by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | History & Classics, Politics & Law
Should historians talk to government? Professor of British and Commonwealth history, Philip Murphy, introduces the tensions underlying the relationship between historians and politicians. As an academic discipline, history can be thought of as something between a game...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Should historians talk to government? It’s tempting to turn this question around and ask instead whether government should talk to historians, writes Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley. Priya Satia, in her brilliant Time’s Monster, has made a compelling case that governments...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature
A ‘Global Britain’ needs to invest in upgrading and expanding its multilingual capacity and that should begin by showing respect for the array of languages used by members of our diverse communities, says Professor Li Wei, director and dean of the UCL Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Languages & Literature
It is no secret that every area of the humanities is experiencing significant change. Questions concerning the coherence, identity, and purpose of modern languages are certainly the subject of a great deal of debate within the education sector. This edition of Talking...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Languages & Literature
‘Gardening in a gale’ was the great language educator Eric Hawkins’s metaphor to describe practitioners’ experience of teaching languages. Ten years later, following Brexit and the pandemic, and in the midst of a hapless policy landscape, what was a gale now feels...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
As long ago as 1492 a scholar pointed out ‘Language always escorted the empire’. It’s not enough to just recognise that: it’s time for action, write Durham academics Durham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) launched its decolonisation initiatives in the...
