By Steven Cammiss, Associate Professor, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
Graeme Hayes, Reader in Political Sociology, Aston University
Trudi Warner was initially accused of contempt of court for holding a sign outside the trial of a climate protester.
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By Neil Saunders, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, City, University of London
There’s a strange trend in mathematics education in England. Maths is the most popular subject at A-level since overtaking English in 2014. It’s taken by around 85,000 and 90,000 students a year.
But many universities – particularly lower-tariff institutions, which…
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor
Over the past few days we seem to have been hearing more about the protests roiling the campuses of some of the most prestigious universities in the US over the ongoing crisis in Gaza than about the ongoing crisis in Gaza itself.
To say the conflict is a divisive issue is a massive understatement and other countries have seen their share of bitter debate and confrontation during protests on the streets of some major cities. But the US protests raise an issue tied to a key question about how universities should be run: the need to protect free speech and rigorous debate.
On…
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By Stephen Hall, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath
The recent arrest of Timur Ivanov, Russia’s deputy defence minister and close ally of defence minister Sergei Shoigu, has rocked the country’s politics. Ivanov was an important part of a powerful group which included Shoigu as his direct patron but that also includes the billionaire oligarch Gennady Timchenko – a close associate of Vladimir Putin – and the powerful mayor of Moscow Oblast,
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Anar Mammadli, © 2023, Human Rights House Foundation. (Berlin, May 2, 2024) – Azerbaijani authorities should immediately free a prominent human rights defender, Anar Mammadli, and drop the charges against him, the Human Rights House Foundation said this week in a statement signed by Human Rights Watch and 28 other groups. Mammadi was arrested on April 29, 2024, on bogus “smuggling” charges amid an escalating crackdown on independent voices. Mammadli, who is a member of the Network of Human Rights Houses, is also a founding member of the recently formed Climate of Justice…
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By Samer Zaky, Research Assistant Professor in Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
The durability and longevity of teeth lie in the complex interplay between six different tissues, all of which play an intricate role in tooth formation and health.
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By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
The Starliner has had delays and issues. The May 2024 launch will put its capacity to carry crew to the International Space Station to the test.
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By Ted Olson, Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University
In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven petitioning the great composer to reconsider his plans to premiere his latest work in Berlin and instead debut the symphony in Vienna.
Beethoven had lived in Vienna since 1792, when he left his hometown of Bonn, Germany, to pursue a career as a composer. Beethoven rose to world renown, but by the 1820s he had fallen out of favor with Viennese arts…
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By Erik Bleich, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury
Christopher Star, Professor of Classics, Middlebury
The exponential growth of artificial intelligence over the past year has sparked discussions about whether the era of human domination of our planet is drawing to a close. The most dire predictions claim that the machines will take over within five to 10 years.
Fears of AI are not the only things driving public concern about the end of the world. Climate change and pandemic diseases are…
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By Stefan M. Bradley, Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there in 2024.
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