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...
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...
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...
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...
