by uoladmin | Aug 16, 2022 | History & Classics, Uncategorized
Professor Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR History today is challenging, complex, and creative; it is collaborative, energetic and purposeful. In a world that stumbles from crisis to crisis, historical analysis is more critical than ever before. Only by...
by uoladmin | Aug 16, 2022 | History & Classics
By Professor Catherine Clarke, Director of the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community Understanding our places – their past, present and possible futures – has never been more firmly on the political agenda than today. The so-called ‘Place Agenda’...
by uoladmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The broad field of arts and humanities still possesses this capacity to take us away from what is known By Professor Ruth Livesey It would be exaggerating to say rereading a novel by Anthony Trollope saved my professional life in summer 2021. But there was a moment of...
by uoladmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ethical issues are at the forefront of experimental humanities. By Professor Ophelia Deroy Maja is cruising in a new self-driving car. In the back is her baby son, singing and giggling. An overhead, electric cable has fallen on the side of the road, and the car will...
by uoladmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
How should vaccines be distributed between countries? By Professor Jo Wolff A funny thing happened around March 2020. Anyone who had worked on the ethics of healthcare resource allocation, bioethics, or global health ethics was suddenly treated as a holder of...
by uoladmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Understanding the complex science of environmental change is one of the most crucial tasks our generation faces By Professor Joanna Page In New York’s Union Square, the Climate Clock counts down to the deadline at which zero emissions need to be reached to keep global...
by uoladmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
We can do better in providing a clear conception of projects in the humanities By Professor Barry C Smith It is often said by funders keen to encourage more successful applications from the humanities that they wish to see bold and ambitious proposals. Too often in...
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...
