by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
As long ago as 1492 a scholar pointed out ‘Language always escorted the empire’. It’s not enough to just recognise that: it’s time for action, write Durham academics Durham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) launched its decolonisation initiatives in the...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
The Open World Research initiative (OWRI) has left rich legacies to build on, writes Professor Janice Carruthers, dean of research in arts, humanities and social sciences at Queen’s University Belfast I have just completed a four-year period as priority area...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature
Modern languages in the UK is at a crucial stage in its development, write Institute of Modern Languages Research director Professor Charles Burdett and Professor Claire Gorrara, dean of research and innovation at Cardiff University. If the discipline is to ‘thrive...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2021 | Features, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
The humanities are often on a back foot when it comes to the ‘phoney’ dichotomy with the sciences, but the evidence shows this shouldn’t be the case, argues Professor Sarah Churchwell As my title, which does what it says on the tin, explains, I am a professor of...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
In the era of ‘fake news’, history needs a good grounding by its publics, writes Professor Suzannah Lipscomb ‘Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.’ George Orwell, 1984 Bad history is the preserve of the charlatan....
by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Dr Farhan Samanani, an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, tests himself in a very public way – by working through a commercial publisher This isn’t about me – this is about the value of knowledge in a hurting...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Research isn’t something that should be hidden away from prying eyes, writes Professor Sarah Churchwell. As chair of public understanding of the Humanities at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study she knows the value of built-in feedback from the public,...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Laurence Worms, owner of Ash Rare Books since 1971 and past president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, on a partnership that spans some 12 years. The Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA) has long had a problem with the lack of training opportunities...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Dr David Pearson, retired librarian and creator of the electronic database, Book Owners Online, talks about the rewards of teaching and how his summer school students helped to hone his thinking and knowledge. Teaching on the London Rare Books School (LRBS) run the...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Amy Kaufman, head law librarian at the William R. Lederman Law Library, Queen’s University, Ontario, remembers her first London Rare Books School. I had been a law librarian at a Canadian university for about ten years when I first heard about the Institute of...
