Attempted Ramsay Centre no platforming reveals the dangers of hypocrisy in progressive ideals
What’s a progressive academic to do when standing up for non-Western values is at odds with their ideals, asks Constantine Sandis
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Science paper retracted in seismic fraud case
Aftershocks continue amid new revelations of fabrication
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Brazil funding cuts ‘threat to democracy’, global scholars warn
Open letter signed by more than 1,500 academics worldwide urges Brazilian government to shelve proposals to withdraw philosophy and sociology in public universities
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Fury over Edinburgh fellowship with no pay for summer months
Hundreds sign petition calling for teaching post to receive salary in July and August
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Work!: A Queer History of Modeling, by Elspeth H. Brown
Shahidha Bari on an original telling of 20th-century culture that poses questions around race, gender and authenticity
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Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement, by David K. Johnson
Niall Richardson considers the political aspects of magazines often dismissed as soft porn
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New and noteworthy – 2 May 2019
Ottoman inspiration; natural head-turners; a southern city’s racial evolution; and insiders moved to call out misconduct
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Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment, by Juliana Spahr
Jess Cotton is not totally convinced by an account of the links between literature and state funding and nationalism
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The state of the discipline: English studies
English studies is a traditional big beast in the academy, but there are concerns that changes in student behaviour could put it on the endangered list. Seven academics give their views on whether...
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Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture, by Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose, and Jessalynn Keller
Emma Rees celebrates a new generation of online feminist campaigners
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Letters – 2 May 2019
Student housing needs solutions not posturing In his defence of private student accommodation providers (“Ways the Augar review could tackle student housing”, Opinion, 27 April, www....
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THE to host first summit in Japan
Asia Universities Summit 2020 will take place in partnership with Fujita Health University in Nagoya
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Tsinghua head: prize students who challenge classroom ‘authority’
University’s emphasis on creativity, not exam scores, aims to help shift China away from ‘degree factory’ model, THE summit hears
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Chinese family ‘paid $6.5 million to get daughter into Stanford’
Biggest payment in admission fraud linked to Yusi Zhao, also known as Molly