by Talking Humanities | Jul 12, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
John Gledhill, emeritus professor at Manchester University, says that in winning the presidency of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the National Regeneration Movement have managed to produce more of a tsunami than a landslide. ‘But predicting the likely...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 7, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished
Dr Elizabeth Dearnley, a lecturer at UCL’s School of European Languages, Culture and Society, explores the remarkable life of Mavis Batey, Bletchley Park code-breaker and garden historian. ‘Hello, we’re breaking machines. Have you got a pencil? Here, have...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 5, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Image (© 2018 Richard Price) Though Suriname’s Saamaka people have already achieved a remarkable victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that guarantees their right to their territory and the rainforests within it, the state’s continued push towards...
by Talking Humanities | May 8, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement, Republished
Professor Richard Marggraf Turley explains how ‘self-tracking’ inspired him to develop ‘The Vortex’ – a machine that analyses our reactions to sublime and Gothic works. ‘I’ve got chills, they’re multiplying,’ sang John Travolta, dancing off with Olivia Newton John at...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 11, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Philosophy, Republished
Image: Étienne Delaune (c. 1518–1583), Plate 14 from the series The Genesis showing the building of the Tower of Babel. Engraving, 1550–1572. © The Trustees of the British Museum Ahead of their sell-out live discussion at the British Museum on 26 January scientists...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 4, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Republished
On the 58th anniversary of Albert Camus’ death author and journalist Montague Kobé remembers one of the greatest novelists and essayists of the 20th century. Guided by a major concern for the meaning of life, Albert Camus examined with the curiosity (or maybe it was...
