by Talking Humanities | May 30, 2017 | Digital, Events, Features, Research & Resources
Image: © Shutterstock Given the fragility of web data, and the increasing difficulty to access it freely, how can we establish online evidence as facts, historical evidence or truth?, asks Dr Anat Ben-David, a senior lecturer at the Open University of Israel. She is...
by Talking Humanities | May 29, 2017 | Events, Languages & Literature, PotW
When: Wednesday 31 May 2017, 6.30 – 8.30pm Who: Institute of English Studies Where: The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Presented by Jon Gilbert, author of the award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliography, antiquarian book dealer...
by Talking Humanities | May 22, 2017 | Events, Languages & Literature, PotW
When: Wednesday 24 May 2017, 6 – 8pm Who: Institute of English Studies Where: The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Crossing palaeographical borders: bi-alphabetical Hebrew scribes and manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern...
by Talking Humanities | May 11, 2017 | Events, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Interviews, The Social Scholar
The School of Advanced Study’s ‘social scholar’ lunchtime seminar returns on 17 May with Dr Peter Jones offering a fascinating discussion on converting research into a form that can be used for teaching school children. Below, Peter hints at what to expect. Could you...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Public Engagement
Image: IHR’s pop-up portrait exhibition of London women historians Despite two wide-ranging feminist movements, the position of women historians – both as subjects of historical study, and as modern-day researchers and teachers – still leaves much to be desired,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 9, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
In the first of a series of articles focusing on the growing hostility to journalistic independence across the Commonwealth, journalist and Africa analyst Martin Plaut, calls on the 52-nation group to take a more robust view on these new threats. Do they challenge...
