Martial arts
If you’re tired of all the war-talk – I mean ‘war on the humanities’ talk – then try Anthony Galluzzo on teaching the humanities at the US Military Academy at West Point (yes): Sarah Lawrence, with...
View ArticleScholars, spies and strategic knowledges
I’ve been reading anthropologist/historian Nicholas Dirks on ‘Scholars, spies and global studies’ here. He’s acutely aware of the origins of ‘area studies’ in the Second World War – and Trevor...
View ArticleDisposable life
Histories of Violence launches its tremendously important (and equally ambitious) Disposable Life project, which Brad Evans explains like this: “Mass violence is poorly understood if it simply refers...
View ArticleThe aesthetics of drone warfare
A conference at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield (UK), 7-8 February 2020, organised by Beryl Pong – Vice Chancellor’s Fellow in English at the University of Sheffield –...
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