by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Philosophy
By Robert Newman, president and director of the National Humanities Center For many years we have heard alarming news about the crisis in the humanities. The number of humanities majors in colleges and universities has declined steadily and, because of supply and...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 15, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Ireland has been in the press a lot in connection with Brexit, trade and borders. The July feature of the month from Senate House Library is ‘L’Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse’, a former bestselling monograph about an earlier Ireland which...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 13, 2021 | Analysis & Comment
King’s College London PhD student Sandra Araya Rojas explores the 19th-century colonisation programme implemented by the Chilean state in indigenous territories. Last month’s grim discovery of the remains of 250 children at Kamloops Indian Residential...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 8, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Publications, Research & Resources
As pandemic restrictions begin to be lifted and attending concerts is permitted, Dr Karen Attar celebrates with a book on music, Charles Burney’s ‘A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period’. The copy shown here belonged to...
by Talking Humanities | May 26, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
Before there was Armistead Maupin, there was Valerie Taylor. Jennifer Dentel, researcher and curator at Chicago’s Gerber/Hart library and archive, on America’s first great author of books published in the lesbian pulp fiction genre. It was 1953 and Velma Nacella Young...
by Talking Humanities | May 25, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The arrest of Rozina Islam, one of Bangladesh’s most prominent investigative journalists, is an assault on all reporters argues Syed Badrul Ahsan, associate research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Rozina Islam’s confinement at Bangladesh’s ministry...
by Talking Humanities | May 13, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Publications, Research & Resources
As the year-long calendar of events to mark the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante gets underway, Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books, looks at Virgil, the prominent character in the great poet’s epic work, The Divine Comedy. The literary...
by Talking Humanities | May 11, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
In the 17th-century, Europe is in the throes of a love affair with the colour black. A rich, dark shade that could only be achieved by farming the palo campeche tree found in the Yucatan region in modern-day Mexico. In this article, New World Objects of Knowledge...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 27, 2021 | Features, Philosophy, Politics & Law
Alongside their Instagram takeover @artlawnetwork this week, Marie-Andrée Jacob, professor of law at Leeds University and Dr Anna Macdonald, a dance and moving image artist from the Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, reflect upon their...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 23, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
I A Rehman, a journalist, prominent human rights activist and former general secretary of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, passed away in Lahore on 12 April. Syed Badrul Ahsan, editor-in-charge of The Asian Age, pays tribute to his work and some of South...
