by Talking Humanities | Jun 30, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, scrolls through the digital library of Augustus De Morgan to see what books the mathematician and mathematical historian annotated, when and how. If a company wanted to produce a...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Matthew Shaw, Joanna Ashe, David Gee and Dr Raphaële Mouren, reflect on the challenges faced by the School of Advanced Study’s (SAS) libraries during lockdown, and look ahead to the way things will change. Among the novel activity of the...
by Talking Humanities | May 26, 2020 | Events, Features, Languages & Literature, Music
Ahead of her 30 May livestreamed concert as part of the OWRI Cross-Language Dynamics project at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, harpist Tamsin Dearnley reflects on her experiences moving between different musical traditions in Britain, France and Japan –...
by sams | May 12, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
As increasing numbers of epidemiologists and journalists highlight the UK government’s consistently missed opportunities to tackle the spread of Covid-19, Dr Joseph Ford, early career researcher at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, wonders why...
by Talking Humanities | May 7, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Languages & Literature, Publications, Research & Resources
Curator at Senate House Library Dr Karen Attar teases out what makes this novel different, including marriage and morality and clinical depression. One hundred and fifty years ago the final part of Anthony Trollope’s The Vicar of Bullhampton appeared – in accordance...
by Talking Humanities | May 5, 2020 | Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, acting director of the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), discusses the institute’s new online resources and the importance of keeping connected in a time of uncertainty. As Being Human’s director Professor Sarah Churchwell...
