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Societies and Cultures Institute welcomes acclaimed Visiting Researcher

One of India’s preeminent feminist writers and political thinkers has been invited to the University of Exeter to provide a...

Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a...

New research reveals how apartheid-era sexual violence has been ‘collectively unremembered’ by South African society

A generation of women in South Africa have collectively pushed from their memories apartheid-era sexual violence in a cultural process...