by Talking Humanities | Jan 30, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
Founded in 1790, the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) offers aid to writers in financial distress. Its beneficiaries have included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mervyn Peake, and Dylan Thomas. One of the Fund’s major donors was A A Milne, who left the rights to Winnie the Pooh...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 5, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Republished, Research & Resources, Training and Research
The purpose of Eduardo Ho-Fernández’s two months at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) at the School of Advanced Study was to expand on two Renaissance research projects on intersections in linguistic and literary analysis. But he gained much more than...
by Talking Humanities | May 28, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Projects, Training and Research
Dr Ainhoa Montoya, a lecturer at the Institute of Latin American Studies, and international lawyer and researcher, Constanza Pauchulo, report on a project that created a database of legal actions relating to mining conflicts in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 3, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Amid the stresses of classes, essay writing, deadlines, and preparing for upgrade exams, postgraduate students whose work focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean face an additional challenge: preparing for their first fieldwork trip. It can become something of a...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 25, 2018 | Features, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
The Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) is a hub of research training activities, enabling the next generation of linguists and scholars in modern languages, literatures, and cultures to maximise their research skills. One of the institute’s most popular...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 21, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Training and Research
Strengthened deterrence at the southern US border, increased deportations to Honduras and El Salvador, and a political crisis in Nicaragua. ‘Where can displaced people in Central America find safety?’ asks Suzanna Nelson-Pollard, a researcher on...
