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 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...
by Talking Humanities | May 6, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British Empire, socioeconomic migrants, family reunions and marriage, refugees...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 29, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, PotW
This premiere of a specially devised piece will bring to life some of the original theatre material from the Miller Archive, which comprises materials and recordings relating to the careers of Austrian Jewish exiles, Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller. Delving...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 22, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, PotW, Public Engagement
Activists, enthusiasts, students and scholars are invited to come and join the conversation about Mary Wollstonecraft’s legacy on 27 April, the 260th anniversary of her birth. The day’s programme reveals a great line-up of speakers (see list below) who will...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 1, 2019 | Events, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
Accountability in humanitarian action is a hot topic. The 2016 World Humanitarian Summit called for more vigorous accountability, with reference to the Core Humanitarian Standard, which was launched a year earlier. And an assumed lack of accountability was further...
