by Talking Humanities | Oct 13, 2015 | Being Human festival, Features, Republished
The full independent Being Human 2014 report, including recommendations, is available to view here. We’re pleased to present an independent evaluation of last year’s Being Human festival of the humanities, especially because it reports that the festival was...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 8, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement
Earlier this year, Dr Michael Eades, was invited to show selected materials from his AHRC-funded research project, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: engaging socially isolated people with dementia, at Leeds College of Art. The ‘Festival in a Box: archives’ exhibition,...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 6, 2015 | Being Human festival, Features, Republished
Orkney was largely untouched by the Highland Clearances, but Rousay saw the clearance of two townships by George William Traill in the mid-19th century. Dr Keir Strickland looks back on a guided summer walk on Rousay, part of the Being Human event, ‘Landscapes of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 1, 2015 | Digital, Interviews, Research & Resources
Digital technologies hold huge potential for disabled artists, says Dr Chris Creed, but no studies to date have investigated their impact on practice for physically impaired visual artists. Here, he explains how his research is exploring the potential of these novel...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 24, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
From 16 October onwards, the School of Advanced Study will host a free exhibition of photographs depicting the work of Honduran artist Javier Espinal at Senate House. Dr Cornelia Gräbner, who lectures in Hispanic studies and comparative literature at Lancaster...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 17, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features
Michael Pidd overseas the work of HRI Digital at the University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute. He has been working on the Digital Panopticon project, which involves bringing together a large body of third-party data, and believes there is still a...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 10, 2015 | Features, History & Classics, Projects
Dr Carlos López Galviz leads the School of Advanced Study’s Reconfiguring Ruins project, which aims to provide a critical reflection on the contemporary explosion of interest in ruins across the arts and humanities. Now it is nearing its end, Dr Galviz thinks it’s a...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 3, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications
Dr Nick Barratt, previously head of medieval, early modern, legal, maps and photographs at The National Archives, is now responsible for developing Senate House Library’s collection and public engagement strategy. It was an enormous pleasure and privilege to take...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 27, 2015 | History & Classics, Publications
The latest volume of the Victoria County History (VCH) has been published. Entitled, Queen Camel and the Cadburys, this is the 11th volume of the Victoria County History of Somerset and is edited by Mary Siraut. The volume promises a comprehensive account of the ten...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 20, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
A long time ago I started writing my PhD thesis on the French thinker Georges Bataille, who was mainly known for his pornographic writings and his links to the French Surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s. But Bataille was also a political thinker, with a...
