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AWARD>> Professor Duncan Bell elected Fellow of the British Academy

5 August 2021

Duncan has been elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in recognition of his contribution to the humanities and social sciences. Read more>> Read Duncan's full biography and publications list here>> Follow Duncan on Twitter here>>

LISTEN NOW>> Unspeakable: Genocide and mass trauma

5 August 2021

POLIS PhD candidate and Gates Scholar—Alice Musabende presents 'Unspeakable', a series on educating young people about genocide and mass trauma, and why it's necessary. Alice Musabende is a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which her whole family were killed, along with over a million other Tutsis. Working first...

FORUM>> Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory

5 August 2021

Editorial board member Iza Hussin (University of Cambridge) and editor Mona Oraby (Amherst College) cocurated this forum that draws together scholars of religion, state, and society to initiate a conversation around translation and its place within the academic enterprise. As they write in their introductory essay: “Rather...

Duncan Bell elected a Fellow of the British Academy

28 July 2021

Congratulations to Professor Duncan Bell on being elected a Fellow of the British Academy .

WATCH>> The 2021 Alcuin Lecture

23 June 2021

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) This year's talk was given by Professor Lucio Baccaro of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Professor Lucio Baccaro will look at three ongoing research projects. The first...

LISTEN NOW>> Rethinking Responsibility

21 June 2021

Professor Jude Browne looks at how we tackle the concept of responsibility post-pandemic on BBC Radio 4's Podcast Rethink. Rethink is a show about how the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. Thoughts from leading thinkers from across the globe give share their route maps to a better tomorrow. You can listen...

WATCH>> The 2021 Antcliffe Lecture with Sir David Lidington

14 May 2021

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Sir David Lidington talks about 'A United Kingdom? The future of the constitution and the Union' This year, one week after the Scottish and Welsh parliamentary elections, Sir David Lidington...

NEW>> Academic staff joining POLIS

27 April 2021

We are delighted to announce we have 11 new colleagues joining POLIS this year "Dear Colleagues, this year marks a major expansion of the Department, please do welcome and get to know our new colleagues as they join throughout the course of 2021." - Jason Sharman, Head of the Department William Hurst Chong Hua Professor of...

PRIZE>> Peter Sloman wins prestigious Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence

22 April 2021

Congratulations to Peter Sloman on winning a 2021 Pilkington Prize The Pilkington Prizes are awarded annually to members of staff in recognition of their contributions to teaching excellence. The awards were initiated by Sir Alastair Pilkington, who believed that the quality of teaching was crucial to the University's...

OPINION>> People of faith are allies to stall climate change

7 April 2021

Together, religious groups and scientists can be a powerful force for a liveable planet. To make sufficient progress in the fight against climate change, scientists need to start taking religious groups more seriously as allies, writes Cambridge political scientist, Dr Tobias Müller, in Nature . I am used to sceptical...

AWARD>> Professor Duncan Bell elected Fellow of the British Academy

LISTEN NOW>> Unspeakable: Genocide and mass trauma

FORUM>> Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory

Duncan Bell elected a Fellow of the British Academy

WATCH>> The 2021 Alcuin Lecture

LISTEN NOW>> Rethinking Responsibility

WATCH>> The 2021 Antcliffe Lecture with Sir David Lidington

NEW>> Academic staff joining POLIS

PRIZE>> Peter Sloman wins prestigious Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence

OPINION>> People of faith are allies to stall climate change

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