by Talking Humanities | Mar 30, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Fellowships & Networks, From the Archives, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Dr Cynthia Johnston discusses the benefits of the ‘academic partnership’ between the Institute of English Studies and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, which she says has resulted in the rediscovery of a major research resource in the UK. In 2014, the Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 28, 2017 | Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Training and Research
Last Sunday (26 March), a week of 1,500 events celebrating the French language all over the world came to a close. This year’s theme, ‘The virtual world’, had a decidedly forward-looking flavour that Dr Juliette Scott believes was selected to challenge the legacy of...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 23, 2017 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
After a recent visit to universities in his home country leading South African intellectual Professor Xolela Mangcu, asks ‘How do we decolonise the curriculum when our young have created their own version of history – when there is no facticity?’ Earlier...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 21, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Image: White rhino in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa South Africa’s long-awaited statistical report on rhino poaching reveal a 10.3 per cent dip in the numbers illegally killed in 2016 compared to the previous year. However, the picture is...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 20, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: Damara Zebras at Chudop waterhole, Etosha, Namibia. Wikimedia Commons Professor Henning Melber tries to find something that ‘the land of wide open spaces’, Namibia, can celebrate on its 27th anniversary of independence. Most visitors to Namibia are impressed....