x

Yearly Archives: 2026

Fifteen Eighty Four

Menu

Number of articles per page:

  • 25 Mar 2026
    Franciscus Verellen

    Restoring Historical Remembrance

    At the height of its expansion, the Tang (618-907) stretched from Tajikistan to Manchuria. The breakup of this empire was a cataclysmic event with wide repercussions in China and beyond. To chart the Tang’s decline and fall, my new book adopts the perspective of Gao Pian (821-87), an illustrious general, military governor of large swaths […]

    Read More
  • 25 Mar 2026
    Diana Dumitru

    Beyond the “Black Years”: Jewish Life in Soviet Moldavia after the Holocaust

    When historians write about Jews in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s final years, the story is often framed almost entirely through repression. The destruction of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, the campaign against “cosmopolitans,” and the Doctors’ Plot have come to define what many scholars describe as the darkest chapter of Soviet Jewish history. My book, […]

    Read More
  • 25 Mar 2026
    Susilo Wibisono, Kiara Minto, Gi K. Chonu, Winnifred Louis

    Why are we so resistant to change?

    If change is necessary and beneficial, why is it sometimes so slow, and fiercely resisted? When and how do people, groups, and movements bring about system change?  These are the ideas we explore in our recent book from Cambridge University Press, The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change. Change is actively created and […]

    Read More
  • 23 Mar 2026
    Cover of Shared Morals
    Jae-Hee Jung

    Morality and Political Communication

    Political arguments often appeal to fundamental moral intuitions about right and wrong. Politicians highlight the moral basis of their views and positions. For example, in the context of the recent U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, Senator Steve Daines explicitly appealed to morals in his post on X saying that he “support[s] President Trump’s actions […]

    Read More
  • 20 Mar 2026
    Sarah Awad

    A just image

    We use images to immortalize precious moments, to document how we see the world and how others should see it, and to construct imaginations of how the world ought to be. In the book Seeing Matters, I examine the psychological influence of public images in shaping our thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions, and why it […]

    Read More
  • 19 Mar 2026
    Marco Giacalone

    Not a Robot Judge: What AI Is Really Doing to Civil Justice

    When people hear about artificial intelligence in justice, they often imagine a dystopian future in which a “robot judge” decides cases, replaces lawyers, and turns justice into a cold, automated process. That image is dramatic, but it is also misleading. What is actually happening is both more interesting and more important. AI is already beginning […]

    Read More
  • 19 Mar 2026
    Samantha Ege, Alexandra Kori Hill

    The Era of Florence Price

    Samantha Ege: The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price is the book I needed when I was a student. Cambridge Companions were always my go-to during my studies because they do such a brilliant job at guiding you through the life and music of a composer. But when I learned about Florence Price, there was […]

    Read More
  • 17 Mar 2026
    Kate Haworth, Tatiana Grieshofer

    Language, Justice and Conference Dinners

    This week we are celebrating the release of our brand new edited collection, ‘Language and Justice’. You may already have heard of the academic areas of ‘language and law’ and ‘forensic linguistics’, but we are capturing something a little different, reflecting new and exciting directions in the research. So let’s start by explaining what we […]

    Read More

Number of articles per page: