Injustice to Global Justice
In my book Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account, I address questions such as: What is global justice? What responsibilities might we have to bring about a more globally just world? What can...
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Ancient concerns 2
Thomas Docherty bewails the dominance of "business" in higher education ("Being a humble servant to business will be a disaster for everyone", 4 June).John of Salisbury (died 1180) wrote: "If you are...
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Ancient concerns 1
Thomas Docherty writes: "As Freud may have asked in our time ... ". I suppose he must mean Clement, since Sigmund was in no position to have asked anything "in our time".Julian Bradfield, University...
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Vowel foul
Leslie Norins is exercised by the "crude sexism" of your headline "Grants and pants ..." (21 May), but hailing from south of Watford, I am just as concerned about the subtle inferential assumption...
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From where I sit - Literature in the wall's shadow
Five minutes before the scheduled start of the Palestinian Festival of Literature late last month, armed Israeli police entered the crowded Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem and closed it...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersFred Inglis is emeritus professor of cultural studies, University of Sheffield. He is reading Jeremy Mynott's "new and gripping" book,...
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Leader: Into the arms of Mammon
The DIUS is no more, the latest sign of the Government's narrow focus on business interests at the academy's expense
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1588 and all that
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto punctures a few national illusions
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University of Edinburgh - Come blow your Lituus
Software developed by a University of Edinburgh PhD student will enable a long-lost trumpet-like instrument favoured by Johann Sebastian Bach to sound once more. The creation will allow one of Bach's...
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University of Leeds - Now then, Jim fixes it again
Sir Jimmy Savile, the former Radio 1 DJ best known for his television show Jim'll Fix It, has pledged up to £300,000 to support aspiring medical researchers at the University of Leeds. Sir Jimmy has...
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Cardiff University - This slug has no need for lettuce
A flesh-eating slug discovered by scientists at Cardiff University has been named by New Scientist magazine as one of the ten strangest species identified in recent years. Bill Symondson, faculty...
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University College London - Legacy of bondage
The debt owed by modern Britain to slavery is to be investigated by historians at University College London. The team aims to create the first encyclopaedia of British slave owners, an online...
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University of Greenwich - Pied piper of Chittagong
An explosion in Bangladesh's rat population will be tackled by a scientist based at the University of Greenwich. Steve Belmain, an applied ecologist in the university's Natural Resources Institute,...
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University of East Anglia - Basket cases
Basketry, one of the oldest forms of human technology, is the focus of a major research project at the University of East Anglia. The two-and-a-half-year programme, nicknamed "Beyond the Basket",...
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Newman University College - We must talk
A unique masters qualification promoting better communication between adults working with children and young people has been launched by Newman University College, Birmingham. Hilary Dunphy,...