Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Sarah Morales, Associate Dean Indigenous & Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria The British Columbia Supreme Court’s recent decision in Cowichan Tribes v. Canada has attracted a lot of headlines, with some suggesting it signals the end of private property. The Quw’utsun Nation sought…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Taylor Morphett, Assistant Professor, English, University of Northern British Columbia As another school year returns, large language models (LLMs) present difficult questions around learning, thinking, plagiarism and authorship for educators. New approaches to assignments and assessment are required. Student papers that use LLM technology require additional…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Marianne A. Larsen, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Education, Western University Elected school boards across Canada are increasingly threatened. Ontario Education Minister Paul Callandra recently said he is open to eliminating elected trustees altogether. This would would follow the lead of Nova Scotia and Québec, where they…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Jefferson Ng, PhD student, Australian National University The iconic building of the Indonesian Parliament complex in Jakarta on July 20, 2023 ahead of the Independence Day celebration preparation. Disto De Niro/Shutterstock Large demonstrations hit Jakarta over the past week as angry protesters demanded the dissolution of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Tim Kenyon, Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Brock University In July 2025, the connection between United States President Donald Trump and his base of supporters was fractured by the announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI that no “Epstein list” exists. That is, they…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Victoria Gibbon, Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town Cape Town has consistently been one of the metropolitan regions in South Africa with the highest murder rates. It has more than double the national average, and is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Adeline Morez Jacobs, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Padova (Italy); visiting lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University (UK), University of Padua A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Claudia Christowitz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University Cancer treatment is becoming more personalised. By considering a patient’s unique genetic and molecular profile, along with their lifestyle and environmental factors, doctors can make more accurate treatment decisions. This approach, known as personalised or precision medicine, has…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jack Barkenbus, Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt University BYD electric cars wait at a Chinese port to be loaded onto the automobile carrier BYD Shenzhen, which was slated to sail to Brazil. STR/AFP via Getty Images In 2025, 1 in 4 new automotive vehicle sales globally are…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Rebecca Corbett, Japanese Studies Librarian and Senior Lecturer in History, University of Southern California Matcha lattes are prepared at a cafe in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles in May 2025. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images “Matcha mania” shows no signs of slowing,…