What are you reading? – 31 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practice, by Catherine Russell
Davina Quinlivan on how film-makers recycle images to reimagine the past and the future
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The Films of Mira Nair: Diaspora Vérité, by Amardeep Singh
A pioneering female film auteur receives a long overdue close-up in a book that will appeal to general readers and specialists alike, says Ashvin Devasundaram
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Books interview: Simon Morley
The author of Seven Keys to Modern Art on The Red Balloon, different Ways of Seeing and interpreting artistic works
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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War, by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers
Book of the week: the horrific mutilations of wartime provided fertile ground for research, writes Linda Maynard
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Universities must reform to be real educators
Far from being hotbeds of intellectual debate, universities enforce ideological conformity, follow rigid procedures and offer little that enthusiasts could not teach themselves. It is time for...
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Letters – 31 January 2019
Sector fails to self-regulate its ‘wicked issues’ The article on the Office for Students (“‘Quick with the rod’, but is the OfS up to the job?”, News, 24 January) identifies the inbuilt tension...
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Failure is healthy, but pressure to succeed makes it costly to mess up
The idea of mistakes being intrinsic to success has become an educational mantra – but for many students and academics, messing up is not an option
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REF 2021: funders let universities submit redundant staff’s work
Funding councils acknowledge that policy U-turn may have 'unintended consequences for individuals'
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William Lamont, 1934-2018
Tributes paid to historian who transformed our understanding of early modern England
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Interview with Robert-Jan Smits
The architect of Plan S tells of his next move to become a university leader in Eindhoven and discusses the art of not taking life too seriously
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Neighbour’s long shadow casts Hong Kong in sharp relief
While China’s intensification puts regional rivals in the shade, it casts a spotlight on progress in the special administrative region
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Precious cargo: archaeologist buys plane seat for Neanderthal
Christopher Hunt shared row with precious remains after granting of ‘passport’
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Call for sector guidelines on academic freedom on social media
Universities and scholars told to establish ‘the boundaries of acceptable speech’ as staff report meetings with managers over online activities
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The week in higher education – 31 January 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media