by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2018 | History & Classics, Interviews, Research & Resources
In October 2017, the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) hosted ‘Why do we need monsters?’ which presented some of the latest research on ancient monsters to a non-specialist audience. The event is still enjoying an afterlife, having inspired an anthology of fiction...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 5, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Image: © Commonwealth Foundation Priya N Hein talks about her fictionalised account of Britain’s shameful treatment of the Chagos islanders in the second of our series of interviews with the contributors to ‘We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications
The abolition of slavery was the catalyst for the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations. The first wave arrived in Mauritius in 1834, followed by Guyana (1838) and...
by Talking Humanities | May 22, 2018 | Interviews, Philosophy, Research & Resources
Dr Gulzaar Barn explores the ethics of the buying and selling of ‘bodily labour’ such as commercial surrogacy, live organ donation and paid participation in clinical trials, and how concern about these services might make the body out of bounds. Tell us about...
by Talking Humanities | May 3, 2018 | History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature
Dr Elsa Richardson, one of ten academics selected by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as a New Generation Thinker, examines the history of nutrition, digestive health and emotional wellbeing. Tell us about yourself I am an historian of medicine...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 5, 2018 | Interviews
Environmental historian Dr Ben Anderson, discusses his research around the explosion in mountain leisure among English and German-speaking Europeans in the 19th and 20th centuries. I am an environmental historian based at Keele University, whose central curiosity lies...
