Expert Comment
A Growing Global Appreciation for the Value of Compromise
A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick: "It is always interesting—and difficult—to consider global intellectual trends. They are few and can be nebulous, retailed by intellectuals from right or left who are sure that they have found a lasting solution to whatever they think ails the world...
Reading Galen in Byzantium… and beyond
A blog post by Dr Caroline Petit, Department of Classics and Ancient History, on how the Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher Galen was perceived in the middle ages and beyond.
A question about “you” and “I”.
A blog post by the Department of Philosophy's Guy Longworth: "Consider an utterance by me of (1), with “she” used to refer to some salient woman: (1) She thinks that I was drinking a martini earlier...
After 50 years, Eurocrats still aren’t sure what the CAP is for
Politics and International Studies Professor Wyn Grant tells The Conversation that "politicians should be brave enough to decide what the CAP is for...
Contact and Connections
Dr Charlotte Mathieson summarises the 2013 Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium:
"Although the papers were diverse in their topics of focus, if there was one theme that I found threaded throughout the day it was the sense that travel practices and narratives serve not so much to connect, but rather to destabilise categories of identity, places, narratives...