by Talking Humanities | Apr 14, 2021 | Events, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law
As part of the School of Advanced Study’s ‘Open for Discussion’ series, the Institute of Modern Languages Research is holding two public events on 22 and 27 April to debate the lessons that can be learned by looking beyond our borders and languages. The first,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 8, 2021 | Languages & Literature
Challenging the male canon means recognising that women’s writing is not a genre reserved for women readers, and that there are no ‘women’s topics’, says Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, co-director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW)....
by Talking Humanities | Feb 12, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Christopher Ohge delves into the multiple levels and meanings of a classic piece of American literature. ‘About the “whaling voyage”—I am half way in the work, & am very glad that your suggestion so jumps with mine. It will be a strange sort of a...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 10, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar is fascinated by a rare Senate House Library autobiography full of art, politics and scandal. Like any venerable institution, the University of London accrues a variety of artworks. For example, it holds various sculptures: marble busts of Victorian...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 25, 2021 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
Dr Elizabeth Dearnley discusses the eerier side of the capital and her recent book Into the London Fog, ahead of her upcoming online talk at the City of Westminster Libraries and Archives. Near the beginning of Hitchcock’s 1927 silent chiller The Lodger, respectable,...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 17, 2020 | Features, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Actor Jack Tarlton looks back on this year’s virtual theatre workshops Playing with Prose, introducing two new festive-themed plays created by participants. As we approach Christmas in this strangest of years, it somehow feels right to present two short Christmas...
