by Talking Humanities | May 8, 2019 | History & Classics, Interviews, Politics & Law, Researcher Series
Dr Majed Akhter, a lecturer in environment and society at King’s College London, talks about his work examining the contentious history of dams built in the 20th century, from the Colorado River, to Ghana, to the Indus, and the politics of international development....
by Talking Humanities | Apr 30, 2019 | Interviews, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, one of the six research centres affiliated to the Institute of Modern Languages Research, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year with a series of events that show the variety of its work. Below, its...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 2, 2019 | Human Rights, Interviews, Public Engagement
Dr Ella Parry-Davies, a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, talks about her research on the historical and social context of performance. She is one of ten 2019 New Generation Thinkers whose research will be made into...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 22, 2019 | Digital, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
MPhil/PhD student Francielle Carpenedo, on her work at the Institute of Modern Languages Research and affiliation with its ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ project. In September 2017, I was awarded an MPhil/PhD studentship as part of the Arts and...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 22, 2018 | History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature
Dr Daisy Black, an English lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, talks about her research, which focuses on medieval and Renaissance drama, and gender and queer theory. She is one of the ten 2018 New Generation Thinkers whose research will be made into radio...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 6, 2018 | Being Human festival, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished
Dr Anna-Louise Milne, director of graduate studies and research at University of London Institute in Paris, provides some insights into her public engagement work with refugees and migrants in Paris, and her work with the School of Advanced Study’s Being Human...