Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Nadia Hasan, Assistant Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University, Canada In April 2024, a video circulated online showing an Oakville, Ont. high school teacher and a student having an alarming and contentious conversation about his keffiyeh. The Iroquois Ridge High School educator…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Aimee Pugh Bernard, Associate Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Regulatory T cells (red) interact with other immune cells (blue) and modulate immune responses. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH via Flickr Every day, your immune system performs a delicate…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Emilda Thavaratnam, PhD student, Leadership and Higher Education, University of Toronto The establishment of Ontario’s colleges of applied arts and technology 60 years ago marked a pivotal moment in the province’s educational history. The founding vision was based on principles of accessibility and community, as colleges…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – France – By Gordon M. Sayre, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, EM Lyon Business School Service workers may pay a price for the “customer is king” mentality: power imbalance and increased exposure to sexual harassment and hostility. John Michael Wilyat/Unsplash, CC BY Corporate websites, training manuals, and interviews with business leaders…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Dan Paget, Assistant professor, University of Sussex Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY As Tanzania’s national elections approach, a familiar humdrum of coverage has emerged. It goes like this. In its crackdowns, censorship and harassment of the opposition, Tanzania is becoming increasingly…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Saheed Babajide Owonikoko, Researcher, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology Abubakar Shekau, the erstwhile leader of the terrorist group Jama’at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da’wa wa al-Jihad (JAS), died in 2021. The west African group, also known as Boko Haram, then…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Elizabeth Chiarello, Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis Pharmacists see themselves as vital gatekeepers – but at times, some critics treat them as physicians’ sidekicks. Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment via Getty Images Imagine walking into your pharmacy, handing over your prescription and having it…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Charlotte Nau, PhD Candidate in Media Studies, Western University Technology-facilitated sexual violence includes harmful practices such as sexual name-calling, rumour spreading, non-consensual distribution of nudes, and other forms of sexual harassment. (imgix/Unsplash), CC BY Law enforcement agencies across Canada are sounding the alarm over a rise…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Elizabeth Chiarello, Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis Pharmacists see themselves as vital gatekeepers – but at times, some critics treat them as physicians’ sidekicks. Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment via Getty Images Imagine walking into your pharmacy, handing over your prescription and having it…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Alex Volonte, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant in Journalism, University of Florida As traditional media outlets struggle to hold power to account, citizen watchdogs can still make a splash. Man_Half-tube/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images In September 2025, podcaster Pablo Torre published an investigation alleging that…