by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Interviews, Libraries & Publications
Elizabeth Flower, an associate at Haworth Tompkins, the architectural practice working on the ‘Warburg Renaissance’ project, explains what goes into designing a library today. Which library projects has your practice worked on? How do they fit into your overall...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 26, 2020 | Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law
Lindsay Alexander at the University of London talks to master’s graduates about how their human rights degrees opened up their personal and professional lives. The area of human rights is constantly evolving. As awareness of human rights infractions around the world...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 12, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Tripurdaman Singh, who holds a British Academy Fellowship at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, has just published his new book Sixteen Stormy Days, exploring one of the pivotal events in Indian political history. As India marks the 70th anniversary of the...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 30, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
Founded in 1790, the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) offers aid to writers in financial distress. Its beneficiaries have included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mervyn Peake, and Dylan Thomas. One of the Fund’s major donors was A A Milne, who left the rights to Winnie the Pooh...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 14, 2020 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Dr Tom Smith, a lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews, opens up about his insatiable love of languages and his research into the constructions of race in Berlin’s techno scene. Tell us about yourself I first discovered my love of languages as a...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 24, 2019 | Digital, Interviews, Politics & Law, Republished
Postdoctoral researcher Dr Damian Clifford underscores some challenges with the current legal framework in addressing commercial practices such as ‘puffing’. He also recounts a few highlights from the Information Law and Policy Centre’s (ILPC)* annual conference, and...
