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Make Strange Familiar Evidence

In this book, Cathy Willermet and Sang-Hee Lee reflect that the “steadfast obsession with the scientific approach that characterized biological anthropology, like no other subfield in American anthropology, is in fact a response to mask the dark history surrounding its birth”.

Cathy Willermet, Sang-Hee Lee | 16 Dec 2019

Shuri Castle and Controversial Heritage in Japan

On 31 October, 2019, a massive fire tore through the UNESCO World Heritage site of Shuri Castle in Okinawa, sparking a global reaction and comparisons with the devastating fire at Notre Dame, another World...

Oleg Benesch, Ran Zwigenberg | 16 Dec 2019

Milton and the Burden of Freedom

What I’ve found in teaching Milton is that an author, whom students at first think of as inaccessible, because his poems are full of Biblical and classical references, familiar to his initial readers...

Warren Chernaik | 13 Dec 2019

Barn Owls: Evolution and Ecology – Why has the barn owl been so successful in colonising the planet?

Why were these 17 species such successful colonisers in contrast to most other birds? Most cosmopolitan birds exploit water environments and because there is water everywhere, with continents surrounded...

Alexandre Roulin | 13 Dec 2019

Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

As Artificial Intelligence is increasingly used by companies in their hiring processes, as well as other HR duties, Rick Bales looks into what consequences this may have on wider employment law, and for the individual worker.

Rick Bales | 10 Dec 2019

Why Does the Law Obligate?

How can the edicts of a sovereign power—monarch, democratic assembly, or other institutional arrangements—succeed to engender obligations for a multitude of subjects, most of whom hardly know (let alone approve of) the contents of such edicts? Stefano Bertea investigates.

Stefano Bertea | 10 Dec 2019

William Shakespeare and Cambridge University Press: A History

William Shakespeare was born just thirty years after the founding of Cambridge University Press, yet it was another three hundred years before the Press started printing his works. Since then, we have...

9 Dec 2019

Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs

Why have medieval archaeologists failed to reflect critically on the sacred?  The answer may lie in archaeology’s prevailing intellectual tradition, which promotes a humanist or secular position, even...

Roberta Gilchrist | 5 Dec 2019

Shakespeare the Stranger, Our Contemporary

This book would probably not have been written if, as a postgraduate, I had not left Cambridge for my first job as assistant lecturer at the University of Geneva, and then, once I had met my (French)...

Margaret Tudeau-Clayton | 5 Dec 2019

Author Q&A – Randall Abate

Randall Abate talks to us about his new book, Climate Change and the Voiceless, and how the law can protect those most vulnerable to the effects of Climate Change.

Randall S. Abate - 1 | 4 Dec 2019

Arendt on the Political: An Interview with David Arndt

Let’s start with a simple question.  What is your book about? It’s on the question: What is politics? What defines the political sphere? How is politics different from economics, law, morality, religion,...

David Arndt | 29 Nov 2019

Social Polarization: Neither Hopeless nor Inevitable

“Our nation is being torn apart; truth is questioned.” Dr. Fiona Hill, former official at the U.S. National Security Council, in testimony given to the congressional inquiry into presidential impeachment,...

Jon F. Wergin | 27 Nov 2019