by Talking Humanities | May 26, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Human Rights, Politics & Law
On 8 May elections for the Beirut Municipality took place in Lebanon. Dr Claire Launchbury, a specialist in French and cultural studies, whose research concentrates on Beirut, explains that while it might not seem a grand affair in terms of power stakes, it was an...
by Talking Humanities | May 24, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, Research & Resources, Training and Research
With historical Hansard fully searchable by speaker and party for the first time, thanks to the ‘Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data’ project based at the Institute of Historical Research, it is now possible easily to explore how particular issues have been...
by Talking Humanities | May 19, 2016 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Image created using tagxedo.com Dr James Hadley, researcher in translation/translingual studies at the School of Advanced Study, gives a taster of a ground-breaking new project on the world of legal translation that is bringing together the expertise of the Institute...
by Talking Humanities | May 17, 2016 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Public Engagement, Research & Resources, The Social Scholar, Training and Research
The New Generation Thinkers scheme is an annual competition run jointly by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and BBC Radio 3 to give ten early career researchers from across the arts and humanities the chance to get their research onto broadcast media....
by Talking Humanities | May 5, 2016 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Image: left to right from standing Alex Curry (PhD Candidate ILAS), Gibran Cruz-Martinez (ILAS), Kavyta Raghunandan, Eva Namusoke (both ICWS),Esther Lopez (ILAS), Julian Burger (HRC) A successful collaboration last year, between academics from the School of Advanced...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 12, 2016 | Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Image from St. Marcella’s church, Denbigh Sarah Ward scrutinises the history and culture of Wales, and challenges the popular image of Wales and the Welsh. Who is a Welshman? When you picture him in your mind, do you see a serious, chapel-going miner? When you...
