by Talking Humanities | Jan 17, 2017 | Features, Research & Resources
Statistics reveal that black Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to be unarmed when killed during encounters with police. This is one of the most dramatic examples of how implicit stereotypes, usually consciously disavowed, influence behaviour...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 10, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law
Image: Frenchman’s Cove, Porland, Jamaica © Merlin John Author, blogger and columnist Montague Kobbé, examines the enduring appeal of Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys’ postcolonial novel and one of the great prequels of world literature. When Jean Rhys published...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 4, 2017 | Being Human festival, Features, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Alexander Pardey says some people think his career choice is ‘insane’ and is sometimes inclined to agree. But, argues the actor, ‘ In what other profession can you dress up as a pirate to entertain young children in the morning, then recite Homer’s Odyssey and...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 15, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Image: © Copyright Lloyd Sturdy Dr Anna-Louise Milne, director of graduate study and research at the University of London Institute in Paris, writes about a series of translation workshops coordinated by the Paris Centre for Migrant Writing and Expression with asylum...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 12, 2016 | Events, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, research fellow at the School of Advanced Study’s Centre for Postcolonial Studies, provides a brief introduction to an innovative poetry event that will address a topic most of us have difficulty talking about – bereavement. In the final...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 6, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature, Republished
Mary Going, a PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield, discusses The Blood of the Vampire, a unique novel creating a female vampire that offers something different to Dracula, Lucy Westenra and Carmilla. She believes the novel deserves a place within the...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 1, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Public Engagement, Republished
What was it like for people in the past before home pregnancy testing was available? Dr Isabel Davis, senior lecturer in medieval and Renaissance literature at Birkbeck, University of London, looks at the history of conception during the 18th and 19th centuries...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 29, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
What does it mean to be normal? Dr Sarah Chaney talks about the history of being normal, cultural relativity and how the concept of normality has changed over time. ‘Am I normal?’ seems to be a defining question in modern western culture, across every area of human...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 24, 2016 | Digital, History & Classics, Interviews, Republished, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Elizabeth Savage is British Academy postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in book history and communications at the Institute of English Studies (IES), a member of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. In 2016, she won the Wolfgang Ratjen Award for...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 22, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, Interviews, Public Engagement, Republished
We wanted to know a bit more about the phantasmagoric fear-fest at the University of Dundee hub, which is part of the School of Advanced Study’s Being Human festival of the humanities. Based on the works of author H G Wells, its offering includes an autopsy on...
