by Talking Humanities | May 10, 2016 | Events, Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Republished
With Shakespeare’s works being regarded as ‘universal classics’, it is perhaps not surprising that they have so often been staged across the Channel, says French studies lecturer Dr Dominic Glynn, who is leading an exploration of the Bard from a French perspective at...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 8, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, History & Classics
At the end of March around 90 academics gathered at the architecturally fascinating Robinson College in Cambridge for the annual meeting of the Urban History Group. Dr Tom Hulme, early career lecturer in urban history at the Institute of Historical Research, came away...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Image: Illustration from Richard Foulkes, The Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1864 With just over two weeks until the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death on 23 April 1616, Professor Sir Brian Vickers, one of the UK’s most distinguished Shakespearian scholars,...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 11, 2016 | Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, Research & Resources, Training and Research
The London Arts and Humanities Partnership, which is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), encompasses the School of Advanced Study (SAS), King’s College London (King’s), and University College London (UCL). Dr Claire Thomson, who is currently...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 7, 2016 | Graduate Study, Human Rights
Niresha Umaichelvam’s dissertation proposal to investigate domestic violence from a South Asian woman’s perspective, won the £200 prize at the School of Advanced Study’s Human Rights Consortium’s first ‘research SOUP’ event. Below, the City University Master’s student...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 3, 2015 | Graduate Study, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Training and Research
Abe Ncube has just completed the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights degree offered by SAS’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) for which he was awarded the Albie Sachs Prize for best dissertation. He explains how he used Zimbabwe as a case study to...
