by aseifert | Jul 24, 2014 | Digital, Politics & Law, Publications
It is hard to define what a typical day in the life of magazine, newspaper or journal editor is like. Here, after a year with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Student Law Review, Ronan Cormacain gives his views. My name is Ronan Cormacain and I am the Editor...
by aseifert | Jul 17, 2014 | Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Interviews, Training and Research
Every year the School of Advanced Study (SAS) welcomes more than 800 research fellows and associates, this year Frédérique Woerther, an international expert in ancient Greek rhetorical theories and their Medieval Arabic interpretations, was one of them. By Frédérique...
by aseifert | Jul 15, 2014 | Being Human festival, Digital, Public Engagement, Publications
Dr Martin Paul Eve–co-founder of the Open Library of the Humanities and editor of the open access journal Alluvium—reflects on “open access”, engagement, and the politics of information management in a digital age. The academic disciplines that constitute the...
by aseifert | Jul 10, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Digital, Public Engagement
By Professor Barry C. Smith What do you think of when someone tells you that they’re a scientist or an artist? You probably don’t know exactly what they do – there is huge variety in the arts and the sciences – but you have a rough idea. Compare this with someone...
by aseifert | Jul 8, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Public Engagement
Between 24-29 June, festival curator Dr Michael Eades spent six days at Glastonbury Festival – supervising an installation created for the School of Advanced Study’s 2013 Bloomsbury Festival. Six days of enduring mud, crowds, and lightning storms offered the perfect...
by aseifert | Jul 3, 2014 | Fellowships & Networks, Interviews, Politics & Law, Training and Research
Earlier this year Dr. Lawrence A. Joseph, constitutional law expert and now President of Grenada’s Senate, joined the School of Advanced Study as ST Lee Visiting Fellow. In this guest post Dr. Joseph tells us more about himself and his time with us. Could you tell us...
by aseifert | Jun 27, 2014 | History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Ministry of Information Digital, Training and Research
The instruction to ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ has become one of the most recognisable slogans in British history. The phrase has reinforced a popular view of life in the Second World War and has been reproduced on everything from champagne flutes to smartphone cases. A...
by aseifert | Jun 24, 2014 | History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Projects
The Ministry of Information (MOI) is the focus of a major AHRC-funded research project being undertaken by Professor Simon Eliot of the Institute of English Studies in collaboration with Paul Vetch of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. On...
by aseifert | Jun 24, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Public Engagement
By Professor Rick Rylance The humanities are all around us – in the books and newspapers we read, the programmes, the plays and the films we watch, the concerts we listen to, the exhibitions we visit, and so much more. They are there less obviously but equally...
by aseifert | Jun 19, 2014 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
The School of Advanced Study are pleased to announce the release of InScribe Module 2: Script. This is the second instalment from the online platform InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials and follows the introductory module released in January 2013....
