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Yearly Archives: 2023

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  • 22 Nov 2023
    Laura S. Abrams, Elan C. Hope, Laura Wray-Lake

    How can we fight for racial justice? Lessons from Young Black Changemakers

    The events of 2020 are unforgettable. What do you most remember when you look back on this time? Surely, the COVID-19 pandemic comes to mind.

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  • 21 Nov 2023
    Charlotte Woodhead

    Caring for cultural heritage

    The journey towards caring for cultural heritageI have been interested for many years in how the UK looks after cultural heritage by law and ethical principles. I came to adopt the framework of care, in some ways by accident. The term ‘caring’ started for me as a way of explaining the wide range of activities […]

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  • 20 Nov 2023
    Dane Kennedy

    Who is an Explorer?

                  When the submersible Titan imploded on its descent to the wreckage of the Titanic this past June, its five victims were widely eulogized as explorers.  They were termed “true explorers” by OceanGate, the company that sponsored the voyage.  OceanGate’s founder, Stockton Rush, who piloted the Titan that day, saw himself as an explorer and […]

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  • 17 Nov 2023
    Adam Bisno

    Hitler, the Hotel Guest

    In February 1931, two years before he became chancellor, Adolf Hitler checked in to Berlin’s Hotel Kaiserhof and made it his headquarters in the capital. The building soon swarmed with Nazis, who transformed the clientele overnight. Jewish custom evaporated. Business suffered. A year and a half later, with revenues in freefall, the hotel’s parent company […]

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  • 16 Nov 2023
    Ana Lucia Araujo

    Beyond the Holiday Season: Gifts and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    If you have been following the news in the past months, you may have read that Democrats in the United States reported that the White House under Donald Trump failed to report gifts received by the former president from foreign nations. Moreover, other gifts went missing. Similar stories have also made the news in Brazil. […]

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  • 15 Nov 2023
    Barbara Pezzotti

    Plunging Crime Fiction into the Mediterranean Sea

    My passion for crime fiction started very early, thanks to my aunt Andreina who was an avid reader of the genre. She had an extensive collection of “Gialli Mondadori”, a crime series published by the Milanese publisher Mondadori that sports a distinctive yellow book cover (hence the name “gialli” which, in Italian, means yellow). Since […]

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  • 15 Nov 2023
    Bogdan G. Popescu

    Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier

    Migration of the Serbs, by Serbian painter Paja Jovanović Security concerns often necessitate the establishment of specialized institutions in border regions that diverge from the norm in civilian territories. Scholars discuss how those residing in these frontier zones frequently endure unique challenges, a consequence of the state’s dual pursuit of safeguarding the periphery and subjugating […]

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  • 15 Nov 2023
    Yaniv Feller

    Thinking Empire with Leo Baeck

    White-bearded and dignified, Leo Baeck disembarked an airplane in New York’s La Guardia airport in January 1948. The seventy-four year-old rabbi came to preach in the United States as part of the American Jewish Cavalcade, a religious revival program of the Reform movement. As the former official leader of German Jewry under Nazism and a […]

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