Sporting events like the Olympic Games claim to promote equality and human dignity, yet are frequently used to marginalize people. Perhaps it’s time to consign Olympism to the dustbin of history.
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Paris will be at the centre of the global sporting stage this summer.
The Olympic Games have also been highly political events – Paris 2024 will be no different.
Ernaux’s sparse writing about everyday encounters gains a new quality against photos from the MEP’s collection
The new drama provides a fascinating insight into the competitive world of mid-century haute couture via the man considered ‘the master’ of high fashion.
Despite his mental anguish, Van Gogh produced some of his greatest paintings in the last few months of his life.
The 1976 Olympics marked a turning point in Olympic history: it was the first highly visible security operation, which has since become the norm for Olympic Games.
From technological prowess to new narratives, silent film came into its own against the backdrop of the Iron Lady.
With an eye to Kant’s work, a philosopher and a sociologist argue that the Uber project robs drivers of their dignity.
Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.
The IOC needs to look beyond gender parity and work with international federations to address athletes’ conditions of participation in sports to achieve true gender equality.
There is hope for a return to a more traditional and enjoyable Olympic Games with the upcoming 2024 Paris Games.
One year away from the 2024 Olympic Games, the grim reality of climate change is impossible to deny. How do we make the mega-event sustainable and avoid the pitfalls of greenwashing?
I’ve interviewed disaffected people across French suburbs. Their anger has been mounting for years.
A new three-part series brings together a wealth of material and voices to present new films, photographs, stories and theories about the brilliant artist.
Ever since it launched, the streaming platform has made its name by spearheading ever more daring innovations. But could this model be hurtling toward uniform plots and worldviews?
Although Paris’s capitalisation overtook London’s in late 2022, the City of London is still Europe’s leading financial centre. Understanding why will require that we look beyond stock indices.
As the new series of Emily in Paris drops, an expert in cultural depictions of the city asks – where are all the Parisians?
It’s riddled with cliches and a dislike of a certain type of “Americaness”.
France’s ‘renewed partnership’ with Algeria may be less about exploring a difficult and painful past and more about pressing political concerns.
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Professeure de management stratégique, directrice des programmes du MSc Arts & Creative Industries Management à Paris et de la partie française de l'Institut Franco-Chinois de Management des Arts et du Design à Shanghai, Kedge Business School
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, Aston University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Director of Graduate Studies and Research, University of London Institute in Paris
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York
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Researcher in Environmental Humanities, The University of Edinburgh
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Lecturer in Film Studies, King's College London
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Professor of Politics and Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural HIstory and Theory, UNSW & Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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