by Talking Humanities | Dec 9, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Events, Interviews, The Social Scholar, Training and Research
This month at the Social Scholar seminar we will be joined by Dr Nick Barratt, director of collections and engagement at Senate House Library. The medieval historian, who will be talking about personal heritage and the use and limitations of digital resources, has...
by aseifert | Oct 20, 2015 | Digital, Events, The Social Scholar
The Social Scholar is a free lunchtime seminar series discussing all things ‘social’ within humanities research. We are privileged to have Mia Ridge for our first session of the autumn term talking about the worth of crowdsourcing as part of research projects. This...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 10, 2015 | Features, History & Classics, Projects
Dr Carlos López Galviz leads the School of Advanced Study’s Reconfiguring Ruins project, which aims to provide a critical reflection on the contemporary explosion of interest in ruins across the arts and humanities. Now it is nearing its end, Dr Galviz thinks it’s a...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 10, 2015 | Features, Philosophy, Research & Resources, The Human Mind Project
The Human Mind Project hosted by the School of Advanced Study (SAS), recently secured substantial funding from the Higher Education Council for England (Hefce). Dr Mattia Gallotti, the Project’s manager and a researcher in philosophy of mind and society, writes about...
by aseifert | Jun 18, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Ministry of Information Digital, Research & Resources
This blog post by Dr Henry Irving, Institute of English Studies, explains how the Second World War Ministry of Information approached one of its most difficult tasks. The British government faced a terrifying prospect in the summer of 1940. Following the rapid...
by aseifert | May 13, 2015 | CenSes, Interviews, Philosophy, Research & Resources
Dr Ophelia Deroy, associate director of the Institute of Philosophy and researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Senses, talks about her research around people’s reluctance to eat insects, which she has been working on in association with food visionary, Ben...
