by Talking Humanities | Sep 1, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Image: Michael Ohajuru, Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Dr Eva Namusoke, Dr Sumita Mukherjee As part of this year’s Being Human humanities festival, academics from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) and the University of Bristol, have joined forces to form the...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 30, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Image: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1. (1797). The Great Fire of London, public domain, Yale Centre for British Art It may be tempting fate to revisit a fire in a library, but as part of this autumn’s Being Human festival, the Institute of Historical Research is...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 5, 2016 | Events, Features, Languages & Literature, Republished, Research & Resources
Professor Line Cottegnies, who took part in a ‘Shakespeare in French’ conference organised by Dr Dominic Glynn and Senate House Library, discusses some of the problems she encountered when translating the Henry VI trilogy for the Pléiade-Gallimard edition of...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 23, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Of the thousands of propaganda posters produced during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), one stands out for Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri, a lecturer in the School of English, University of St Andrews. This anonymous poster, which is signed R A and was produced for the...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 13, 2016 | Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature
Such was the demand for the three-day Aby Warburg 150 Conference (13–15 June), organised by The Warburg Institute, part of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, that organisers had to relocate the event to a larger venue to accommodate the attendees....
by Talking Humanities | May 10, 2016 | Events, Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Republished
With Shakespeare’s works being regarded as ‘universal classics’, it is perhaps not surprising that they have so often been staged across the Channel, says French studies lecturer Dr Dominic Glynn, who is leading an exploration of the Bard from a French perspective at...
