New and noteworthy – 2 May 2019
Ottoman inspiration; natural head-turners; a southern city’s racial evolution; and insiders moved to call out misconduct
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Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment, by Juliana Spahr
Jess Cotton is not totally convinced by an account of the links between literature and state funding and nationalism
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The state of the discipline: English studies
English studies is a traditional big beast in the academy, but there are concerns that changes in student behaviour could put it on the endangered list. Seven academics give their views on whether...
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Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture, by Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose, and Jessalynn Keller
Emma Rees celebrates a new generation of online feminist campaigners
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Letters – 2 May 2019
Student housing needs solutions not posturing In his defence of private student accommodation providers (“Ways the Augar review could tackle student housing”, Opinion, 27 April, www....
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THE to host first summit in Japan
Asia Universities Summit 2020 will take place in partnership with Fujita Health University in Nagoya
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Tsinghua head: prize students who challenge classroom ‘authority’
University’s emphasis on creativity, not exam scores, aims to help shift China away from ‘degree factory’ model, THE summit hears
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Chinese family ‘paid $6.5 million to get daughter into Stanford’
Biggest payment in admission fraud linked to Yusi Zhao, also known as Molly
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The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art, by Tom McLeish
Book of the week: Rivka Isaacson reflects on the ‘aphrodisiac’ effect of crossing disciplines
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Interview with Sital Dhillon
The Sheffield Hallam professor and human rights barrister talks about growing up in an immigrant family, his work for Nelson Mandela and helping to thwart the impact of a terror attack
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Kate Marsh, 1974-2019
Tributes paid to leading scholar of French colonial history
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Engage with climate deniers and anti-vaxxers, says science chief
Peter Gluckman, president-elect of the International Science Council, says ‘Dr Google’ poses a bigger threat to evidence-based policymaking than populist politicians
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Renowned trio lose out in Russell Group student recruitment race
Shrinking enrolments at Southampton, Manchester and Sheffield suggest English elite are not immune to pressures of marketisation
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Scholar takes students’ phones and makes them read for four hours
David Peña-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’