by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
The Open World Research initiative (OWRI) has left rich legacies to build on, writes Professor Janice Carruthers, dean of research in arts, humanities and social sciences at Queen’s University Belfast I have just completed a four-year period as priority area...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature
Modern languages in the UK is at a crucial stage in its development, write Institute of Modern Languages Research director Professor Charles Burdett and Professor Claire Gorrara, dean of research and innovation at Cardiff University. If the discipline is to ‘thrive...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Laurence Worms, owner of Ash Rare Books since 1971 and past president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, on a partnership that spans some 12 years. The Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA) has long had a problem with the lack of training opportunities...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Amy Kaufman, head law librarian at the William R. Lederman Law Library, Queen’s University, Ontario, remembers her first London Rare Books School. I had been a law librarian at a Canadian university for about ten years when I first heard about the Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Philosophy
By Robert Newman, president and director of the National Humanities Center For many years we have heard alarming news about the crisis in the humanities. The number of humanities majors in colleges and universities has declined steadily and, because of supply and...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 15, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Ireland has been in the press a lot in connection with Brexit, trade and borders. The July feature of the month from Senate House Library is ‘L’Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse’, a former bestselling monograph about an earlier Ireland which...
