by Talking Humanities | Jan 15, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources
We are so used to today’s definitive texts that it is easy to forget how elusive in the early modern period a definitive text can be. Indeed, literary experts still argue about whether early volumes of Shakespeare are the same play or different versions. It’s...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 13, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Publications
In this excerpt from ‘Radical Collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions’, a new book re-examining the roots of collections, Alycia Sellie, an associate librarian at City University of New York’s Graduate Center Library,...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 20, 2018 | Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Republished
How did Britain’s colonial past impact Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) communities around the world? ‘Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope’, the latest book from the Human Rights Consortium at the Institute...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 31, 2018 | Features, Languages & Literature, Publications
Europeans and North Americans may be loath to give up their Latin American stereotypes, but the accessibility of sophisticated Mexican shows to foreign audiences may, slowly, work against the clichés says Professor Paul Julian Smith. Most unusually Mexican television...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications
The abolition of slavery was the catalyst for the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations. The first wave arrived in Mauritius in 1834, followed by Guyana (1838) and...
by Talking Humanities | May 31, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
‘The King is dead, long live the King!’, the traditional proclamation to announce the death of a monarch and herald the incoming replacement, could well have been used to announce the political demise of President Robert Mugabe on 21 November 2017, and the swift...
