Nov 9, 2022 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
Sharm El-Sheikh on the Red Sea coast is best known for tourism and conferences. By Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Jen Allan, Cardiff University The world’s leaders are gathering for another global climate meeting, this time in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt....
Apr 24, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
By Bedross Der Matossian In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims. The central Ottoman government failed to prosecute the main...
Mar 17, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
By Maartje Abbenhuis & Sara Buttsworth While it is all too easy and comfortable to indulge in our Nazi fascination to demonise our enemies, maybe we should still the media chaos just for a moment and reflect. Who are you calling a Nazi? And why? From the very...
Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Kathryn Bowen & Belle Workman The latest UN climate report finds that in the absence of ambitious action on climate change, the worst is yet to come for human populations. As catastrophic flooding devastates parts of Queensland and northern New South Wales,...
Oct 24, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
How important is historical memory in politics? What can we learn about how our past memories are manipulated to change current and future politics? What can we learn from memory entrepreneurs in places like the former Yugoslavia? How did they try to change...