Category: Academic Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Håkan Håkansson, Associate Professor, History of Ideas and Sciences, Lund University Helena Dziedzicka’s notes and pass from the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials, with a still photo of the accused. Lund University Library, CC BY “The witness – a tall, 16-year-old boy with a child-like face – recounts…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Sitophotostock/Shutterstock Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today’s therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, yet they often damage healthy…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chris Hilson, Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Climate and Justice, University of Reading steved_np3/Shutterstock The River Wye used to be full of wild salmon. Today it is full of algae. And the meandering waterway which has long attracted anglers, hikers and poets is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicola Bowring, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University Bogdan Pigulyak/Shutterstock A door creaks shut, unexpectedly; a footstep is heard on the stair; a face seen at the window. The haunted house is a staple of gothic writing, television and film, but what is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alison Stenning, Professor of Social & Economic Geography, Newcastle University Halfpoint/Shutterstock In July 2025, a letter from an English city council neighbourhood services officer circulated on social media. It read: “We have received complaints about young children playing ball games on the main road and streets.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachael Jolley, Environment Editor, The Conversation A view from the island of San Servolo across to Venice. Rachael Jolley, CC BY Over the weekend I was at an environment conference on the tiny island of San Servolo, just off the coast of Venice. You are surrounded…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lynda Dunlop, Senior Lecturer in Science Education, University of York What will the world look like in 2100? This question is central to a new free online game called FutureGuessr. Launched in June 2025, this new form of climate communication combines gameplay with visual climate imagery…