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The Extraordinary History of World Cities

This is an urban age. The concept of “world cities” and the cross-border networks that animate them inspired a wave of interdisciplinary research. Megaregions like New York, Lagos, Mexico City, and...

Joshua K. Leon | 4 Feb 2025

Bidding farewell to Kant’s ‘murderer at the door’

Kant’s 1797 essay “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity” has done more than any of his other works to scare students off his moral theory. Interpreters have little time for it. They...

Jens Timmermann | 4 Feb 2025

Recovering an ancient scientific culture: The case of the Roman artes

One of the most significant legacies of Greek and Roman antiquity is the vast body of scientific and technical writings which, copied and transmitted across the centuries, has exerted a profound influence...

James L. Zainaldin | 31 Jan 2025

Noah the Environmentalist and the Flood

For the last two thousand years and more, the story of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis has been thought of as an historical account of what happened around 2,500 BCE, some 1,500 years after...

Philip C Almond | 31 Jan 2025

Brand Ownership in the Cultural Landscape

Branding, personal branding, corporate branding; everyone must brand themselves today in order to be seen and to take part in the continual construction of their identity in the spaces in which they exist...

Miriam J. Johnson | 30 Jan 2025

Shifting Currents: Navigating Energy Transitions Policy for Security and Defence?

We have seen a relatively rapid progress of the energy transition in recent years, with increased adoption of wind and solar power, electrification of heating and transport as well as an amplification...

Paula Kivimaa | 30 Jan 2025

Anthropology and Tax. Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations

Anthropology and tax might not appear to fit together at first sight. Taxation is often considered a highly technical and numerical subject, more suitable for lawyers, accountants and economists than...

Johanna Mugler, Robin Smith, Miranda Sheild Johansson | 30 Jan 2025

THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AT SARDIS.  Hellenistic Temple Traditions in Asia Minor

Nestled beneath the “pointed peaks” of the legendary Tmolos Mountains in Turkey, the Temple and Sanctuary of Artemis at Sardis is one of the most impressive monuments of classical antiquity. Dating...

Fikret Yegül, Diane Favro | 30 Jan 2025

“You Can Tell It’s a Translation”

Feminist philosopher and activist María Lugones described dancing the tango as an act of mutual intention – “I ask, intimate, propose; you respond.”  I find that her co-constructed tango practice...

Jean Graham-Jones | 30 Jan 2025

The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

We are pleased and excited about our just-published coedited book, The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. In our introduction (available in full on the Cambridge University Press book page),...

Russ Castronovo, Robert S. Levine | 29 Jan 2025

Vanishing Legal Justice: The Changing Role of Judges in an Era of Settlements and Plea Bargains

London: Judge: I offer congratulations. No one can be more pleased than me. It’s always better that the parties settle themselves. Do you want a Tomlin order [a form for a confidential written...

Dr. Nofit Amir, Michal Alberstein | 27 Jan 2025

Creating Better Universities for Everyone

“Improving”, “getting better”,” making a difference”, all are common refrains when university leaders talk about the goals of their institution. We hear versions of these phrases in conversation...

Matthew Hartley, Alan Ruby | 24 Jan 2025