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Guilty or Not Guilty? Defining the Boundaries of Liability in International Criminal Law

Ever since the establishment of the Nuremberg tribunal following the end of the Second World War, the trials against alleged perpetrators of mass atrocities have captured the imagination of the global...

Liana Georgieva Minkova | 7 Feb 2023

Data science and human-environment systems

Does data science help or hinder how we respond to the incredible transformation of the earth’s social and environmental systems? Answering this question is vitally important because we live in times...

Steven M. Manson | 7 Feb 2023

”In a way I am now rediscovering myself”

Illuminating how narrative identity is damaged by mental illness and involved in personal recovery Mary, a 42-years old woman with severe depression, shared the following in a life story interview: “I...

Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, Tine Holm, Rikke Jensen, Majse Lind, Anne Mai Pedersen | 7 Feb 2023

How to Write the History of Serbia at the Crossroads of the National, the Regional and the Global

Serbia has been involved in events which have shaped the modern world – most notably in 1914 and during the Cold War and the 1990s Yugoslav wars – yet its history remains little known. In my new book,...

Dejan Djokić | 7 Feb 2023

The New Speaker Phenomenon

Today many European minority language communities are undergoing profound changes, in part as a result of globalisation, increased mobility and accelerating socio-economic fragmentation within heartland...

Colin H. Williams | 7 Feb 2023

Moving Gods: Isis’ Journey to Greece in the Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was constantly in motion. People, products, and ideas crisscrossed the Mediterranean at what must have seemed like lightning speed. One of these ideas was the worship of the Egyptian...

Lindsey A. Mazurek | 3 Feb 2023

Dissection in Classical Antiquity

Do you think with your heart or with your head? Far from a metaphorical question, this debate roiled ancient medicine at a very literal level. The topic of where, precisely, the soul interfaced with the...

Claire Bubb | 2 Feb 2023

Shakespeare and Beckett

“The fact is that we create our own precursors“, writes Jorge Luis Borges in „Kafka and his Precursors“ where he reflects on the anachronistic dynamics which results from the interaction of...

Claudia Olk | 1 Feb 2023

When Minoritized Languages Change Linguistic Theory

Q: Let’s start with the title of your book. Why use the term minoritized languages? A: It’s a question of emphasis: there is nothing intrinsically “minor” about the languages (or even...

Andrew Nevins | 1 Feb 2023

When was an embryo considered a person in the Middle Ages?

The present position of the Roman Catholic Church is that an immortal soul is infused into the fetus at the moment of conception, but this has not always been its position. The dogma that “ensoulment”...

Olivia Holmes | 31 Jan 2023

Actors in the lobby: How an artists’ association influenced imperial decision-making

This narrative is based on inscriptions dealing with the so-called thymelic synod, the ‘international’ artists’ association of the Roman empire. This association defended the professional interests...

Bram Fauconnier | 30 Jan 2023

Linguistics meets Philosophy

All scientific fields were born from philosophy. And most were born a long time ago. So long ago that conversations between the philosophic ‘parent’ and the scientific ‘child’...

Daniel Altshuler | 30 Jan 2023