Raising the tone
A university was the venue for an aerial concert by brass players from the Lancashire Sinfonietta. Five of the musicians donned hard hats and harnesses to scale the climbing wall at Lancaster...
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Unicorns and sex? Out of this world
Peer-reviewed scholarship takes on demons and ghosts. Matthew Reisz prepares for an encounter
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News in brief
Patent protectionEuropean plan threatens spin-offsHigh-tech spin-offs may find it more expensive to protect their inventions if proposals to create a single European patent go ahead, MPs have said....
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Scholar lost in desert of despair guided by beacon of hope to oasis
Matthew Reisz meets a refugee academic given new life, just like the one saved by THE readers' support
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News in brief
AustraliaTo boldly have another goA struggling university will undergo a "bold and exciting" restructure to boost its standing, according to its vice-chancellor. Peter Dawkins, head of Victoria...
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It is the East, and Rising Sun is the new object of affection
Jack Grove reports from Tokyo on De Montfort's canny cultural diplomacy
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHAnglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanitiesJoint applications for up to €40,000 each have now been...
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V-cs: useless or priceless?
Fred Inglis and Nicola Dandridge offer diametrically opposed views of the quality and value of the academy¡¯s leaders
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Stand up for shelf life
Badger your MP and kick up a fuss: London Met's treatment of the Women's Library must be challenged, argues June Purvis
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The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
Women are born to demand their share - just ask the hunter-gatherers, argues Camilla Power
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The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
Philip Robins on the Middle Eastern despots who held power for so long and lost it so rapidly
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Maps of Utopia: H.G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture
How much is society prepared to invest in the quality of the education it offers and to make it easily accessible to its entire population? What can and should art and literature do for the societies...
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Darkness Before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today
How hard life is for immigrants, exploited and robbed of their weekly wages by Neapolitans. What happens in a degraded economic area of Southern Italy when newcomers arrive illegally? The...
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All in a Don's Day
The chance to review a series of blogs on scholarly life was an offer Tom Palaima couldn't refuse
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Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany
"Licence to kill" - this was the message given to the German people during the era of the Third Reich by the two most morally authoritative groups in society, the churches and the universities,...