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Yearly Archives: 2023

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  • 14 Nov 2023
    Susan Stein-Roggenbuck

    Reflections on Parent Dependency in American Social Policy

    Caring for aging parents is a reality that many people face, or will face, as their parents age and need more support and care. My book, Caring for Mom and Dad, analyzes public policies that either required or encouraged support of aging parents in financial need throughout the twentieth century. I discovered responsible relative laws […]

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  • 13 Nov 2023
    Katrin Nahidi

    The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran

    My book, The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran – Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production, revisits the era of modernist art production in Iran from the 1950s to the 1970s. This book highlights that Iranian modernist art was a vibrant and culturally significant form of artistic expression. During this period, artists skillfully incorporated their visual […]

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  • 10 Nov 2023
    Jesse Spafford

    Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny

    My sophomore year of college, I stumbled across an anarchist forum while browsing the internet. I decided to take a few minutes to investigate, reflexively adopting the outlook of an anthropologist: I’d see what these political eccentrics had to say, learn about their subculture, and move along. So, you can imagine my shock when I […]

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  • 10 Nov 2023
    Guido Rings, Sebastian Rasinger

    The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Q&A with Sebastian Rasinger and Guido Rings

    Associate Professor Sebastian Rasinger and Professor Guido Rings, authors of The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication, discuss Intercultural Communication and their latest textbook What is Intercultural Communication? Is it about speaking to people from other countries? Yes – and no. Traditional approaches to intercultural communication predominantly focused on face-to-face interaction between people of different national […]

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  • 9 Nov 2023
    Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

    Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

    The wait is over! We are very excited to announce the publication of the latest edited volume in the Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Screen series, focusing on Romeo and Juliet! (Previous volumes in the series include Shakespeare on Screen: Othello; Shakespeare on Screen: The Tempest and Late Romances; and Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear.) […]

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  • 3 Nov 2023
    Ato Quayson, Ankhi Mukherjee

    Decolonizing the Literary Curriculum

    The word curriculum is derived from the Latin verb “currere,” meaning run, trot, gallop, hasten, speed, travel, or rapidly flow. The concept of the curriculum is a unique, almost self-cancelling aggregate of dynamism and stasis in that the running, trotting, galloping, speeding, and flowing of its root word happen along fixed pathways or ruts. The […]

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  • 2 Nov 2023
    Laura Aull

    You can’t write that…8 myths about correct English

    Picture a boxing ring, English on one side, diversity on the other, and you have a basic version of the history of written English in schools. English and diversity might otherwise be great friends, but they are continually pitted against one another in educational opportunity structures. In the 18th century, for example, the shift from […]

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  • 2 Nov 2023
    Tim Wharton, Louis de Saussure

    Emotion? We don’t talk about it!

    Few would deny that emotions are fundamental to what it means to be human. Indeed, according to some, emotions are what make us human. Given that, and given the fact that humans communicate about their emotional states a great deal, you might think that theories of language and communication would include comprehensive accounts of how […]

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