by Talking Humanities | Dec 1, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Visiting research fellow, Dr Juanita Cox, provides an update on a project exploring the importance of the Windrush generation in higher education and the complex story of Caribbean migration. During the Commonwealth Summit in London in April 2018, a major controversy...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 26, 2020 | Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law
Lindsay Alexander at the University of London talks to master’s graduates about how their human rights degrees opened up their personal and professional lives. The area of human rights is constantly evolving. As awareness of human rights infractions around the world...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 13, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
For this year’s Being Human festival Dr Amy Kellam, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is hosting two events on domestic abuse (see below). My colleagues and I use films – like ‘Gaslight’ – to explore the UK’s upcoming...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 30, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Human Rights
We think of artists as visionaries, trailblazers, provocateurs, but how often do we think of them as human rights defenders? How often do we hear of attacks on artists and equate them to an attack on free expression? Laura Kauer García, a student on the School of...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 26, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Nilakshi Srivastava, a student at the National Law Institute University in Bhopal investigates India’s domestic violence statistics, which have risen during the Covid-19 lockdown. It is a known fact that in India women are at the lowest rung of the patriarchal,...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 11, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Research fellow Syed Badrul Ahsan explores the tragic and painful fault lines underpinning modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. In these monsoon days of August in what once was the Indian subcontinent, memories of the blood-drenched division of India come alive. Or,...
