Podcast

In this podcast, Prof. Emile Schrijver discusses the Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures Online, how the encyclopedia promotes the field of Jewish Book Studies, and reflects on the challenges and opportunities of editing an online-first encyclopedia.

Guest Post

In this blogpost, Lara Khattab highlights some of the issues pertaining to class mobilization, organizing and alliance building.

Podcast

In this new episode, Anthony John Spalinger, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland, paints a captivating picture of the pharaoh court, based on his work.

Guest Post

In this guest post, Eleonora Cattafi talks about the value of academic contributions to sites for the broader public like Wikipedia.

Video

In this interview, Patrick Cockburn talks to Peter O’Connor about Claud Cockburn’s upbringing in China, Korea and central Europe, about the circumstances prompting the publication of The Week, and, most tellingly, on the resistance put up by political and media elites, in particular the ‘Cliveden Set,’ to Claud Cockburn’s astonishingly well-informed upstart newsletter.

Podcast

In the third episode of our new themed series 'Survival by Degrees', Prof. Nilufer Oral takes a closer look at the place of gender in relation to climate change and oceans, in the context of her work Climate Change, Oceans and Gender.

Interview

To continue with our interviews celebrating the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Online, we sat down with Associate Editors Suleyman Dost (University of Toronto) and Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster University) to discuss their role in the Encyclopaedia and the new directions it will take.

Interview

In this podcast produced by New Books Network, Mark Somos and Anne Peters discuss their book The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea

Guest Post

Peter Csendes und Ferdinand Opll geben einen Einblick in die mittelalterliche Stadtgeschichte von Wien. Unterschiedliche Zugänge helfen zu verstehen, wie Wien zu der Stadt wurde, die wir heute kennen.

Guest Post

Zum Abschluss ihres C.O.R.O.N.A.-Selbstcoachings zieht eine Christa H. Herold eine persönliche Bilanz der Pandemie und der durch sie gegebenen Denkanstöße zu Veränderung und Perspektivwechsel. Ihr Fazit: Auf geht’s!