by Talking Humanities | May 14, 2019 | Events, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature
The struggle continues at the 15th biennial Women in French UK (WiF) conference, ‘Women and Power in French and Francophone Cultures and Societies’, at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 17–19 May. Professor Shirley Jordan provides some background about the formation...
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 | May 9, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Fellowships & Networks, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Image: bus burned by gang members in El Salvador. ES James/Shutterstock.com The level of violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala in recent years has been second only to Syria – but unlike Syria, they are not countries at war. Criminal violence in the ‘northern...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 30, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Fellowships & Networks, From the Archives, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Dr Cynthia Johnston discusses the benefits of the ‘academic partnership’ between the Institute of English Studies and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, which she says has resulted in the rediscovery of a major research resource in the UK. In 2014, the Institute of...
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 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...
