by aseifert | Feb 13, 2014 | Digital, Events, The Social Scholar
Don’t forget that on Wednesday 19 February at 1pm (in room 246, Senate House) we will be delving into the world of social media with Kathryn Box and Kajsa Hartig. The session focuses on sharing information about social media between academics, librarians, archivists,...
by aseifert | Feb 10, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Interviews, Philosophy, The Human Mind Project
Professor Colin Blakemore’s work branches out into a plethora of disciplines delving into the mechanisms of the brain, thought and perception, in his role as Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study. As a renowned neuroscientist with a...
by aseifert | Feb 6, 2014 | Digital, Events, The Social Scholar
The next Social Scholar seminar will take place at 1pm on 19 February 2014 in room 246 (Senate House). This month we will be looking at how two different museums use social media and how this might be of interest to academics, archivists, librarians and other related...
by aseifert | Feb 4, 2014 | Events, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Training and Research
If you are a History postgraduate or early career researcher and would like to learn more about managing your research, then please sign up to the Institute of Historical Research’s forthcoming workshop on managing your research. The workshop includes presentations...
by aseifert | Jan 30, 2014 | Graduate Study, History & Classics, Training and Research
Are you thinking about studying History at Masters Level? The national research centre for History, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) are now offering three different Masters courses for you to choose from. MA Historical Research The IHR have long run a...
by aseifert | Jan 28, 2014 | Philosophy, The Human Mind Project
The Human Mind is an ambitious international and multidisciplinary project representing a coordinated effort to define the major intellectual challenges in understanding the nature and significance of the human mind. Central to the project is the importance of...
by aseifert | Jan 23, 2014 | Events, History & Classics
A guest post by Justin Bengry (Birkbeck/McGill) While numerous seminars at the Institute for Historical Research have long welcomed papers from historians of sex and sexuality, no single seminar provided for a broader dialogue on the subject across region, period and...
by aseifert | Jan 21, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement, Training and Research
One of my favourite Christmas gifts this year was a copy of Barry Miles’s book London Calling: a countercultural history of London since 1945. It’s a very good book to read on the tube—whilst squashed up in communal but often uncomfortable proximity to one’s fellow...
by aseifert | Jan 16, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, The Human Mind Project
The Human Mind Project launched on 12 December 2013 with a well-attended public evening panel session held at Senate House, London. The project seeks to co-ordinate an international effort to define the major intellectual challenges in understanding the nature and...
by aseifert | Jan 14, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics
Last week Education Secretary, Michael Gove ignited a new row claiming that the television comedy Blackadder fed ‘left-wing’ myths about World War One. In the Daily Mail Gove argued that ‘The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also...
