murder of George Floyd earlier this year, slavery’s remembrance and legacy is a topic of great significance in the contemporary world. The ongoing pain that slavery and racism causes for black people all over the world is palpable and often made worse by the refusal of those in positions of power to […]

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  • 7 Aug 2020
    Dániel Z. Kádár

    Interactional rituals and the systematic analysis of avoiding conflict – Part 1

    In this blog we will discuss the complexities surrounding the use of particular expressions that are somewhat ‘heavy’ from the point of view of language use.  In interactional ritual theory, these expressions are referred to as RFIEs. Many RFIEs are intrinsically interrelated with speech acts and their use helps us to indicate that certain ritualistic […]

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  • 6 Aug 2020
    Angela Wright, Dale Townshend

    Editorial Reflections: The Cambridge History of the Gothic, Volumes I and II

    The invitation that we received to conceptualise and edit the multi-volume The Cambridge History of the Gothic in 2015 was both exciting and daunting: exciting insofar as it provided a unique and privileged opportunity to make crucial, field-defining interventions in the realm of Gothic Studies, yet daunting since, all practical and logistical considerations aside, we […]

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  • 5 Aug 2020
    Dániel Z. Kádár

    Interactional rituals and the systematic analysis of avoiding conflict – Part 2

    Of the various speech acts used in the wake of COVID-19 and the corresponding need for social distancing, ‘Apologise’ is perhaps the most important.  Since the enforcement of social distancing unavoidably leads to moral uproar, we often find ourselves apologising profusely for trying to safeguard our own health – an interesting paradox that can be […]

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  • 3 Aug 2020
    Anna P. Judson

    Reading Undeciphered Signs

    How can we study written signs that we can’t read? This is the central question of my forthcoming book, The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices. The Linear B writing system, used for administrative documents in Late Bronze Age Greece (c.1400-1200 BCE) was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, who showed that […]

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  • 3 Aug 2020
    Kirk Curnutt, Suzanne del Gizzo

    Diving into the Next Wave of Hemingway Studies

    Even in this strangest of summers, when social distancing leaves us feeling we’re living in suspended animation, the art of the dive can teach us about poise and exploration—the walk to the edge, the glance down into faraway water, the prickle of fear, the headlong leap, the thrill of hurtling through air, and, finally, the […]

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  • 3 Aug 2020
    Hyaeweol Choi

    Home/Away from Home: Travel and Gender Politics

    Travel has been deeply ingrained in human history. In this time of COVID-19 lockdowns, international travel has become especially limited, even banned. To be sure, the internet offers a virtual landscape for curious minds to wander, bringing the world to home. Exploring the world by clicking around on the internet is comparatively low-cost, safe and […]

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  • 31 Jul 2020
    The robotic arm on NASA's InSight lander places a seismometer onto the surface of Mars.(credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech).
    Kenneth Coles

    Marsquakes may originate in a well-known fracture

    Reports of the first marsquakes – seismic events caused by crustal movement – aroused my interest. Recordings of earthquakes here on our own planet have taught us everything from the number and nature of layers in the interior to where the most active faults are located. The seismicity of the Earth contributed vital information that […]

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