Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Simon Levett, PhD candidate, public international law, University of Technology Sydney Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she had captured the suffering in Gaza through…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Kylie Message, Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University United States President Donald Trump first signalled his intention to target the Smithsonian Institution in March, when he signed an executive order titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Milda Žilinskaitė, Senior Scientist, Competence Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Founding Co-Director of Migration, Business & Society, Vienna University of Economics and Business Arturo Almanza K/Shutterstock The tariff wars between the US and its trade partners have rarely…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Pauline Fairclough, Professor of Music, University of Bristol At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella, it tells the story of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Veronica Lamarche, Senior Lecturer of Psychology, University of Essex As I left the screening of the new film The Roses, I became aware of a young couple walking ahead of me. The woman was in tears, and it quickly became clear the themes of the film,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Westcott, Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Dept of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London The Trump administration’s policies are making life more complicated for US diplomats abroad. In the past few days, senior US diplomats in two friendly countries – France and Denmark…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Benton, Professor Emeritus (Human & Health Sciences), Medicine Health and Life Science, Swansea University When scientists cracked the human genome in 2003 – sequencing the entire genetic code of a human being – many expected it would unlock the secrets of disease. But genetics explained…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachel Lauwerijssen, Researcher in Green Infrastructure, University of Manchester FahC2025 Look at the front gardens in a typical suburban street and you’re unlikely to be surprised by much. Tidy little lawns and hedges, a few prim flowers, perhaps a well-kept wooden fence. You probably barely notice…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Peter William Walsh, Researcher, The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford Speaking to the press in an airport hangar near Oxford on August 26, the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, unveiled his party’s new policy on mass deportations. There are many elements to the policy, but…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Harsh Trivedi, Teaching Associate French, School of Languages, Arts and Societies., University of Sheffield Daguerrotype of Honoré de Balzac by Louis-Auguste Bisson (1842). Wiki Commons/Canva., CC BY-SA The 19th-century novelist Honoré de Balzac was Catholic, French to the core and obsessed with the material details of…