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Tensions
have run high at many universities around the world since the
Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the subsequent Israeli
assault on Gaza. In the US, amid ongoing protests and
solidarity marches at many campuses, the president of the
University of Pennsylvania resigned last week following her
answers to a hearing in Congress about antisemitism on
campus.
In
the first of two episodes of The Conversation Weekly podcast
exploring how the war is affecting life at universities, we
speak to David Mednicoff, chair of the Department of Judaic
and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst in the US to find out what’s
been happening on his campus. He told us that in the
current climate for higher education, in which many American
universities are under attack from outside groups, trying to
foster well-informed open debate on issues such as
Israel-Palestine can feel like a political choice in itself.
In the second episode, we hear a view on how
the conflict is affecting academic freedom from UK-based
Israeli legal scholar, Neve Gordon. Subscribe
to The Conversation Weekly wherever you listen to your
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Gemma Ware
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A pro-Palestinian march in Edinburgh in early
December 2023. jeremy sutton-hibbert / Alamy Stock
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation
The
second of two episodes of The Conversation Weekly podcast
exploring how the Israel-Gaza conflict is affecting life at
universities. |
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation
The
first of two episodes of The Conversation Weekly
podcast exploring how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting
life at
universities. | |
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Farzad Hashemi, The University of Texas at San
Antonio; Guangqing Chi, Penn State; Lisa D. Iulo, Penn State;
Ute Poerschke, Penn State
An
interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran
computer models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The
neighborhood with more vulnerable residents was also
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Ian Parmeter, Australian National
University
The
mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages by the
Israeli Defense Forces at the weekend has
substantially increased pressure on Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire.
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Dawn Garisch, University of Cape Town;
Steve Reid, University of Cape Town
The
benefits of creative writing are particularly
important in countries where there’s a need to build a
caring society and there are limited resources.
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Janet Remmington, University of York
She
reveals a range of African experiences: from traders
to martial arts champions, visa overstayers to heart
surgeons.
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Steve Turton, CQUniversity Australia
Once
the immediate crisis in North Queensland has subsided,
authorities will need to grapple with how to deal with
the ‘new normal’ of extreme weather events. The big
question is: are they prepared?
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Ignacio Cofone, McGill University
Meta’s
decision to charge users for an ad-free experience
still requires that people have their information
collected.
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Calder Walton, Harvard Kennedy School
Cuba
gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia
or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its
intelligence service has already penetrated the US
government at least once.
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Edward Armstrong, University of Helsinki
The
Sahara Desert is green and vegetated every 21,000
years. A climate model shows
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