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The months since my investiture have been remarkable in a number of ways. First and foremost, the continuing pandemic has changed the way...

There are certain global issues that pay no attention to national borders or natural barriers: climate change; the COVID-19 pandemic;...

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1.5.167–68),...

When writing critically about the Russian avant-garde, one finds oneself inexorably drawn towards cosmism, as inexorably as the Earth...

Between December 1949 and February 1950, three shipments, carrying a total of 3,824 crates of artefacts and artworks from the Qing...

Many significant cultural objects have found uncomfortable homes in museums across the world.[1] They have been trapped behind glass,...

Introduction   Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled prediction algorithms create multiple challenges to existing ideas about human agency...

Abstract   In the wake of successive disappointing election performances by the UK Labour Party, commentators on the party’s centre-right...

Postcards have long been linked to memory formation, sold primarily as ‘souvenirs’, a term itself deriving from the French verb souvenir...

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was set up in 1948 following the 1942 Beveridge report, a cross-party report which established its...

Russell Barnes is a Director and Producer for the documentary production company ClearStory. Clare Burns has worked in television...

What does it mean to defend the dead? To tend to the Black dead and dying: to tend to the Black person, to Black people, always living in...

The origins and definition of the word ‘Americanitis’ are opaque at best. It is generally believed to have appeared in medical journals...

Introduction   Arendt’s account of modernity and The Human Condition  (1958)[1]   Opening the final section of The Human Condition...

Introduction   Canonical Penance in the early Church and the modern concept of prison, broadly construed, are both processes of...

In his seminal 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews , Raul Hilberg proposed a thesis that sought to explain a perceived lack of...

1   To become an administrative official in imperial China necessitated following a burdensome path from an early age. To begin with, a...

Well-known for her book  Bananas, Beaches and Bases , exposing the embedded systemic and institutionalised patriarchy that is evident not...

Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with...

The family is often presented as an opponent to the state as the location of power, or as an alternative to state institutions. The 2004...

Manuel Rabaté is Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi. He has taught Arts & Cultural Management at Paris-Dauphine University and Paris-Sorbonne...

It didn’t take long for the backlash against last summer’s enthralling ESPN Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance  to arrive. Before...

1. Introduction Music theory is white. —Philip Ewell Thus begins Philip Ewell’s article ‘Music Theory and the White Racial Frame’.[1] His...

Fig 1. Returning (detail of SYNTERESE (Father Demosthenes Demosthenous 2020, mosaic)). Akropoli-Strovolos. Courtesy of Father Demosthenes...