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The humanities and law: more intertwined than you might think 

The humanities and law: more intertwined than you might think 

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,...
The power of listening: how survivors’ voices can transform human rights

The power of listening: how survivors’ voices can transform human rights

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...
Where law meets the humanities

Where law meets 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...
How legal briefs find new life in celluloid

How legal briefs find new life in celluloid

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...
From ‘heartbeats’ to bounty hunters – the legal complexities of abortion

From ‘heartbeats’ to bounty hunters – the legal complexities of abortion

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...
Books, buildings and big data

Books, buildings and big data

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Professor Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, introduces a cluster of essays on the future of libraries. The library is dead, long live the library. At once in vogue and under threat, libraries are under pressure as never before. Here in Britain, budget...
Books and buildings, if not big data, the Durning-Lawrence Library

Books and buildings, if not big data, the Durning-Lawrence Library

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Senate House Library’s rare books librarian, Dr Karen Attar, considers the move of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence’s library from his home in Carlton House to its place in Senate House. How do books and the areas designed to hold them interrelate? How does the physicality...
Metadata: giving new access to old books and images

Metadata: giving new access to old books and images

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Research & Resources

A digital library needs to be housed with as much care and attention as its physical counterpart, even if the bricks and mortar of its buildings are no more than bits and bytes, says  Dr Richard Gartner, Warburg Institute’s digital librarian. A solid, carefully...
‘De-silting’ libraries – releasing space to future-proof for the digital age

‘De-silting’ libraries – releasing space to future-proof for the digital age

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Interviews, Libraries & Publications

Elizabeth Flower, an associate at Haworth Tompkins, the architectural practice working on the ‘Warburg Renaissance’ project, explains what goes into designing a library today. Which library projects has your practice worked on? How do they fit into your overall...
Research libraries as sites of collaboration

Research libraries as sites of collaboration

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Jane Winters, the School of Advanced Study’s professor of digital humanities and director of the new Digital Humanities Research Hub, describes her work on a joint report on libraries as sites of collaboration. In 2021, Research Libraries UK, in partnership with the...
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