Tara Brabazon: Trade routes of the mind
Harold Innis was a professor at the same institution for decades – but while he remained steadfastly local and empirical, he probed the expansive variables of space and time. Tara Brabazon reveres...
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Major campaign aims to put King’s among the fundraising elite
King’s College London today launched the largest fundraising campaign of any UK university bar Oxbridge.
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Inside Higher Ed: Answering an uninvited preacher
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Downturn hits graduate employment
Graduate unemployment is at its highest level in 17 years, according to figures released today.
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South America is ready to tango with its academic partners
Bank breaks the ice as insular universities look abroad for collaboration. Paul Jump reports
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The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590-1640
"Sermon" is a word with an image problem. But then so is "lecture". During the week, I'm a lecturer; on Sundays I morph into an Anglican lay preacher. For a while, in both jobs I held the title of...
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The Canon: Howard Hawks by Robin Wood
No book in the entire field of film studies has had a greater impact on me than this one. Robin Wood's passionate and insightful analysis is the best possible companion to the films of the great...
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The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages
Despite the awkward translation, Helen Castor is moved by an absorbing study of medieval life
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European Governmentality: The Liberal Drift of Multilevel Governance
From the very beginning of European integration in the 1950s onwards, observers have disagreed about whether the process is driven by European states and adds to their power or, on the contrary, sets...
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Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive
Blog Theory brings the heavy guns of literary theory to bear on the purportedly trivial activity of blogging. The usual artillery is deployed - a bombardment of arguments from Slavoj Žižek and...
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Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
A sonic explorer gives Andrew Blake a new channel into the ambient soundscape and its effects on us
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The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910
Robin Feuer Miller on an admirable reassessment of the writer's strange and melodramatic death
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University of East Anglia - Online forge for wordsmiths
A renowned university creative-writing programme is joining forces with a literature development agency to launch a website to showcase new talent. The site, provisionally titled www.newwriting.net,...
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University of Brighton - House of future past rebuilt
A "house of the future" that captivated millions of television viewers is to be rebuilt on a university campus. In Channel 4's 2008 programme Grand Designs Live: The House That Kevin Built, the...
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University of Bradford - Spoonful of sugar isn't enough
Researchers from the UK and China are collaborating on a way to neutralise the unpleasant taste of medicines. Teams from the University of Bradford and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese...