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Leading academics from the US and the UK will today join in a live discussion with Jonathan Este, one of The Conversation’s international affairs editors, to consider, "what next for Ukraine, Russia and the world?". It follows a weekend that saw the horrors of the Russian invasion spread to the west of the country. Read The Conversation’s complete coverage of the war here.
And with millions of people now displaced in Ukraine, a special edition of The Conversation Weekly podcast looks at the issue of what happens to refugees after they flee crisis regions. The episode is part of the UK/AU Season 2021-22. We also reflect on Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, 50 years on from its release, and bring you a new section of long reads and reviews, called Books and Ideas. The articles are
commissioned by Suzy Freeman-Greene and her team in our Melbourne bureau.
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A protester outside an immigration detention facility in Melbourne, Austraila.
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Justin Bergman, The Conversation
Plus, Russia’s history of using refugees from Ukraine as geopolitical tools. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
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A woman wears a face mask as she walks by the sculpture ‘The Illuminated Crowd’ on a street in Montréal. Vulnerable people may benefit from measures like face masks even after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rutvij A. Khanolkar, University of Calgary; Eddy S. Lang, University of Calgary
Decreases in respiratory infections during the pandemic suggest there may be a continued role for the selective, non-mandated use of measures like masks and social distancing even post-COVID-19.
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The Godfather starred Marlon Brando in his most iconic role.
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Gill Jamieson, University of the West of Scotland
Considered one of the greatest films of all time, Francis Ford Coppola’s sweeping epic is back on the big screen for its big birthday.
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Jonathan Este, The Conversation
Join us on Monday, March 14 from 5pm-6pm GMT. Featuring four leading academics with specialist knowledge of different aspects of the crisis.
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Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University
Handheld missiles help defend against tanks and warplanes. That makes them desirable for Ukraine to receive and easier for other countries to provide.
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Olenka Z Pevny, University of Cambridge
What the world stands to lose due to Putin’s unprovoked war.
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Francisca Mutapi, University of Edinburgh
Progress against neglected tropical diseases is now at real risk of reversal as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University
Accurately calculating a ship’s position by hand in 1915 was easy compared to what the New Zealand-born navigator Frank Worsley had to do next.
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David Godwin, University of Florida
Hurricane Michael left a jumbled mess of downed trees. Cleaning it up is even harder than it sounds, and now dead trees are burning.
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Julienne van Loon, RMIT University
Two writers discuss feminism, writing in the age of Trump and COVID – and being ‘flabbergasted’ by the absence of birth from Western art and philosophy.
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