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Domestic abuse in popular music: from Ma Rainey to Rhianna

Domestic abuse in popular music: from Ma Rainey to Rhianna

by Talking Humanities | Nov 13, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources

For this year’s Being Human festival Dr Amy Kellam, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is hosting two events on domestic abuse (see below). My colleagues and I use films – like ‘Gaslight’ – to explore the UK’s upcoming...
Humanities at home: virtual museums, online learning and isolation creations

Humanities at home: virtual museums, online learning and isolation creations

by Talking Humanities | Apr 1, 2020 | Being Human festival, Digital, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement

As the world goes on lockdown Rose de Lara,  projects and communications officer for the School of Advanced Study’s Being Human Festival, explores various ways to enjoy the humanities at home. Over the past few weeks we’ve witnessed the extent to which people...
Weaving life back into Orkney tweed

Weaving life back into Orkney tweed

by Talking Humanities | Dec 3, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Republished

Professor Sarah Pedersen from Robert Gordon University’s School of Creative and Cultural Business, and Professor Andrea Peach of Konstfack University in Stockholm, chart the rise and fall of the Orkney tweed industry and the stories that were uncovered at their Being...
Classified ads to club culture – what archives reveal about queer history

Classified ads to club culture – what archives reveal about queer history

by Talking Humanities | Nov 21, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources

The legal and social pressures exerted on LGBTQ+ people to suppress their desire and loves may have had success in the eyes of their oppressors. But the subcultures it created are rich and varied and recorded in ways that don’t take much to research and share. And an...
Why squeezes on humanities and their status should raise stress levels

Why squeezes on humanities and their status should raise stress levels

by Talking Humanities | Nov 19, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished

Geoffrey Crossick, distinguished professor of the humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, argues that in the west we ‘now live in societies where nuance and complexity seem unwelcome, where simple answers to complex realities are the...
Making Medusa and the tale of the snake-haired Gorgon

Making Medusa and the tale of the snake-haired Gorgon

by Talking Humanities | Nov 14, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Publications, Republished, Research & Resources

For this year’s Being Human festival, the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) is putting on a free event in London in partnership with Islington’s Little Angel Theatre and puppeteer-storyteller Tinka Slavicek. Making Medusa, which takes place on 17 November at Little...
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