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  1. Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945

    Over the past two decades, historians of women's history have shown an increasing interest in the multiplicity of "feminisms" that have emerged globally. This fascinating collection brings together...

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  2. Published this week

    ARTS AND DESIGN- Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later WorksBy David Kaufmann, associate professor of English, George Mason University. University of California Press, £41.95 and £16.95. ISBN...

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  3. Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 1

    The attack on humanities research by Clive Bloom, emeritus professor of English and American studies at Middlesex University, is another curious act of self-harm by the university and very poorly...

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  4. Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 2

    Clive Bloom has never met an academic who "works nine to five, five days a week". Data summarised by Malcolm Tight in Higher Education Quarterly show that academics on average work 55 hours a week....

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  5. Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 3

    One must presume that Clive Bloom arrived at his epiphany regarding the economy with which humanities research can be undertaken only after benefiting from the "largesse" of Arts and Humanities...

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  6. Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 4

    Oh dear. Was this article really necessary? From someone at Middlesex as well? Mistimed and crashingly insensitive. (FYI, Professor, there is no "Provencal plainsong", but I'll happily apply for an...

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  7. No longer stuck on repeat

    "The historical present", Richard Overy's discussion of the future for academic history under the "impact" agenda (29 April), argues that the subject survives only because students want to study it,...

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  8. Practical acquisition 1

    I share Anthony Bushell's concern about the decline of modern languages in the UK ("Linguistic isolationism", 13 May). However, I do not subscribe to his view that it is the "great works of European...

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  9. Practical acquisition 2

    Perhaps somebody should tell Andrew Adams that the best way to learn a language is to be forced to use it ("Lost without translation", 29 April). Perhaps somebody should also tell him that in the "...

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  10. Hatred has its uses

    Dr Johnson once declared that he loved a good hater, but in "Drawing the venom from the poison pen of rancorous reviews" (13 May), Herminio Martins writes of the need for a code of practice in book...

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  11. Corporate types, keep out

    The academy faces a perfect storm. The spending cuts we are liable to face will be comparable to or worse than those in the 1980s. What makes this prospect so horrifying is the way that in the past...

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  12. The freedom code

    Your article "'Freedom to say anything to anyone' is not what we need" (6 May) failed to recognise the centrality of academic freedom to lecturers' roles as professionals, their contracts of...

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  13. Hardly inspiring confidence

    The Quality Assurance Agency, in a recently published report on Manchester Metropolitan University, declares that "confidence can reasonably be placed in the soundness of the institution's present...

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  14. Share the pain

    How many vice-chancellors are following the government's lead of a 5 per cent pay cut and a five-year pay freeze for senior administrators and professors? Surely this would be fairer than compulsory...

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  15. Pork your way up

    For those not yet ready to study for an MBA, perhaps the "Poppleton Pork Economics" degree ("PPE" for short) might be a suitable alternative? ("Our sausage is better than yours!", The Poppletonian,...

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