By Rebecca Sullivan, Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
Feminist scholar Rebecca Sullivan says meeting Gloria Steinem was a highlight of her career. Here, she reflects on everything she gave us, but also how she may have overshadowed other feminists.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Former trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, following a verdict at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong, November 25, 2022. © 2022 Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images Organizing a group to help people in distress used to be something Hong Kong people could do without fear. Not anymore.On September 3, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal affirmed the conviction of five 612 Humanitarian Fund trustees for failing to register the fund under the Societies Ordinance. It’s just the latest example of the government weaponizing colonial-era laws to dismantle…
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to strike 879 applications against Russia from its list of cases on grounds of their lesser importance to case law and a lack of resources for their examination, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: “The European Court of […] The post Russia: ECtHR decision to strike out more than 800 complaints denies victims truth, justice and reparation and should be reversed appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Deniz Vatansever, Research Professor, Fudan University; University of Cambridge
Emmanuel A Stamatakis, Lead, Cognition and Consciousness Imaging Group, Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge
Xinyu Liang, Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge; Fudan University
Stand in front of Turner’s Sun Rising Over Water (1825-30) and something odd tends to happen. The painting holds you, even though observers might struggle to say why. Maybe it is the colour, the balance, the composition, or the strange stillness the artwork seems to carry.
Whatever it is, you feel it long before you can explain why. And the stranger next to you, looking at the same canvas with the same awe in their eyes, very likely feels it too.
We often say that…
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By Andrew Charlton-Perez, Head of School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences and Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading
Ed Hawkins, Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading
Even with today’s forecasting technology, D-Day would not have been an easy call as portrayed in the new movie, Pressure.
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By Sarah Salih, Reader in English, King's College London
Entering The Raw and the Cooked at the Saatchi Gallery in London, you are faced with a single enormous painting that occupies the whole of the opposite wall. The Punishment of Richard Roose (2026) is a magnificently anachronistic project: a museum-scale picture of a fairly obscure episode of English history.
Stiff, stylised, life-sized figures stand against a plain background in this painting by Harry Jones London, curator of the exhibition.
At its centre, a boiling cauldron emitting a toxic cloud of steam is the imminent destination for the unfortunate figure standing beside…
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By Joshua Garland, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lund University
Over the summer, Europe provided a stark new set of images of climate change. Wildfires raced across forests and grasslands, rivers and reservoirs dried up in droughts and extreme heat disrupted everyday life.
Instead of the familiar photographs of people enjoying days at the beach, coverage of heatwaves increasingly comes with images of their consequences.
Moreover, issues such as drought and the knock-on challenges for water conservation…
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By Roman Pavlyuchenko, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Bath
This re-release looks less like nostalgia and more like surrender: a bid to escape the multiverse mess and make things coherent again.
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By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
The discovery that a mosquito species capable of transmitting the Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses is breeding in east London may sound alarming, particularly to people living nearby. Yet finding the species is several steps removed from finding evidence that any of these viruses are circulating locally.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and larvae have been found at residential properties in east London. This…
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
Our team of researchers travelled through some of Syria’s devastated cities to find out how people are rebuilding their lives after the civil war.
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