by uoladmin | Aug 16, 2022 | History & Classics, Uncategorized
Professor Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR History today is challenging, complex, and creative; it is collaborative, energetic and purposeful. In a world that stumbles from crisis to crisis, historical analysis is more critical than ever before. Only by...
by uoladmin | Aug 16, 2022 | History & Classics
By Professor Catherine Clarke, Director of the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community Understanding our places – their past, present and possible futures – has never been more firmly on the political agenda than today. The so-called ‘Place Agenda’...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Usama Gad, classics and papyrology lecturer at Cairo’s Ain Shams University, calls on scholars to overturn tradition and harness the power of new digital tools to include the voices of the whole human family. The digital culture of digital humanities, in my case in...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Professor David Sugarman traces the bonds between law and the humanities and calls for greater dialogue and cross-fertilisation Law has long been a principal way of studying the human world. Before the rise of modern social science, speculation about society,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Carl Stychin, director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, introduces a selection of articles that describe how the humanities provide a vital sensibility for cutting edge legal scholarship today. The contributors to this issue of Talking Humanities...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Should historians talk to government? An apparently straightforward question that’s actually far from it – unpacking the position ‘not talking to government’ gets us started, writes Dr Alix Green, reader in history at the University of Essex. The simplest argument for...
