by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Keeping it human means working very closely with abuse survivors and listening carefully to transform their problems into solutions, says Professor Jill Marshall. As part of his leading contribution to this issue of Talking Humanities, David Sugarman (The humanities...
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, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Should historians talk to government? It’s tempting to turn this question around and ask instead whether government should talk to historians, writes Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley. Priya Satia, in her brilliant Time’s Monster, has made a compelling case that governments...
by Talking Humanities | May 26, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
Before there was Armistead Maupin, there was Valerie Taylor. Jennifer Dentel, researcher and curator at Chicago’s Gerber/Hart library and archive, on America’s first great author of books published in the lesbian pulp fiction genre. It was 1953 and Velma Nacella Young...
by Talking Humanities | May 25, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The arrest of Rozina Islam, one of Bangladesh’s most prominent investigative journalists, is an assault on all reporters argues Syed Badrul Ahsan, associate research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Rozina Islam’s confinement at Bangladesh’s ministry...
by Talking Humanities | May 11, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
In the 17th-century, Europe is in the throes of a love affair with the colour black. A rich, dark shade that could only be achieved by farming the palo campeche tree found in the Yucatan region in modern-day Mexico. In this article, New World Objects of Knowledge...
