by Talking Humanities | Jun 26, 2017 | Events, Languages & Literature, PotW
When: Wednesday 28 June, 6-8pm Who: Institute of English Studies Where: The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU In the last hundred years Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. How did these changes...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 22, 2017 | Events, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Sonya Rahaman, MPhil/PhD research student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and coordinator of its Human Rights Researchers’ Network, discusses the current challenges facing the human rights movement and explains why more academics are engaging in...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 20, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Research & Resources, SAS Space Data Repository, Training and Research
Lisa Davies introduces Law PORT and its collection of online training resources. It is the latest addition to the School of Advanced Study’s platform for Postgraduate Online Research Training (PORT). Since its foundation in 1947 the librarians at the Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 19, 2017 | Events, Music, PotW
When: Thursday 13 July 2017, 7pm Who: Senate House Library Where: Beveridge Hall, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU ‘If there’s a more enterprisingly theatrical vocal group than this one, I’ve yet to encounter it…’ – The Telegraph BBC Proms...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 15, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Discipline, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Dr Joseph Harley, EHS Postan Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, bemoans the fact that although the poor made up well over half of the British population during the early modern period, archives contain very little information on them. For a historian...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 13, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Image: © Shutterstock Martin Luther’s old house in Wittenberg, now a museum Dr Karen Attar, curator of Senate House Library’s ‘Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings’ exhibition, is looking forward to showing off the library’s riches of 16th- and...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2017 | Events, PotW
When: Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 June, 12 – 12.15pm Who: Centre for the Study of Postcolonial Studies Where: Outside Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU This exhibition, held in conjunction with Senate House Library, is part of a...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 8, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Projects, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Image: © Saira Awan – family lives of residents on the Gascoigne Estate taken for London’s Open Estate Festival Want to see what your street was like 300 years ago, or discover the location of ancient remains in places you pass through every day? What...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 6, 2017 | Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law
Image: © Shutterstock A few days ago, the United Nations passed a Resolution on the role of professional translation in connecting nations and fostering peace, understanding and development. According to Belarus, the country that presented the draft, the Resolution is...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 1, 2017 | Interviews, Philosophy, Research & Resources, The Human Mind Project
Dr Mattia Gallotti, manager of ‘The Human Mind Project’ at the School of Advanced Study, discusses the launch of the first Grand Challenges Public Consultation on the key questions in the study of the mind. Open to early-career and established researchers, and the...
