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Border workers face significant moral challenges in terms of the work that they do, particularly in terms of the exercise of violence. About Ana Aliverti I am a Professor of criminal law and criminal justice. My research work looks at the intersections between criminal law and criminal justice, on the one hand, and border regimes, on the other, and explores the impact of such intertwining on the n...

Crimmigration describes the merging of criminal and immigration law, creating a punitive system for migrants that lacks criminal justice safeguards and protections. About Ana Aliverti I am a Professor of criminal law and criminal justice. My research work looks at the intersections between criminal law and criminal justice, on the one hand, and border regimes, on the other, and explores the impact...

The realm of DNA-based materials combines the way DNA is manipulated and handled inside our cells with innovative ways of thinking about material science outside, for industrial purposes. About Davide Michieletto  "I am a Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Edinburgh working on Topological Problems in Soft Matter and Biology. I am a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. I am the group le...

DNA topology, more specifically, is the study of the topological properties of DNA. And it's really fascinating. About Davide Michieletto  "I am a Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Edinburgh working on Topological Problems in Soft Matter and Biology. I am a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. I am the group leader of the Topological Active Polymers Lab. We aim to discover new DNA-bas...

DNA is the blueprint of life. It contains all the genetic information required for complex organisms to be alive and to sustain life. About Davide Michieletto  "I am a Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Edinburgh working on Topological Problems in Soft Matter and Biology. I am a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. I am the group leader of the Topological Active Polymers Lab. We aim to...

Trust is absolutely essential for our ability to cooperate with other people, to get anything done, to move around in the world at all. About Tiffany Watt Smith I am an author and historian of emotions. I write about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds. I have won multiple awards for my research and writing, including grants from Wellcome Trust, the British Acade...

Female friendship is a powerful, evolving force that has long been overlooked, yet reveals deep emotional, cultural, and social significance across history About Tiffany Watt Smith I am an author and historian of emotions. I write about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds. I have won multiple awards for my research and writing, including grants from Wellcome Trus...

It's sometimes counterintuitive to think that emotions might have a history, because surely everyone across the world and everyone across time has always felt fear and anger and sorrow and joy in the same kind of way. About Tiffany Watt Smith I am an author and historian of emotions. I write about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds. I have won multiple awards fo...

Foucault thinks that territory was much more of a focus of politics in the medieval period, but this has been supplanted by this interest of government over population in a more modern period. Shakespeare also offers a lot of material that can help us to think about those kinds of questions. About Stuart Elden "I’m a Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick. My rese...

Greetings and partings are mini rituals that frame every encounter and condense emotional intensity into gestures and words. About David Hillman "I lecture on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture at the University of Cambridge and direct studies at King’s College in Cambridge. I'm the author of Shakespeare's Entrails, which is my first monograph. I've also written about Shakespeare and Freud; the h...

Islam Issa, Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University, looks at the influence of Shakespeare in popular culture. About Islam Issa "I am a professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University. I’m most interested in cultural history and literary criticism, but particularly reception studies: how and why we read literature, and why that matters." Key Points • Edu...

My life in relation to Shakespeare has always been torn between the stage and the page, thinking about Shakespeare as a literary text that one can pore over. About David Hillman "I lecture on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture at the University of Cambridge and direct studies at King’s College in Cambridge. I'm the author of Shakespeare's Entrails, which is my first monograph. I've also written a...

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Professor of International Politics of Africa at the University of Oxford, examines the extractive industries in Africa. About Ricardo Soares de Oliveira "I’m a Professor of International Politics of Africa at the University of Oxford, and co-editor of the journal African Affairs. My research interests include the workings of the extractive industries (oil, gas and mini...

Eugene Rogan, Director of St. Antony’s College Middle East Centre, examines recent Muslim movements throughout the Arab world. About Eugene Rogan "I am Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford, and Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College. My field is the modern history of the Arab world. I focus primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, and my real interests have alwa...

Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History at the University of Oxford, discusses the rise of global Islam. About Faisal Devji "I’m Professor of Indian History at the University of Oxford. My interest is in the intellectual history of India and Pakistan, as well as in political thought, specifically the political thought of modern Islam." Key Points • Islam historically referred to a set of actions...

Charles Tripp, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, discusses Middle Eastern and North African revolutions. About Charles Tripp "I'm Professor Emeritus of Politics of Middle East and North Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. My work has been mainly in the area of the examination of power and the abuses of power across...

Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, discusses race and the global economy. About Kehinde Andrews "I am Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University and the Chair of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity. My research focuses on understanding race and racism and, really importantly, on how the community is mobilised to combat the problems that we...

Catherine Hall, Emeritus Professor at University College London, argues that the legacy of slavery is more relevant than ever. About Catherine Hall "I'm the chair of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership and Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. My research has been concerned with questions of Britain and its Emp...

Decolonisation, as a process, has more or less run its course, but not entirely. There is a small number of colonies that exist. About Philippe Sands "I’m Professor of Law at University College London, Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Faculty, and a key member of staff in the Centre for Law and the Environment. I am a Barrister at Matrix Chambers and a writer. Ev...

In Shakespeare’s work, the relationship between acknowledgment of the other and knowledge of the other often plays out through the body. About David Hillman "I lecture on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture at the University of Cambridge and direct studies at King’s College in Cambridge. I'm the author of Shakespeare's Entrails, which is my first monograph. I've also written about Shakespeare and...

In my discipline, we tend to look at body-based problems as being expressions of psychological distress. About Susie Orbach "I am a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and writer, and the co-founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre in London and New York. I look at how the issues of society are structured into the individual, and constitute how we become who we are, but holding on to the notion that we li...

The commercialisation of the body hides the amount of work that we put into producing our bodies. About Susie Orbach "I am a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and writer, and the co-founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre in London and New York. I look at how the issues of society are structured into the individual, and constitute how we become who we are, but holding on to the notion that we live in a...

The expression “being in one’s own company” captures the idea that, internally, we are more than one. About Josh Cohen "I’m a psychoanalyst in private practice in London and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. My research is at the borders of psychoanalysis, literature and cultural theory. I’ve written a number of books, including one on Sigmund Freud, on priva...

Foucault says we need to think about power in a different way. It’s not that power doesn’t work in those ways, but that power doesn’t only work in those ways. About Stuart Elden "I’m a Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick. My research is at the intersection of politics, philosophy and geography. I undertake my work predominantly through approaches from the histo...

Novelist and biographer Peter Salmon, discusses deconstruction – the question the philosopher Jacques Derrida never wanted to answer. About Peter Salmon  "I’m a novelist and biographer. I recently wrote a biography of Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, called An Event, Perhaps. One of the great things about writing about Derrida was, like me, there were two things he was incredibly passionat...