by Talking Humanities | Jun 3, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, PotW
‘It soon come’, runs the refrain in Linton Kwesi Johnson’s 1974 poem ‘Time Come’. ‘It soon come / look out! look out! look out!’. In the Institute of Historical Research’s 2019 Wiley Lecture, Dr Rob Waters will draw on the research for his new book, Thinking Black:...
by Talking Humanities | May 27, 2019 | Events, Politics & Law, PotW, Public Engagement
Jointly organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and the Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools (CHULS) this workshop, aimed at law school managers and leaders, will focus on wellbeing challenges in relation to performing those leadership roles. Some...
by Talking Humanities | May 22, 2019 | Events, Features, Languages & Literature
Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, co-director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW), previews one of the unmissable events celebrating the centre’s 10th anniversary. ‘Across languages’, a major international conference in the Institute of Modern...
by Talking Humanities | May 20, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, PotW, Public Engagement
Many art historians, among the most famous of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, have used the graphic instrument to study art in all its forms (architecture, painting, sculpture …), but that fact is often ignored. For example, Carl Jacob...
by Talking Humanities | May 14, 2019 | Events, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature
The struggle continues at the 15th biennial Women in French UK (WiF) conference, ‘Women and Power in French and Francophone Cultures and Societies’, at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 17–19 May. Professor Shirley Jordan provides some background about the formation...
by Talking Humanities | May 13, 2019 | Events, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW, Public Engagement
Organised by the School of Advanced Study’s Human Rights Consortium (HRC), the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and the University of Glasgow’s Human Rights Network, this conference is a one of a series of three aimed at postgraduate students working...
