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This year the UK and Falkland Islands will mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands. As part of the anniversary, the Falkland Islands Government is offering eight lucky UK students the opportunity of a lifetime – an all-expenses-paid visit to the Falkland Islands in February 2023, where they will experience for themselves the Falkland Islands’ culture, history, and extraordinary natural environment.

Holocaust scholars reject use of anti-Semitism smears against Palestine campaigners.

Questions of the Humanities and its 'Value' The integrative humanities is a form of value creation because it shows how contemporary rewritings of the past damage the present and the future. Photo: matthew Feeney/Unsplash Education7 hours ago The tense dynamic between academic freedom and academic accountability will persist for publicly funded universities – and questions will be asked of the “utility” of disciplines in an age of economic downturns and calls for instrumentalisation – social usefulness – of research. In this context, disciplinary distinctions will be...

„Thematisieren, nicht verdrängen“ Wie werden wir uns in Zukunft an die Corona-Krise erinnern? Jenny Wüstenberg, Expertin für Erinnerungsstudien, über die Wege, im Alltag mit einem epochalen Ereignis umzugehen. 06.07.2021 Von LAURA LIBOSCHIK Lichter zum Gedenken: Hier in Brasilien wurden Ende Juni Kerzen zur Erinnerung an die Corona-Toten entzündet. Foto: Fernando Souza/dpa Berlin. Jenny Wüstenberg ist Historikerin, Politologin und Professorin an der Nottingham Trent Universität in England. Sie hat die Memory Studies Association mitgegründet und forscht dazu,...

As heroic statues fall out of vogue, communities have turned to experimental structures – from flourishing gardens to abstract sculptures – as monuments to loss on a vast scale