by Talking Humanities | Aug 15, 2019 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications
What do Rihanna, Janelle Monáe and the futurists have in common? A belief in the future and in the aesthetic and political power of technology, argues Dr Katia Pizzi, author of Italian futurism and the machine. After the end of the First World War, the Italian...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 6, 2019 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
‘Flash Histories’, a recent symposium at the University of Bristol, brought together historians, creative writers and heritage professionals to explore short-form history. Topics included history as poetry, museum labelling, and the value of brief lives in an age of...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 23, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Dr Maria Castrillo and Rebecca Simpson introduce Senate House Library’s new exhibition, ‘Writing in Times of Conflict’. It highlights the power of words to achieve peace and reconciliation in response to conflicts – a very topical theme and quite extensively covered...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 9, 2019 | Digital, Features
We’ve all heard about the digital revolution in the arts and humanities: digital humanities some call it, a major part of which is using computers to conduct data-driven analyses of complex materials like literature. ‘There are a lot of drawbacks (and benefits) to...
by Talking Humanities | May 28, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Projects, Training and Research
Dr Ainhoa Montoya, a lecturer at the Institute of Latin American Studies, and international lawyer and researcher, Constanza Pauchulo, report on a project that created a database of legal actions relating to mining conflicts in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 16, 2019 | Digital, Features, Music, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Dr Martin Glynn, of Birmingham City University, has pioneered the use of spoken word, jazz, hip hop, and reggae theatrics to communicate and disseminate research data. He explains why ‘It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it; that’s what gets results,’ sang...
