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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...

Katrin Nahidi | 13 Nov 2023

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:...

Jesse Spafford | 10 Nov 2023

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...

Guido Rings, Sebastian Rasinger | 10 Nov 2023

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!...

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

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...

Ankhi Mukherjee, Ato Quayson | 3 Nov 2023

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...

Laura Aull | 2 Nov 2023

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...

Tim Wharton, Louis de Saussure | 2 Nov 2023

Economic Immigrants and Refugees in Late Medieval England

In 1353, a fuller from Bruges, Walter Collessad appeared twice in the borough court of Great Yarmouth. On 25 March, he was sued for an unspecified debt by a weaver from Bruges, Peter van Skelle and then...

Milan Pajic | 1 Nov 2023

England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland

We say – and rightly – that we need to learn our histories. ‘Not knowing each other’s stories’, as David Olusoga has recently said in the Guardian, is a ‘weakness’ in Britain, not least...

Lorna Hutson | 31 Oct 2023

The Question of the Meaning of Life: Philosophy and Judaism

The question of the meaning of life is a modern question. This claim may elicit surprise. After all, didn’t ancient and medieval people, especially religious people, believe that they had answers to...

Alan L. Mittleman | 30 Oct 2023

What is democratic perfectionism?

American philosopher Stanley Cavell is read widely across the humanities and social sciences, yet his work has not received much uptake in the field of political philosophy. My new book Stanley...

Jonathan Havercroft | 30 Oct 2023

How Narrative Politics Shapes American Military Might

The end of the Cold War heralded a substantial ‘peace dividend’ during the 1990s, a series of large cuts in defense spending by the United States, the world’s sole remaining military superpower....

Alexandra Homolar | 27 Oct 2023