by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
If digital technologies are inclusive, why would 45 million Yoruba speakers be excluded from machine translation services, asks Dr Emmanuel Ngue Um, associate professor of linguistics and digital humanities at the University of Yaoundé. Be wary of the ‘big tech...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Digital, Features, Research & Resources
Dr Christopher Ohge, considers whether minimal computing, ‘a set of practices that aim to reduce barriers to access and engagement’, may help to reduce the impact of global digital access on the environment. And a sustainable toolkit is on the way. Last year I visited...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Usama Gad, classics and papyrology lecturer at Cairo’s Ain Shams University, calls on scholars to overturn tradition and harness the power of new digital tools to include the voices of the whole human family. The digital culture of digital humanities, in my case in...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Research & Resources
For the best search for online collections, museums and cultural heritage institutions need to reflect the voices of the people they serve and collaborate in how they describe collections, says Jessica BrodeFrank, a doctoral student at the School of Advanced Study and...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Digital, Research & Resources
Professor Jane Winters, director of the School of Advanced Study’s Digital Humanities Research Hub, introduces a selection of articles that consider access to digital resources and technologies through the lens of digital humanities. It is more than a decade since a...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Professor David Sugarman traces the bonds between law and the humanities and calls for greater dialogue and cross-fertilisation Law has long been a principal way of studying the human world. Before the rise of modern social science, speculation about society,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Keeping it human means working very closely with abuse survivors and listening carefully to transform their problems into solutions, says Professor Jill Marshall. As part of his leading contribution to this issue of Talking Humanities, David Sugarman (The humanities...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Carl Stychin, director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, introduces a selection of articles that describe how the humanities provide a vital sensibility for cutting edge legal scholarship today. The contributors to this issue of Talking Humanities...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Features, Politics & Law
Can movies right the wrongs of miscarriages of justice inflicted by legal systems? They have the dramatic and persuasive tools that are increasingly helpful, writes Dr Mara Malagodi, assistant professor with The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Law is photogenic: it...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Michael Thomson, professor of health law at the University of Technology Sydney and chair in health law with the University of Leeds, looks to interdisciplinary dialogue to understand aspects of health care. In his leading contribution to this issue of Talking...
