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Over a Century Gone: Echoes of Leopold’s Congo in the Cobalt Mining Industry
Roya Kenny explores the long term legacy Belgian colonial rule has left on the Congo and its mining industry
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Going Against the Soviet Leadership: A Timeline of the Prague Spring of 1968
Helene Chaligne discuses Alexander Dubček rise to power in Czechoslovakia, initiating the Prague Spring with his push for reforms, including “socialism with a human face.” Despite initial success, Soviet intervention crushed the movement, reinstating severe censorship. The aftermath inspired future resistance and led to the eventual democratization in 1989.
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Between Utopia and Tyranny: What Plato and Marx Tell Us About Power
Lydia Collier-Wood compares and contrasts two renowned thinkers of our ancient and modern history. Plato’s Republic envisions an ideal society focused on justice and collective good, contrasting with Marxist theory’s historical view on class and oppression, revealing tensions in political idealism.
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Corporeal Metaphor and the Imagery of Bulls in Shi Tiesheng’s Roses in Summer and My Faraway Qingping Bay
Shi Tiesheng’s works vividly depict the struggles of disabled individuals within a discriminatory society. Peiqi Ann considers imagery of powerful bulls to explore themes of loss, identity, and societal worth associated with corporeal integrity.
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Ethics of Looking: The Appeal of Female Agony
Ami John analyses the contentious but deeply relevant idea of female agony through the lens of the ancient Roman sculpture, Nymph and Satyr.
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Las Madres Buscadoras
Isabelle Shaw explains how Mexico’s Madres Buscadoras have emerged as a powerful grassroots response to the country’s ongoing crisis of disappearances linked to narcotrafficking.
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Oink Oink Mr President: The Pig that Threatened War between the US and Britain
Kate Taylor recounts the unlikely chain of events in 1859 that nearly triggered a full-scale conflict between two global powers—all because of a single pig on San Juan Island
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The Day the Middle Ages Died: Rethinking the Renaissance Myth
Tara Laize challenges the classic story that Europe suddenly emerged from darkness into the Renaissance.
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