What are you reading? – 28 February 2019
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Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich, by Christopher Clark
Hester Vaizey on how regimes employed different temporal signatures to legitimate their authority
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From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences, by Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen
Simon Underdown on a call for the discipline to reclaim its maverick heritage to rejuvenate itself and tackle dynamic real-world problems
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New and noteworthy – 28 February 2019
Follow the climate change leaders; navigate freedom’s tricky path; grok Robert A. Heinlein; and stand with scientists, students and society
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Australia and Asia: the academic foreign exchange
John Ross examines the state of cross-study and collaboration between Australia and its neighbours in the East
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Knowledge exchange: how should universities engage with business?
The UK’s new knowledge exchange framework, whose proposed metrics were unveiled last month, has raised more questions over relationships between universities and business. David Secher and Surya...
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The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present, by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Book of the week: Fears that something fascist-like will rise again permeate the moment, writes Robert Eaglestone
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Australia ‘missing’ the education impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative
Universities ‘not well served’ by federal government’s approach to BRI, Universities Australia conference hears
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The week in higher education – 28 February 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Tight times ahead for Australian teaching budget, politicians suggest
Continued funding squeeze appears inevitable as major parties’ policies trickle out at UA conference
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Interview with Bart van Es
The Oxford professor and Costa Book of the Year award-winner on bringing a Holocaust survivor’s story into the present through ‘documentary novelisation’
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Katharina Lindner, 1979-2019
Tributes paid to footballer turned queer theorist
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Pay ratio publication may fuel outsourcing drive, v-c warns
David Green says exposing pay disparities within universities may encourage removing lower-paid staff from direct payroll
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Sussex v-c: ‘dramatic change’ needed to tackle bullying culture
Adam Tickell acknowledges university has ‘failed’ staff and students in the past but says improving well-being is his top priority
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order, by J. C. Sharman
Sarah Kinkel enjoys a refutation of the theory that Europe’s dominance was a result of military might