Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Molly Ryder Granatino, Teaching Assistant Professor, English department, University of Tennessee Students consider their own mortality in a literature course on death and dying. iStock/Getty Images Plus Spooky decorations of ghosts and skeletons will soon be returning to people’s doorsteps ahead of Halloween – but…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Kui Xie, Dean of College of Education and Human Development, University of Missouri-Columbia States including Michigan and Colorado are restricting the ways students can use digital devices in school. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Across the United States, more schools are implementing policies restricting cellphones…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Gonzalo Maturana, Associate Professor of Finance, Emory University Congress failed to reach a deal in time, leaving the federal government shut down. AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib The U.S. government shutdown couldn’t come at a worse time for federal workers. With a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Sioux McKenna, Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University The Sorbonne University, founded in Paris in 1253 and known globally as a symbol of education, science and culture, has just announced that, starting in 2026, it will stop submitting data to Times Higher…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Nicodemus Minde, Researcher, United States International University Tanzania has conducted regular polls since the first multiparty elections in 1995. But they have often failed to meet democratic standards. The opposition has been persistently excluded and restricted, and media freedoms and civil rights have been suppressed.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Tim Forssman, Senior Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga Museums are usually in cities. So, where transport is poor and it’s expensive to travel, many people can’t visit them. We decided to experiment with a way of getting around the problem: we built a travelling museum. I’m an…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Hoda Khalil, Adjunct Research Professor and Lecturer, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University A recent report from the University of Chicago’s Air Quality Life Index found that wildfires are worsening air quality in Canada. The report found that in 2023, wildfires caused concentrations of particulate matter…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Wade Paul, Phd Candidate, Concordia University Sept. 30 is upon us once again, the fourth year this day will be observed as a time to reflect on the history of colonialism, and its ongoing impacts, on the Indigenous Peoples and communities in what is now called…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By J-C Couture, Adjunct faculty and Associate Lecturer, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta If 2022 was the year OpenAI knocked our world off course with the launch of ChatGPT, 2025 will be remembered for the frenzied embrace of AI as the solution to everything. And,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Carrie Ann Johnson, Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Iowa State University Would you trust sensitive information from someone you know more than from an anonymous online poster? kali9/E+ via Getty Images Whisper networks are informal channels that women use to warn each other…