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...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 6, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Public Engagement
Ahead of the 2020 Oscars, there is talk of the threat that streaming poses to traditional forms of cinema-going. This, however, is nothing new. The cinema industry has long been subject to fluctuations in audience figures, as Dr Sam Manning discovered in research for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
