Author Interview

The Gothic Western on Screen

This is an author interview by Keith McDonald and Wayne Johnson, authors of The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic and the Western Film   Q1. What was the importance of writing this book now? The Western has always been cyclical in terms of its popularity and the ways that it responds to socio/political/cultural tensions. […]

Guest Post

Mourning the Dissolution of the Monasteries

This is a guest post by Lisa Hopkins, author of Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays When Shakespeare writes in Sonnet 73 of ‘Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang’, he was referring to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, begun in 1536 by King Henry VIII as part of […]

Guest Post

Why did Russell abandon his 1913 Theory of Knowledge manuscript?

This is a guest post by James R. Connelly, author of Wittgenstein’s Critique of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement In May–June 1913, Bertrand Russell wrote roughly 350 pages of a draft manuscript provisionally titled Theory of Knowledge. His goal was to apply logical methods developed in Principia Mathematica to problems in the epistemology of […]

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A Strong, Stable and Prosperous Africa Benefits the Entire World

A Strong, Stable and Prosperous Africa Benefits the Entire World

This is a guest post by Loic De Canniere, author of The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare In 2025, eleven of the world’s twenty fastest-growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa – including South Sudan and Senegal, which both rank in the top five. Since 2010, Africa’s representation among high-growth economies […]

Author Interview

Engaging the Citizenry

This is an interview with Sarah Murray and Lachlan Umbers, editors of Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy What inspired this edited collection on Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy? Australian democracy depends fundamentally upon an active, engaged citizenry. In this respect, however, Australian democracy appears to be in decline. The percentage of citizens on the electoral […]

Author Interview

The Silent Scene of Reading: Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience

The Silent Scene of Reading: Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience

Nathan Wainstein interviews Bryan Counter, author of Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience Nathan Wainstein: At the outset of the book, you say that it ‘will approach aesthetic experience with a focus on life’. I find this interest in immediate or actual life, as opposed to the more curated encounters that we have with individual artworks, […]

Guest Post

Tackling the Challenges of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Tackling the Challenges of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long and Joseph A. Pisani, authors of The Responsibility of Reason in Leadership, Management, and Life Long Learning Emotions affect stakeholders throughout an organisation. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes an important skill for success in our current workplace landscape. There has been a greater […]