Campus round-up - 28 February 2013
Fitting imageWhen Will Brooker, head of the film and television department at Kingston University, visited a comic shop recently, he “felt very alienated by the way female characters are all pin-ups...
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THE Scholarly Web - 28 February 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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From Where I Sit - Adapt, survive and thrive
Growing up in Australia in the 1950s, I was often asked what I would do when I left school. As a child who lived and worked on a grape and orange farm that my family had created in the middle of...
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Appointments - 28 February 2013
Charles Sturt UniversityTim WessThe new executive dean of the faculty of science at Charles Sturt University in Australia, Tim Wess, said that in addition to the excitement and delight of a new job,...
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Hamid Ghodse, 1938-2012
A leading international authority on substance abuse and drug addiction, known for the compassion he showed towards the afflicted, has died.
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John Gilbey, Paul Greatrix, David Kennedy, Sharon Ruston and Peter J. Smith...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images by Edward Dimendberg
This survey of the work of an innovative practice leaves Flora Samuel wishing for about places, plans and politics
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In Search of a Concrete Music by Pierre Schaeffer
David Revill on the creator of an unconventional musical genre
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News in brief
MoocsMore massive and multilingual tooTwo leading US massive open online course providers have each almost doubled the number of universities offering courses on their respective platforms. Coursera...
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Odds and quads - 28 February 2013
This suitcase, filled with memorabilia from the First World War, was recently found in a cupboard in the University of Abertay Dundee’s psychology department.It turned out to have belonged to a nurse...
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Grant winners - 28 February 2013
Economic and Social Research CouncilFuture Research Leaders SchemeAward winner: Vanesa Castan BrotoInstitution: University College LondonValue: £171,459Mapping urban energy landscapes in the global...
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21 - 28 February 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Richard Bosworth on a ‘celebrity’ role model for Mussolini’s Fascism
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Hikikomori: Adolescence without End by Tamaki Saito
Atsushi Senju discusses the strange case of Japanese ‘social withdrawal’
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Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking by E. Gabriella Coleman
John Gilbey on how the geeks inherited cyberspace