Enlightenment

Language, science and human control of nature: the case of Buffon’s ‘Histoire naturelle’

Hanna Roman discusses the importance of understanding the link between language and nature in 18th century France in her book, The Language of Nature in Buffon's Histoire naturelle, the latest volume to be published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. In the French eighteenth century, it is difficult to understand how science worked without first studying its relationship to … Continue reading

Literature

Readings in the Cantos – Five Minutes with Richard Parker

To celebrate the release of Readings in the Cantos, we caught up with Richard Parker to discuss changing perspectives on the Cantos and what we can learn from Pound's discarded works. Could you tell us a bit about The Cantos and why they have been so widely studied? The Cantos are one of modernism’s longest poems, begun in earnest around 1915 … Continue reading

News

2018 Annual E. Allison Peers Symposium ‘In Conversation with Pep Guardiola’ and launch of Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool is delighted to invite students, members of staff and the general public to the 2018 Annual E. Allison Peers Symposium ‘In Conversation with Pep Guardiola’, which will take place on Wednesday 21st November.  This year’s symposium will consider new movements and the latest cutting-edge research within the … Continue reading

Journals

Town Planning Review 89.5 Featured Article

The editors of Town Planning Review have selected 'Mass Transit Railway, transit-oriented development and spatial justice: the competition for prime residential locations in Hong Kong since the 1980s' by Sylvia Y. He, Sui Tao, Yuting Hou and Wenhua Jiang as the Featured Article for the latest issue. It will be free to access for a limited time here. When … Continue reading

News

Liverpool University Press partners with The Conversation

In the first agreement of its kind, Liverpool University Press has become the inaugural university press partner of The Conversation UK (http://theconversation.com/uk), an independent source of news and views sourced from university academics and researchers and delivered direct to the public. Since its UK launch in 2013, The Conversation has brought the expertise of university academics … Continue reading