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...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 20, 2016 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Image: The Dig for Victory stall. Dr Henry Irving, senior lecturer in public history at Leeds Beckett University, reflects on his recent collaboration with a community allotment site. Public engagement can take many forms. This is one of its great strengths, and can...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 29, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks
In his second look at the rhino-horn trade debate, Professor Keith Somerville, applauds a recent announcement that rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park is on the decline. But is it really a downward trend, or just a re-orientation by poachers in the face of...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 1, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Image: Michael Ohajuru, Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Dr Eva Namusoke, Dr Sumita Mukherjee As part of this year’s Being Human humanities festival, academics from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) and the University of Bristol, have joined forces to form the...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 2, 2016 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Image: Students deliver their presentations in the final session of ‘To be’: the ESOL Shakespeare Project’ Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen shines a spotlight on the finale of an innovative ESOL project, which was held over two sites and involved 15...
