by Talking Humanities | Oct 16, 2018 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement
Sebastian Groes, professor of English literature at the University of Wolverhampton, goes ‘snidge scrumpin’ for the lost odours of the Black Country while charting a new 21st-century palate in his memorably named Being Human event, Snidge Scrumpin’: mapping smell and...
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 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...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 4, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications
Rights for women: London’s pioneers in their own words is a free exhibition at Senate House Library (SHL), which runs from 16 July–15 December. It explores the famous and also lesser-known stories of more than 50 female pioneers who used London as a platform to...
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 | 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...
