by Talking Humanities | Apr 3, 2018 | Interviews
Dr Iain smith, a film studies lecturer at King’s College London and one of ten academics selected by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as a New Generation Thinker, explains how his late night viewings of old Godzilla films reinforced his desire...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 27, 2018 | History & Classics, Interviews
Dr Sarah Goldsmith (above) talks about her work which focuses on the history of masculinity and the 18th-century. She is one of BBC Radio 3’s ten 2018 New Generation Thinkers whose research will be made into radio and television programmes for the BBC, in...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 22, 2018 | Features, Interviews, Public Engagement
On 28 March the School of Advanced Study’s public engagement team will host a celebratory ‘graduation’ event at Senate House with Arts Emergency (AE), the educational charity that helps aspiring students from disadvantaged backgrounds ‘counter the myth that...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 5, 2017 | History & Classics, Interviews, Music
Kepler’s Trial, an opera based on The Astronomer and the Witch by Professor Ulinka Rublack, tells the extraordinary story of Katharina Kepler (1546–1622), whose celebrated astronomer son, Johannes, defended her against accusations of witchcraft. It is the culmination...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 19, 2017 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law
Begun in 1834 and abolished in 1917, the system of indenture created Indian diasporic communities in three continents. Professor David Dabydeen, a pioneer of Indian-Caribbean studies as a discipline in the UK and a leading poet of the Indian-Caribbean experience, is...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 14, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications
Jane Roberts is a senior research fellow in the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of English Studies (IES) and emeritus professor of English language and medieval literature, University of London. She has recently published Kane from Canada, the memoir of George...