by Talking Humanities | Jun 7, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished
Dr Elizabeth Dearnley, a lecturer at UCL’s School of European Languages, Culture and Society, explores the remarkable life of Mavis Batey, Bletchley Park code-breaker and garden historian. ‘Hello, we’re breaking machines. Have you got a pencil? Here, have...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 5, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Image (© 2018 Richard Price) Though Suriname’s Saamaka people have already achieved a remarkable victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that guarantees their right to their territory and the rainforests within it, the state’s continued push towards...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 4, 2018 | History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Music, PotW
Join us at Senate House on 8 June for a music recital of relevant French repertoire by outstanding young pianist, Alexander Soares. This event, part of the ‘Surrealism and music in France, 1924–52: interdisciplinary and international contexts’ conference organised by...
by Talking Humanities | May 31, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
‘The King is dead, long live the King!’, the traditional proclamation to announce the death of a monarch and herald the incoming replacement, could well have been used to announce the political demise of President Robert Mugabe on 21 November 2017, and the swift...
by Talking Humanities | May 29, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Philosophy, Politics & Law
‘All men by nature desire to know,’ wrote Aristotle. But in this post-truth era where fake news abounds, emotions trump facts, and the truth has allegedly ceased to matter, we might wonder, says Dr Michael Hannon, how important is knowledge in daily life. Even...
by Talking Humanities | May 28, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
In recent years, a rich wave of scholarship has been examining representations of ‘blackness’ in the visual cultures of the Atlantic world. It is an avenue of enquiry particularly germane to Latin America and the Caribbean, home to the world’s largest...
