Category: Guest Post

Women’s History Month: A Focus on Girls, Women and the Justice System

Women’s History Month: A Focus on Girls, Women and the Justice System

1 May 2021 Guest Post

Lisa Pasko University of Denver GUEST ENTRY, Women and Criminal Justice series   On International Women’s Day, I celebrated the occasion by attending a US law school panel about incarcerated women. Sharing the virtual room with law school students, legal advocates for prison reform and decarceration, and formerly incarcerated women,...

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The Canon of European Theater / Canone teatrale europeo

The Canon of European Theater / Canone teatrale europeo

9 October 2020 Guest Post

The guest author of this post is S. E. Gontarski. He is the editor of “On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” published in 2014, and the Series Editor of Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance. The idea of a literary canon is generally anathema to most Anglo-American scholars, at least since...

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Back to Normal?

Back to Normal?

24 August 2020 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Dr David Krieger and Dr Andréa Belliger, authors of the forthcoming title Hacking Digital Ethics. Under the title, “There will be no ‘back to normal” NESTA, the UK’s innovation think tank, published their views on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. They admit that speculations...

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Theatre and/as Adaptation

Theatre and/as Adaptation

19 August 2020 Guest Post

The guest author of this post is S. E. Gontarski. He is the editor of “On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” published in 2014, and the Series Editor of Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance. Although he was savvy enough to warn his French publisher of “this adaptation business” as requests...

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COVID-19, China and the New Cold War: Where to From Here?

COVID-19, China and the New Cold War: Where to From Here?

6 July 2020 Guest Post

The guest author of this post is Professor Giles Chance. He is the author of “China and the Credit Crisis: The Emergence of a New World Order” published in 2010. On January 13, I arrived in Beijing with my wife to stay with my father-in-law. He’s 94, single since his...

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A Critical Hope Is the Foundation to #BuildBackBetter

A Critical Hope Is the Foundation to #BuildBackBetter

25 June 2020 Guest Post

The guest authors of this post are Julian Dobson and Rowland Atkinson. They are the authors of Urban Crisis, Urban Hope out June 2020. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, the hashtag #BuildBackBetter became a rallying cry on social media for those who saw the need and opportunity to...

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A Lady’s Transnational Journey Beyond the Veil: Aesthetics of Female Health and Disease, Social Distancing & Transformative Healing

A Lady’s Transnational Journey Beyond the Veil: Aesthetics of Female Health and Disease, Social Distancing & Transformative Healing

4 June 2020 Guest Post

The guest author for this post is Maryam Farahani, She is a Research Associate at the University of Liverpool and co-editor of Psycho-Literary Perspectives in Multimodal Contexts. During the long nineteenth century, Western Orientalists designed intimate portraits of the East, informed by new aesthetic principles. William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), for instance, painted a...

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Reading Francis Hodgson Burnett in a Time of Pandemic

25 April 2020 Guest Post

The guest author for this post is Thomas Recchio. He is the author of The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett: In “The World of Actual Literature” out May 2020. As I was writing my study of the novels of Francis Hodgson Burnett, the impact of a pandemic on individual lives, and by extension...

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Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What That Is?

Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What That Is?

6 April 2020 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and General Editor, Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative. I finally found the right phrase to describe what city planning is, and what city planners do. Planners provide ideas, analyses and organized settings in which governance (i.e. collaborative...

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Personal Data Collection During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Takeaways for Global Health and Society

Personal Data Collection During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Takeaways for Global Health and Society

2 April 2020 Guest Post

The guest author for this post is Colette Mazzucelli. She is an Editor for the Anthem Press book series Ethics of Personal Data Collection Series alongside James Felton Keith, which publishes scholarly works at the intersection of data, ethics and digital technology in the 21st century. In a March 29, 2020 interview on...

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