by Talking Humanities | Oct 9, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Dr Zena Kamash (Royal Holloway) reports on a project which uses crafting and textiles as a thoughtful and therapeutic means of responding to the destruction of Iraqi cultural heritage. What do you do when you see your heritage being destroyed in conflict? As a British...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 2, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Republished
Dr Philip Carter, senior lecturer at the Institute of Historical Research, remembers the nine women whose commitment to education made them pioneers in women’s higher education. At 2pm on 15 May 1869, the 17 examiners of the University of London (UoL) gathered...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 27, 2018 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
With under eight weeks to go before the start of the UK-wide Being Human festival, Dr Sara Brooks, professional specialist in global and public humanities at Princeton University, outlines the North American version of the festival, its cultural similarities and how,...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 25, 2018 | Features, Politics & Law, Republished
Lorraine Talbot, professor of company law in context at the University of Birmingham, applauds Labour and John McDonnell’s radical plans to tackle inequality. The shadow chancellor’s conference speech on 24 September set out the Labour Party’s radical new...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 20, 2018 | Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Republished
How did Britain’s colonial past impact Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) communities around the world? ‘Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope’, the latest book from the Human Rights Consortium at the Institute...
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...
