The winner of the 2018 Oxford Art Journal Essay Prize for Early Career Researchers is Dr. Alex Burchmore!
In
a new interview with the journal, Dr. Burchmore discusses his early
career journey so far, his prize winning paper, and tips for submitting
to the 2019 Essay Prize (closing on 1st December 2019). Find out more about his research and details of how to submit your own paperhere.
During World War II, the personal and institutional
libraries and archives of “enemies of the Reich” were plundered and seized.
Confiscated books were burned or went to pulping facilities; some were saved,
but many have yet to be located.
The work of Patricia Kennedy-Grimsted, Holocaust
and Genocide Studies author and a historian focused on the
dispossession and restitution of cultural materials during and after World War II,
has recently been featured in a New York Times article.
In The Indian World of George Washington, a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told. Calloway’s biography invites us to look again at the history of America’s beginnings and see the country in a whole new light.
In 2018, toxic added many strings to its poisoned bow becoming an intoxicating descriptor for the year’s most talked about topics. It is the sheer scope of its application, as found by our research, that made toxic the stand-out choice for the Word of the Year title.
And the runners-up are…
Gaslighting
Incel
Techlash
Gammon
Big Dick Energy
Cakeism
Overtourism
Orbiting
For more on Oxford’s word of the year check out this YouTube playlist and follow @OxfordWords on Twitter for updates.
Religious affiliation and participation appear to play as
strong a role in shaping Americans’ views on climate change as it does with
other environmental issues.
According to research from Yale’s Program on Climate Change
Communication (2016):
There are more self-identified Agnostics or
Atheists who are “alarmed” or “concerned” (up to 21%) about climate change than
those who are “doubtful” or “dismissive” (up to 6%)
Protestants and Baptists, identified as 29% of
the nationwide sample, are underrepresented in the “alarmed” category (15%) and
over represented in the “dismissive” category (36%)
Evangelical Christians are generally
over-represented in groups which either unequivocally deny the existence of
climate change or disbelieve its anthropogenic roots (45% of “dismissives”
identify as Evangelical).
Explore how religious beliefs can affect how people view climate
change.
A Very Short Fact: The University of Oxford received its Royal charter on this day in 1248. There is evidence of teaching at the university in 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second oldest in the world.
In due course, within these fledgling universities, colleges were founded by wealthy and powerful benefactors as charitable corporations, being awarded a royal charter by the monarch as a means of recognition and of signalling his or her protection: for instance, La Sorbonne (1257) at Paris; Balliol (1263) or Merton (1264) at Oxford; along with Peterhouse (1284) at Cambridge (Figure 2). Oxford and Cambridge Universities are unusual in that their colleges have survived as independent, and in some cases also well-endowed, legal entities—although they did come close to being abolished in the 1530s English Reformation as were the
Catholic monasteries and chantries, but fortunately for them King Henry VIII declared: ‘I judge no land in England better bestowed than that which is given to our universities, for by their maintenance our realm shall be well governed when we be dead and rotten.’
Indeed, the colleges collectively in each university are richer than the university itself—Trinity College, Cambridge, being the wealthiest with an endowment of some £1 billion. Like any guild, the Masters sought to defend their privileges and eliminate competition—Oxford and Cambridge, for example, enhancing their monopoly by urging the King to suppress incipient universities at Northampton and later at Stamford.
This
November, the Oxford
University Press Philosophy Festival returns to Blackwell’s bookshop,
Oxford, with evening and day events of talks and thought-provoking debates from
leading philosophers on politics and philosophy. To mark the occasion, we have
curated a reading list featuring works by some of our festival speakers.
These works offer
new ways of thinking about the issues in our society,
and challenge assumptions about the world we
live in; topics featured include marriage
inequality, religious liberty, and the question of social evolution. The
festival will close with a celebration of the life and work of Derek Parfit.
