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Rachel Rowntree has just had an article accepted for publication
Jones, C., Emmerson, S., Guerin, C., Rixon, L., Magulike, C., Rowntree, R., Haque, A., & Palikara, O. (forthcoming). Promoting the participation of part-time PGR students through a co-produced writing retreat. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.
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New papers on interdisciplinary cyber security
CIM's Matt Spencer has published two new open access papers exploring interdisciplinarity in cyber security.
The first, in the conference proceedings for the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), explores opportunities to bring a sociological framing to bear on security economics; the second, in Information, Communication and Society introduces a Special Issue focused on 'the fix' as a trope for interdisciplinary cyber security.
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Professor Stephen Connelly launches new book on Finance Law
The Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) will be hosting a book launch of Finance Law by Professor Stephen Connelly on Thursday 20 November 2025 at 5pm in S0.11 at 糖心TV Law School.
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Professor Diarmuid Costello Awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-4)
Professor Diarmuid Costello has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2023-4) to work on his next book project, a collection of essays provisionally titled Spurs to Thought: Philosophical Engagements with Contemporary Art.
Professor Costello says: "The goal of this research is two-fold: to demonstrate the remarkable capacity of selected works of contemporary art to function as spurs to philosophical reflection, if approached in the right spirit; and, in so doing, to establish the value of what I call 鈥減hilosophical criticism鈥 as an alternative to currently dominant methodologies in the philosophy of art, whether analytic or continental. The project brings this method to bear on the kind of contemporary works that often elicit hostility or confusion, so as to make clear the challenge that such works may implicitly pose to our unreflective understanding of normative concepts we make use of every day".
Professor Costello's previous, recently completed monograph, Aesthetics after Modernism will appear in 2024 with Oxford University Press (NYC) in No毛l Carroll and Jesse Prinz鈥檚 鈥楾hinking Art鈥 series.
"Aesthetics after Modernism argues for the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to appreciating art after modernism. It aims to show that even the hardest of 鈥渉ard cases鈥 remain amenable to aesthetic analysis on an adequate conception of the latter. The book traces the contrary view of much recent art criticism and theory to Clement Greenberg鈥檚 success in recruiting Kant鈥檚 aesthetics to underwrite a formalist conception of aesthetic value. This has led later theorists to miss the resources in the third Critique for understanding our cognitive relation to the kinds of art in which they are interested. It is widely assumed that Kant鈥檚 aesthetics cannot speak to the semantic dimension of art; I provide an interpretation of Kant鈥檚 theory of art, taking Conceptual Art as my test case, that suggests otherwise. If it can be shown that Kant鈥檚 aesthetics can accommodate the appreciation of art with no sensible features, then it should in principle be able to accommodate any kind of art".