by Talking Humanities | Feb 22, 2017 | Digital, The Social Scholar
The School of Advanced Study’s ‘social scholar’ lunchtime seminar returns on 8 March with what promises to be a fascinating and enjoyable talk by Professor Kiera Vaclavik (Queen Mary, University of London) about how academics can successfully turn their research into...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 16, 2017 | Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
‘A Return to the Village: Community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective’, edited by Dr Francisco Ferreira with the American anthropologist Professor Billie Jean Isbell, has just been published by the Institute of Latin American Studies. Dr...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 14, 2017 | Graduate Study, Human Rights, Training and Research
Photo by Sophie Giffard, taken with permission Megan Cowley, a recent graduate of the Understanding and Securing Human Rights master’s degree offered by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, was awarded the 2016 Albie Sachs Prize for best dissertation. She describes...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 9, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
It used to be known as HRI Digital, now it is called The Digital Humanities Institute. Michael Pidd, who leads the team at the University of Sheffield’s digital humanities centre, explains why. On 17 January 2016, HRI Digital changed its name to The Digital...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 7, 2017 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
We live in a world where labelling an activity, person, or group of people with the word ‘radicalism’ suggests something negative, abhorrent, aberrative and inherently dangerous. Such an understanding of these two words have perhaps always been true, although it is...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 3, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Since the inauguration of President Trump sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have increased by 9,500 per cent, and at the time of publication it is still at the top of Amazon’s American best seller lists. But what might new readers learn from it?, asks Dr Marc Patrick...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Professor Keith Somerville reviews Robin Lustig’s highly personal memoir, which describes a career spanning more than 40 years, from his childhood as the son of German refugees to interviewing some of the world’s most revered and reviled leaders – from Nelson Mandela...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 26, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Republished
Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles: ©Avillfoto / Shutterstock Yellow-gold swagged curtains, glimpsed in the first pictures from the Trump administration’s official duties in the Oval Office, have fuelled speculation over whether America’s new president will bring...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 24, 2017 | Graduate Study, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Rachael Anne Roberts, a student on the School of Advanced Study’s MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights, retraces the history of human rights activism in Bloomsbury by walking in the footsteps of some of its past residents. London has a rich history of human...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 19, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
This week sees the launch of the Humanities Digital Library, a new open access publishing platform for scholarly books. The Library is an initiative of the School of Advanced Study (SAS), led by the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the Institute of Advanced...
