Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Femi Owolade, Research Associate, Sheffield Hallam University Kam Hus/shutterstock Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were reignited following Donald Trump’s recent speech to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chee Meng Tan, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham China’s president, Xi Jinping, has met with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, for their first face-to-face talks in six years. Trump emerged from the meeting in South Korea in a buoyant mood, describing it as…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Abi Crane, Postgraduate Researcher in Palaeontology, University of Southampton A pack of Nanotyrannus attacks a juvenile T. rex Anthony Hutchings, CC BY-NC-ND A new specimen of one of the most controversial species of dinosaur has the potential to overturn decades of research on the T rex.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University A massive anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro left 132 people dead in the early hours of October 28 as Brazil’s security forces confronted one of the country’s biggest crime gangs. It was one of the deadliest security…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jamie Woodward, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Manchester One hundred years ago, a catastrophic flood carrying enormous boulders swept through part of Dolgarrog village, north Wales, destroying several homes, a bridge and the local chapel. Ten adults and six children lost their lives. The tragedy…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Catherine Bannister, Visiting Researcher at The University of Sheffield, Social research of children’s play and cultural worlds / archives of cultural tradition and childhood, University of Sheffield Usborne All About Ghosts by Christopher Maynard is a non-fiction book for children curious about spectral beings. First published…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alex Dittrich, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Nottingham Trent University Incy wincy hasn’t got time for witchcraft. thatmacroguy/Shutterstock If you’re scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn’t help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake cobwebs and horror movies depict giant spiders hunting humans or creeping around spooky…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Harper, Lecturer in International Relations, University of East London It was 12 out of ten, said US president Donald Trump when reporting back on his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. The two men met in the South Korean city of Busan on October…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jan Machielsen, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University Across Europe, campaigns for national witch memorials are gathering pace. In the Netherlands, a charity recently announced it had selected the design for a monument in Roermond, the site of the country’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chloe Ward, Senior Lecturer in the History of British Art, Queen Mary University of London Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya (1820-1823). Museo del Prado With Halloween approaching, we asked seven of our academic experts to tell us about the most unsettling artwork they’ve ever…