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How a Canadian ‘giraffologist’ stuck her neck out to fight sexism in academia

Anne Innis Dagg was the first person to study giraffes in the wild in Africa in the 1950’s and is now considered the world’s first ‘giraffologist’.

Anne Innis Dagg | 30 Jan 2019

Anouncement: New co-editor for Twentieth-Century Music

Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce the appointment of Alejandro L. Madrid as co-editor of Twentieth-Century Music, joining co-editor Pauline Fairclough from January 2019. Since 2013, Alejandro...

Holly Buttimore | 25 Jan 2019

Institutional Bypasses: the Construction of a Concept

This book has been in the making for a very long time. In 2011, a paper conceptualizing institutional bypasses was posted on SSRN and the first case study, on a bureaucratic reform in São Paulo (Poupatempo)...

Mariana Mota Prado | 23 Jan 2019

Teaching mathematics to physicists — can we do better?

It is interesting to reflect upon how physics – a science heavily dependent on the language of mathematics – trains its future generations in that discipline. The role of mathematics in physics has...

Alexander Altland, Jan von Delft | 21 Jan 2019

How can the Second Amendment inform US gun regulation?

An introduction to "The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller" by its authors Joseph Blocher & Darrell A.H. Miller.

Joseph Blocher, Darrell A.H. Miller | 17 Jan 2019

Shakespeare as Fan Fiction

“Shipping” (from “relationship”) is a phenomenon within the wider culture of fan fiction that places characters (or the actors who play them) from a particular cultural world into a romantic relationship....

Travis D. Williams | 16 Jan 2019

Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion

My inaugural, ghost-written speech to the Niha – learned rote and recited to massed tribesmen over a bloody carpet of pigmeat – ended with the resonant phrase, There is no resentment! It took...

Andrew Beatty | 16 Jan 2019

Human rights talk has obscured the devastating effects of counterterrorism

Since the dramatic events of September 11, 2001 which ushered in the “War on Terror”, there’s been a gradual change in how state officials, experts and international human rights advocates of various...

Jayson S. Lamchek | 15 Jan 2019

Campus Sexual Assault Shouldn’t be a Partisan Issue

In November 2018, the Department of Education released new proposed Title IX regulations, replacing Obama era guidance on how educational institutions should handle allegations of sexual assault and sexual...

Evan Gerstmann | 14 Jan 2019

The Bird Box and Jim Crow

It was reported that at least 45 million people watched the 2018 Netflix movie “Bird Box” in its first week. I was one of them (spoiler alert). The film focuses on a dystopian society in which a woman...

Sandra L. Barnes | 11 Jan 2019

Has the Left Killed Satire?

Writing a big book makes you wary of generalizations.  My new book, The Cambridge Introduction to Satire, discusses satire from Lysistrata to The Daily Show, and if there’s one thing I discovered in...

Jonathan Greenberg | 11 Jan 2019

Accelerated Times? From The Romans in Britain (1980) to the Millennium Bug

‘Have you ever been in a car crash? Unfortunately, unlike the car crash, time will not slow down for us. If anything, we’re accelerating toward disaster’[1] It was the question of whether or not...

Berthold Schoene, Eileen Pollard | 9 Jan 2019