by Talking Humanities | Mar 2, 2017 | Comms Team, Events, History & Classics, Public Engagement
The government’s announcement toward the end of 2016 that it was going to drop the art history A-level as part of a cull of ‘soft’ subjects, shocked the art world. One reprieve later, Hannah Marynissen and Lisa Marie Deml from the Courtauld Institute of Art, says...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 7, 2017 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
We live in a world where labelling an activity, person, or group of people with the word ‘radicalism’ suggests something negative, abhorrent, aberrative and inherently dangerous. Such an understanding of these two words have perhaps always been true, although it is...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 12, 2016 | Events, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, research fellow at the School of Advanced Study’s Centre for Postcolonial Studies, provides a brief introduction to an innovative poetry event that will address a topic most of us have difficulty talking about – bereavement. In the final...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 10, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Public Engagement
The migrant experience is often one of loss, leaving homes and family for a life somewhere new, unknown and loaded with potential. In this post, Eithne Nightingale discusses the research involved in her Being Human festival event Child migrant stories, which...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 7, 2016 | Events, History & Classics, PotW
Cities Beaches – Cities @ SAS When: Thursday 10 November 2016, 10am – 3.30pm Who: Institute of Historical Research Where: Wolfson Conference Suite, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU We are hosting an informal workshop on...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 4, 2016 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Image: John Blanke – black trumpeter to Henry VII and Henry VII. Detail from Westminster Tournament Roll 1511, © College of Arms used with permission Michael Ohajuru is a fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London’s School of Advanced...
