This is a guest post by Jonathan Gross, author of The European Byron Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Chameleon Although there have been many studies of Byron’s European impact, I consider the Eastern European reach of Byron. Mazepa, a painting by Vernet (‘Mazepa and the Wolves’, 1826), and another study, by a British painter John Frederick Herring, […]

This is a guest post by Duncan McDuie-Ra, author of Insurgent Play: Social Worlds of Urban Disruption   Play is intrinsic to human existence and to some non-human animals too. We can think of play in different ways; as creative and destructive, as individual and collective, as production and consumption, as organised and spontaneous, as […]

This is a guest post by Lynette Reid, editor of Political Authority: Contract and Critique   I was a student (along with Olli Lagerspetz and others) of the British philosopher Peter Winch (1926–1997) in the last years of his life – the 1990s in Illinois. This was an era when American universities benefited from the […]

This is a guest post by Glenn Fosbraey, author of Reading Song Lyrics: An Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Approach In today’s world, where streaming services allow us instant access to pretty much every song ever recorded, I like to keep certain ‘hard copy’ traditions alive. One of these, which stretches back nearly 30 years, is to […]

This is a guest post by Ulf Hedetoft, author of The Morality of Politics: States, Honour and War   Today everyone is a moralist. Citizens as well as politicians routinely draw lines between good and bad, between who they side with and who they regard as enemies. They know – or at least feel – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]