by Talking Humanities | Jul 22, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources
Earlier in her career, Professor Linda Newson, director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, wrote extensively on the devastating demographic impact of ‘Old World’ diseases in colonial Latin America following the arrival of Europeans. In the current Covid-19...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 15, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Professor Henning Melber explores the German version of colonial amnesia, which he says is not about a lack of historical research, but a failure to acknowledge – emotionally and politically – what is known. The German colonial empire was...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 24, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Dr Laura Cleaver, senior lecturer in manuscript studies and principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded CULTIVATE MSS project at the Institute of English Studies, on why sending unwanted statues to museums isn’t necessarily a solution....
by Talking Humanities | Jun 22, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Diversity expert, Dr Felicity Daly, is wary of Boris Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’ vision in light of the merger of the world’s leading aid agency into the Foreign Office and hopes this new ‘super department’ does not forget Britain’s legacy and unfinished business. A...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 16, 2020 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
With 70 million fellow citizens displaced, and 25 million of them refugees, our help is urgently needed, writes Dr Sarah Singer, a senior lecturer at the School of Advanced Study’s Refugee Law Initiative research centre. In today’s world, refugees are never far from...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 9, 2020 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Syed Badrul Ahsan, associate research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, explores the politics of skin colour. The colour black has been seared into the human consciousness as an embodiment of all that is negative, indeed is a manifestation of evil....
