Author Posts

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

We are all having to learn how to do more remotely, now and for the foreseeable future. This series of blog posts, drawn from 'Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene', deals with the why, the what and the how of online conferences.

Linguistics

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'

The term ‘Biblical Hebrew’ is generally used to refer to the form of the language that appears in the printed editions of the Hebrew Bible and it is this form that it is

Author Posts

The Shifting Politics of Representations of the Himalaya: From Colonial Authority to Open Access

On an uncharacteristically sunny afternoon in late September, 50 students, staff and faculty gathered at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies [https://pwias.ubc.ca/event/book-launch-the-politics-language-contact-in-the-himalaya] in Vancouver to celebrate the

English Literature

Allusion/Echo and Plagiarism: Walking the Fine Line

In the three-volume second edition (1987) of Tennyson’s complete poems, editor Christopher Ricks cites more than twelve hundred instances where phrases and short passages are similar or identical to those occurring in

Human and Machine Consciousness

Human and Machine Consciousness - a systematic approach

Consciousness is extremely important to us. What would life be worth without the smells, colours and sounds that fill our waking conscious experience? Coma patients who are unlikely to regain consciousness are allowed

open education

Enabling lifelong learning through open education

Broadly speaking, open education (OE) is the widening of access to high quality educational resources in order to promote lifelong learning and greater participation in higher learning and training. One of the driving

1600-1850

The Role of the Well-Timed Question

My chapter in Information and Empire [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/636] is something that I never really expected to write. It came about because of a simple question from Katia Bowers about

1600-1850

Expect the Unexpected

Underlying my contributions to Information and Empire is academic work extending back several decades over much of my academic career (with many breaks for other projects). I have had the satisfaction of seeing

1600-1850

Of Roots and Scrolls

Or, How the Bible, Witchcraft, and Botany Were Brought Together By Bureaucracy In A Completely Everyday Fashion That Was Totally Normal At The Time, No, Really, Stay With Me On This One You

1600-1850

How do people know things?

“How do people know things?” – the title of this blog post – seems like a simple question, but as our new publication, Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 demonstrates, the answer

Experimenting with Audio: Announcing Our First OA Audiobooks

Navigating AI in Academic Publishing: Balancing Efficiency, Expertise and Ethics

October 2024 Newsletter

Our reflections on ‘community over commercialisation’

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'

The Shifting Politics of Representations of the Himalaya: From Colonial Authority to Open Access

Allusion/Echo and Plagiarism: Walking the Fine Line

Human and Machine Consciousness - a systematic approach

Enabling lifelong learning through open education

The Role of the Well-Timed Question

Expect the Unexpected

Of Roots and Scrolls

How do people know things?