by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Research isn’t something that should be hidden away from prying eyes, writes Professor Sarah Churchwell. As chair of public understanding of the Humanities at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study she knows the value of built-in feedback from the public,...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Research & Resources
By Professor Eve Patten, director of Trinity College Dublin’s Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute When the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin was invited to contribute to this blog, it gave...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics
By Ludmilla Jordanova, emeritus professor of history and visual culture at Durham University One of the costs of professionalisation is the erection of boundaries. Sometimes these are necessarily rigid – everyone knows something about health, some people know a great...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Philosophy
By Robert Newman, president and director of the National Humanities Center For many years we have heard alarming news about the crisis in the humanities. The number of humanities majors in colleges and universities has declined steadily and, because of supply and...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 13, 2021 | Analysis & Comment
King’s College London PhD student Sandra Araya Rojas explores the 19th-century colonisation programme implemented by the Chilean state in indigenous territories. Last month’s grim discovery of the remains of 250 children at Kamloops Indian Residential...
by Talking Humanities | May 13, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Publications, Research & Resources
As the year-long calendar of events to mark the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante gets underway, Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books, looks at Virgil, the prominent character in the great poet’s epic work, The Divine Comedy. The literary...
