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Jane Wright

@JWConversation

Arts & culture commissioning editor for The Conversation; freelance journalist, author, book editor, speech writer, travel writer and ghost writer.

 Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2017
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Rivals season two: why a shocking death in episode six changes everything for the women of Rutshire theconversation.com/rivals-s… via @ConversationUK
Rivals season two: why a shocking death in episode six changes everything for the women of Rutshire

Rivals season two: why a shocking death in episode six changes everything for the women of Rutshire

In 60 minutes of high drama, a storm becomes both metaphor and agent, weaving all the narrative threads into the fabric of the second season’s part two.

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As the UN adopts an equal world map, meet the three geographers who disputed how the Earth was charted 2000 years ago theconversation.com/as-the-u… via @ConversationUK
As the UN adopts an equal world map, meet the three geographers who disputed how the Earth was...

As the UN adopts an equal world map, meet the three geographers who disputed how the Earth was...

The way a continent appears on the map can shape perceptions of its place in the world – so much is at stake in the depiction of its size and scale.

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Poems on the Underground at 40: how Shakespeare inspired one of London’s best-loved public art projects theconversation.com/poems-on… via @ConversationUK
Poems on the Underground at 40: how Shakespeare inspired one of London’s best-loved public art...

Poems on the Underground at 40: how Shakespeare inspired one of London’s best-loved public art...

The London tube rumbles to rhythm of the best poetry in the world, and now everywhere from New York to Shanghai has created a version of Poems on the Underground.

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What makes music truly ‘Russian’? The forgotten debate between Tchaikovsky and his star pupil theconversation.com/what-mak… via @ConversationUK
What makes music truly ‘Russian’? The forgotten debate between Tchaikovsky and his star pupil

What makes music truly ‘Russian’? The forgotten debate between Tchaikovsky and his star pupil

Taneyev rebelled against the prevailing mood in Russian classical music to forge a distinctive national style only through folk songs, history and legend.

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Hauntology examines how what happened in the past – and what didn’t – informs the present theconversation.com/hauntolo… via @ConversationUK
Hauntology examines how what happened in the past – and what didn’t – informs the present

Hauntology examines how what happened in the past – and what didn’t – informs the present

Memories endure, histories resurface, places retain physical traces of the past, and forgotten possibilities continue to shape our understanding of the world.

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Raye’s ambitious Mercury Prize-winning album is a testament to female creative freedom theconversation.com/rayes-am… via @ConversationUK
Raye’s ambitious Mercury Prize-winning album is a testament to female creative freedom

Raye’s ambitious Mercury Prize-winning album is a testament to female creative freedom

For years Raye struggled to be allowed to do her music her way. Then she decided to do it independently and the rest is musical history.

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Pan’s Labyrinth at 20: a powerful, symbolic tribute to Spanish resilience in the face of fascism theconversation.com/pans-lab… via @ConversationUK
Pan’s Labyrinth at 20: a powerful, symbolic tribute to Spanish resilience in the face of fascism

Pan’s Labyrinth at 20: a powerful, symbolic tribute to Spanish resilience in the face of fascism

Censorship, and the rebellious ways art can respond to it through potent symbolism, are central to the film.

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Wicker and the rise of the ‘monster romance’: why audiences are falling for the non-human theconversation.com/wicker-a… via @ConversationUK
Wicker and the rise of the ‘monster romance’: why audiences are falling for the non-human

Wicker and the rise of the ‘monster romance’: why audiences are falling for the non-human

Monster romances like Wicker reveal how our cultural ideas about intimacy, desire and romance are being reimagined.

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The Black designers redefining British fashion by drawing on their own heritage, culture and history theconversation.com/the-blac… via @ConversationUK
The Black designers redefining British fashion by drawing on their own heritage, culture and history

The Black designers redefining British fashion by drawing on their own heritage, culture and history

The work of these designers offers a vivid picture of modern Britain, shaped by overlapping cultures, communities and histories.

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Primetime: in this taut morally complex thriller, ambition, entertainment and justice collide theconversation.com/primetim… via @ConversationUK
Primetime: in this taut morally complex thriller, ambition, entertainment and justice collide

Primetime: in this taut morally complex thriller, ambition, entertainment and justice collide

The film reveals how easily the pursuit of justice can become a form of exploitation, and the responsibility the audience bears for the entertainment it consumes.

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Victorian spiritualism capitalised on the desire to transcend death to create new ways of making money theconversation.com/victoria… via @ConversationUK
Victorian spiritualism capitalised on the desire to transcend death to create new ways of making...

Victorian spiritualism capitalised on the desire to transcend death to create new ways of making...

The very technologies that transformed Victorian commerce and entertainment also helped make ghosts visible, reproducible and profitable.

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London Film Festival round-up: a five-star weepie, a sweeping Spanish epic and a misspent youth in post-punk Manchester theconversation.com/london-f… via @ConversationUK
London Film Festival round-up: a five-star weepie, a sweeping Spanish epic and a misspent youth in...

London Film Festival round-up: a five-star weepie, a sweeping Spanish epic and a misspent youth in...

This year’s festival showcased a slate of exceptional films, but there were a few big director misfires too.

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The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as it was to the ‘red scare’ theconversation.com/the-cruc… via @ConversationUK
The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as...

The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s morality tale was as much a reaction to his own marital failings as...

At the height of America’s ‘red scare’ witch-hunts, Miller, whose play makes a martyr hero of the husband, was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe.

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When powerful women are remembered as witches, we should challenge the historical motive theconversation.com/when-pow… via @ConversationUK
When powerful women are remembered as witches, we should challenge the historical motive

When powerful women are remembered as witches, we should challenge the historical motive

Historical women are remembered through reputations they never chose – we need not pass them on uncritically.

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Can AI help ‘humanise’ museums? New report reminds us why art matters in a changing world theconversation.com/can-ai-h… via @ConversationUK

Can AI help ‘humanise’ museums? New report reminds us why art matters in a changing world

Paying attention to the creative and critical uses of AI is an urgent task for art museums today.

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Can memoirs ever tell the whole truth? theconversation.com/can-memo… via @ConversationUK
Can memoirs ever tell the whole truth?

Can memoirs ever tell the whole truth?

The complex relationship between truth and fiction is present in all memoir writing.

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Spider-Man’s 1,000th issue: the enduring appeal of the tortured Hamlet of superheroes theconversation.com/spider-m… via @ConversationUK
Spider-Man’s 1,000th issue: the enduring appeal of the tortured Hamlet of superheroes

Spider-Man’s 1,000th issue: the enduring appeal of the tortured Hamlet of superheroes

Spider-Man has survived 60 years of deaths, disasters and reinventions. His greatest superpower? The ability to keep his story going.

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National Year of Reading: linguistic diversity should be central to reading for pleasure intiatives theconversation.com/national… via @ConversationUK
National Year of Reading: linguistic diversity should be central to reading for pleasure intiatives

National Year of Reading: linguistic diversity should be central to reading for pleasure intiatives

Books in different languages do more than support language learning. They connect families, amplify diverse voices and make reading more inclusive.

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Women in architecture: the damaging workplace culture pushing talented professionals out theconversation.com/women-in… via @ConversationUK
Women in architecture: the damaging workplace culture pushing talented professionals out

Women in architecture: the damaging workplace culture pushing talented professionals out

The profession needs to dismantle the structural and cultural barriers that have held them back for far too long.

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Childless women who shape history and culture are still judged on not being mothers theconversation.com/childles… via @ConversationUK

Childless women who shape history and culture are still judged on not being mothers

Traditional motherhood has always been recognised, while women’s other achievements and bequests must continually prove their worth.

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