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Caring for cultural heritage

The journey towards caring for cultural heritageI have been interested for many years in how the UK looks after cultural heritage by law and ethical principles. I came to adopt the framework of care,...

Charlotte Woodhead | 21 Nov 2023

Who is an Explorer?

              When the submersible Titan imploded on its descent to the wreckage of the Titanic this past June, its five victims...

Dane Kennedy | 20 Nov 2023

Hitler, the Hotel Guest

Luggage tag from the Hotel Kaiserhof, ca. 1910 In February 1931, two years before he became chancellor, Adolf Hitler checked in to Berlin’s Hotel Kaiserhof and made it his headquarters in the...

Adam Bisno | 17 Nov 2023

Beyond the Holiday Season: Gifts and the Atlantic Slave Trade

If you have been following the news in the past months, you may have read that Democrats in the United States reported that the White House under Donald Trump failed to report gifts received by the...

Ana Lucia Araujo | 16 Nov 2023

Plunging Crime Fiction into the Mediterranean Sea

My passion for crime fiction started very early, thanks to my aunt Andreina who was an avid reader of the genre. She had an extensive collection of “Gialli Mondadori”, a crime series published...

Barbara Pezzotti | 15 Nov 2023

Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier

Migration of the Serbs, by Serbian painter Paja Jovanović Security concerns often necessitate the establishment of specialized institutions in border regions that diverge from the norm in...

Bogdan G. Popescu | 15 Nov 2023

Thinking Empire with Leo Baeck

Leo Baeck arriving to La Guardia – ©Leo Baeck Institute New York White-bearded and dignified, Leo Baeck disembarked an airplane in New York’s La Guardia airport in January 1948. The seventy-four...

Yaniv Feller | 15 Nov 2023

Reflections on Parent Dependency in American Social Policy

Caring for aging parents is a reality that many people face, or will face, as their parents age and need more support and care. My book, Caring for Mom and Dad, analyzes public policies that either...

Susan Stein-Roggenbuck | 14 Nov 2023

The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran

My book, The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran – Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production, revisits the era of modernist art production in Iran from the 1950s to the 1970s. This book highlights that...

Katrin Nahidi | 13 Nov 2023

Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny

My sophomore year of college, I stumbled across an anarchist forum while browsing the internet. I decided to take a few minutes to investigate, reflexively adopting the outlook of an anthropologist:...

Jesse Spafford | 10 Nov 2023

The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Q&A with Sebastian Rasinger and Guido Rings

Associate Professor Sebastian Rasinger and Professor Guido Rings, authors of The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication, discuss Intercultural Communication and their latest textbook What...

Guido Rings, Sebastian Rasinger | 10 Nov 2023

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

The wait is over! We are very excited to announce the publication of the latest edited volume in the Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Screen series, focusing on Romeo and Juliet!...

Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin | 9 Nov 2023