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  • 22 Sep 2022
    Austin Glatthorn

    Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire

    When I lived in Germany, I was spoilt by choice so far as opera was concerned.  I was in an area that had three large theatres separated by two rivers and all very close to one another.  I certainly wasn’t alone in having such great access to music and theatre, as Germany has more theatres […]

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  • 8 Sep 2022
    Patricia Blessing

    Why Ottoman Architecture? A Research Journey

    Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire stems from my research on Ottoman architecture, which I began in summer 2014, shortly before the publication of my first book, Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest. That book addresses buildings located in Turkey, which were built for Muslim patrons in the second half of the […]

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  • 1 Sep 2022
    Bruce Clarke, Sébastien Dutreuil

    The Scientific Collaboration that Brought Gaia to the World

    With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional literature.

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  • 19 Aug 2022
    Merry Wiesner-Hanks

    What’s New in Early Modern Europe Third Edition

    Writing a new edition is always challenging, as there is always exciting new scholarship to incorporate and completely new directions and sub-fields to include. And then deciding what to cut, so the book does not become an unwieldy doorstop… The most important change I’ve made in the third edition of Early Modern Europe is to […]

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  • 19 Aug 2022
    Ghassan Moazzin

    Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China

    If one visits Shanghai’s iconic waterfront known as the Bund (or Waitan in Chinese) today, one immediately notices the many historical buildings that line the western side of the Huangpu River. Remnants of Shanghai’s former foreign-controlled International Settlement, between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries many of these buildings were erected and occupied by the leading […]

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  • 12 Aug 2022
    Sarah F. Derbew

    A Revamped Archaeology of Blackness

    The discipline of Classics stands at a curious crossroads. While some of its advocates resist conflating the ancient Greco-Roman world with the twenty-first century, others weaponize Greco-Roman antiquity for modern gain. The latter stance becomes especially contentious when discussions of skin color enter the fray. Intent on correcting myopic perspectives, I foreground dynamic iterations of […]

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  • 8 Aug 2022
    Emily Joan Ward

    Ruling Children: Boy Kings in Medieval Europe

    The succession of a child king was a relatively common occurrence across medieval Europe, but kingship is still usually studied from an adult-focused perspective which sees boy rulers as paradoxes or unimportant pawns. Royal Childhood and Child Kingship seeks to uncouple conceptions of rulership between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries from the automatic and exclusive […]

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  • 1 Aug 2022
    Susan R. Grayzel

    The Age of the Gas Mask

    We are living in a global age of masks.  The face coverings that many of us have worn since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic range from medical-grade PPE to handsewn cloth to expensive designer-branded fabric. Masks went from being hard to find in the spring of 2020 to nearly ubiquitous two years later.  Some […]

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