What are you reading? – 18 July 2019
Our regular look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Pier Groups: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront, by Jonathan Weinberg
Barry Reay praises a skilful reconstruction of a vibrant moment in New York’s art and sexual histories
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Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders, by Peter Lehr
Sarah Kinkel assesses a wide-ranging survey of buccaneers over the ages
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English universities face ‘extreme challenge’ under next PM
Political shifts will bring funding shift from HE to FE, but universities could play into ‘politics of belonging’, former No 10 adviser says
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Clemens Roothaan, 1918-2019
Tributes paid to a scientist who narrowly missed a Nobel
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Cartography: The Ideal and Its History, by Matthew H. Edney
Book of the week: Jerry Brotton is enthralled by a book that seeks to overturn just about everything we think we know about maps
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A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America, by Lance Freeman
Bryan Cheyette is intrigued by an account that accentuates the positive as well as the negative aspects of ghetto life
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The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, by Mark Lamster
Annmarie Adams assesses a revealing new life of a complex and controversial ‘tastemaker’
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UK HE demands reform of visa system that costs sector ‘£40m a year’
Sector’s representative and mission groups unite to call for change ahead of new PM’s entrance
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Call for Europe-wide ‘academic freedom defence’ to meet Orbán threat
Universities ‘on the front line’ as authoritarianism rises and other European nations may follow Hungary’s example, leaders and academics warn
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Fourth degree by Laurie Taylor – 18 July 2019
All campus life is here
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Higher education needs to be further up the development agenda
As the UN reviews its Sustainable Development Goals, Åse Gornitzka and Sidsel Roalkvam argue that the push for quality education needs to go well beyond primary schools
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Dark matters of the university
Justine Pila describes how men co-opt women in their academic agendas
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THE Leadership Summit: lack of student belonging ‘creates resentment’
In times of conflict it is best to meet students on their own turf, University of Cape Town leader says