Why live lecturing benefits from ‘fear’
English literature scholar and teacher Eileen Pollard reveals ways to engage students in lectures
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Defence of the humanities draws applause
Scholars laud Sarah Churchwell’s ÌÇÐÄVlog essay restating value of arts and humanities disciplines
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Manakamana, directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
Footage shot in a cable car carrying pilgrims to a Nepalese temple makes for profoundly moving cinema, writes Duncan Wu
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Chris Barton, Kathryn Ecclestone, Michael King, A. W. Purdue and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale, by Marina Warner
A potent study revisits familiar territory and gives new insights into tales for children, finds Shahidha Bari
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Berkeley’s Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us?, by John Campbell and Quassim Cassam
Jane O’Grady on a debate between two philosophers, who offer elegant ‘solutions’
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The Meaning of Human Existence, by Edward O. Wilson
The folksy charm of these essays threatens to detract from the main argument, says Simon Underdown
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Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International, by Frances Stracey
Alex Danchev considers a history of a small but influential group of cultural ‘hijackers’
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Little Vast Rooms of Undoing: Exploring Identity and Embodiment through Public Toilet Spaces, by Dara Blumenthal
An examination of our bathroom habits is a little…constipated, finds Peter J. Smith
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Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age, by Robert Pogue Harrison
Fred Inglis salutes a big-hearted exploration of society’s obsession with youthfulness
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4 December 2014
Weathering the storm - What does turmoil at Plymouth mean for the future of university governance?
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Competition tests researchers’ ethics, council finds
Work by Nuffield Council on Bioethics reveals pressure on researchers to compromise on integrity and mistrust of the REF
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Q&A with Catherine Stihler
We speak to only the second woman to have held the post of rector of the University of St Andrews
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Where all the stage is a world for scholars to explore
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe offers researchers insights into how Jacobean plays were received
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Arts courses face shutdown at Falmouth University
Contemporary crafts, theatre studies and a digital media programme are set to be axed