by Talking Humanities | Oct 5, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights
Image: Mural at the Centro Utopia, cultural centre of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) On 17 September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It may not have...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 19, 2017 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law
Begun in 1834 and abolished in 1917, the system of indenture created Indian diasporic communities in three continents. Professor David Dabydeen, a pioneer of Indian-Caribbean studies as a discipline in the UK and a leading poet of the Indian-Caribbean experience, is...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 26, 2017 | Events, Languages & Literature, PotW
When: Wednesday 28 June, 6-8pm Who: Institute of English Studies Where: The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU In the last hundred years Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. How did these changes...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 22, 2017 | Events, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Sonya Rahaman, MPhil/PhD research student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and coordinator of its Human Rights Researchers’ Network, discusses the current challenges facing the human rights movement and explains why more academics are engaging in...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 19, 2017 | Events, Music, PotW
When: Thursday 13 July 2017, 7pm Who: Senate House Library Where: Beveridge Hall, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU ‘If there’s a more enterprisingly theatrical vocal group than this one, I’ve yet to encounter it…’ – The Telegraph BBC Proms...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2017 | Events, PotW
When: Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 June, 12 – 12.15pm Who: Centre for the Study of Postcolonial Studies Where: Outside Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU This exhibition, held in conjunction with Senate House Library, is part of a...
