Should we be rethinking the humanities for a digital age?
Our CEO, @hetanshah.bsky.social, joins the latest episode of ‘Rethink’ on BBC Radio 4, presented by British Academy fellow Professor Ben Ansell, for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of the humanities.
How are weight-loss jabs changing the face of beauty?
Professor Rosalind Gill FBA discusses in the Guardian how GLP-1 weight-loss drugs may be reshaping contemporary notions of attractiveness, and how these evolving aesthetics could become a new cultural ideal reflected across society and in art.
“We’re living in a world now where public service media is more important than it ever has been.”
Professor Justin Lewis FBA gave evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s Inquiry into the BBC Royal Charter Review this morning. @hoccommittees.parliament.uk 🧵
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Experts say exponential growth in the use of drugs such as Wegovy is shifting our perception of what is attractive
The Idea of Evangelisation by Samuel Cardwell explores how Christian writers from the fourth to eighth centuries shaped and transformed the idea of evangelising people.
Read this new perspective on the origins of Christian mission in early medieval Western Europe for free on Open Access. 👇
Catholicism and Elizabethan Seafaring explores the overlooked role of English Catholic sailors in the Anglo-Spanish conflicts.
Read this new open access monograph from Andrii Pastushenko, challenging assumptions about confessional allegiance and seafaring in an era of religious confrontation.
It explores how countries are seeking to balance sustainability, independence and public value, and what lessons this offers for the UK’s future approach.
Read the report now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
Drawing on his work with the Academy, he shared evidence on Public Service Media funding and the lessons we can learn from comparative models around the world.
Our recent report was described as “groundbreaking” by the Chair of today’s Committee evidence session.
‘Mission’, Theology and Scripture from the Early Church to the Age of Bede
New in the Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi series: Ralph Strode, Obligationes.
The first edition and English translation of Ralph Strode’s work highlight his distinctive fourteenth-century logical theory and links to Geoffrey Chaucer’s intellectual circle.
Discover at Liverpool University Press.
What’s the future of the humanities at a time of pressure in higher education and wider digital change? I’ll be on R4 at 4pm discussing this as part of their Rethink series. It was recorded several weeks ago so I now have no recollection of what I specifically said!
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