By Linda Ngari
"Women often don’t sue because they don’t actually know that the law can protect them ... because of the stigma around it, and the fact that people have normalised cyberbullying ..."
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
In the court of public opinion, Anthony Albanese’s rejection of the up-yours attitude of the man he labels an arrogant egotistical billionaire is Likely to resonate with many Australians.
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By Gemma Ware, Head of Audio
Thabo Leshilo, Politics + Society
The third and final part of our series What happened to Nelson Mandela’s South Africa on The Conversation Weekly podcast. Featuring interviews with Sithembile Mbete and Richard Calland.
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By Sean Irving, Senior Research Officer, University of Essex
“Tennis is a relationship,” says Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) in director Luca Guadagnino’s new film Challengers. However, this relationship is not simply between the game and the player. Rather the heart of tennis, and perhaps of all competition, is a three-way relationship between two contestants and a third person. Their presence, and observation, is what gives competition its intensity.
Challengers fuses sex and sport in a straightforward but effective way. Early on, at a junior tournament, we see friends Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) and Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor) fall in lust with…
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By Becky Alexis-Martin, Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford
Champagne corks popped on December 3 1989 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president George H.W. Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the cold war.
Gorbachev and Bush’s predecessor in the White House, Ronald Reagan, had – at two summits over the past five years – thrashed out agreements that would limit and reduce both sides’ nuclear arsenals. With the cold war over, Gorbachev liberalised the Soviet Union, presiding over its dismantling,…
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By Elizabeth Simon, Postdoctoral Researcher in British Politics, Queen Mary University of London
Farah Hussain, PhD Candidate, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
Polls have consistently shown that the incumbent mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, appears to be on track to win a third term in office at the upcoming mayoral elections on May 2.
One poll we commissioned as part of our Polling…
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By John Pierce O'Reilly, Researcher in Music, University of Oxford
In April 2004, Wiley released his debut album Treddin’ on Thin Ice. The MC’s first full-length project after years of releasing tracks and performing at raves and on pirate radio, Treddin’ on Thin Ice is undoubtedly a foundational part of grime’s history.
The album not only delineates and establishes grime’s distinctive sound at the turn of the century, it also represents a key work through and against which subsequent grime artists have continued to define and develop the genre.
For British author Jeffrey…
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By Michael Cheng, Dean of hospitality management, Florida International University
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.
Title of course:
“The David Grutman Experience”
What prompted the idea for the course?
The first time David Grutman, a Miami businessman who runs a growing hospitality…
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By Sarah Florini, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University
TikTok is hardly a model social media platform, but it’s also far from an outlier when it comes to threats to Americans.
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By Doug Cowen, Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created during the Big Bang, these “relic” neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe, but they can’t harm you. In fact, only one of them is likely to lightly tap an atom in your body in your entire lifetime.
Most neutrinos produced by objects such as black holes have much more energy than the…
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