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Shakespeare's Globe has announced that Professor Farah Karim-Cooper and Lucy Cuthbertson have been confirmed as Co-Directors of Education, leading the largest education department in a theatre in the country. Lucy and Farah were joint interim leaders throughout the Globe's year of closure, creating over 600 events and courses, and supporting the nation's sudden critical need for quality home learning. Farah and Lucy take on the position after Patrick Spotiswoode, who served as the Director and Founder of Globe Education for 37 years, confirmed his retirement last summer. Starting 14 years bef...

Villanova School of Business Professor Jonathan Doh Elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management VILLANOVA, Pa.—Villanova School of Business (VSB) professor Jonathan Doh, PhD, has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM)—the largest and most prestigious professional organization of management scholars globally. Election as an AOM Fellow is a permanent designation and honors a select group of scholars who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management and distinguished themselves at the top of their fields.  “I am deeply humbled by t...

CUFF 2021 Reviews: Films featuring puppets — Frank & Zed and The Old Man Movie Panel: Puppetry in (Stop)Motion In a live-stream, the filmmakers behind Calgary Underground Film Festival’s 2021 selections of Frank & Zed — an American flick hailing from Portland, Oregon — and The Old Man Movie — a selection from Estonia — sat down for a discussion of puppetry in their (stop)motion passion projects. Featured on the panel was moderator and puppeteer Xstine Cook, a Canadian filmmaker and Artistic Director at the Calgary Animated Objects Society, alongside Directors Jesse Blanchard ( ...

PENDULUM BY DELE MOMODU Fellow Africans, please, permit me to make an open and audacious declaration today. No Professor of Business Management or Mass Communication could have published Ovation International successfully for the period of time that we have done. I apologise if it sounds immodest but that’s not my intention. It is a fact that’s solidly backed by 25 years of an epic journey and with the sight of many would be competitors sadly falling by the wayside within a short time of debuting. One of the most frequently asked questions everywhere I go is how have we managed to keep O...

A former Durham University student who made national news in a row over transphobia has received a letter of apology from Durham University’s Department of Philosophy.  Angelos Sofocleous claimed he had been subject to “harassment and bullying” by the department in the wake of the controversy, which had centred around a post he shared on Twitter in 2018. This initial complaint was not upheld, but upon review he was issued with a letter of apology regarding the handling of the complaint. The letter to Sofocleous read: “The Philosophy Department could have dealt with [your] initial com...