by Talking Humanities | May 8, 2019 | History & Classics, Interviews, Politics & Law, Researcher Series
Dr Majed Akhter, a lecturer in environment and society at King’s College London, talks about his work examining the contentious history of dams built in the 20th century, from the Colorado River, to Ghana, to the Indus, and the politics of international development....
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...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 8, 2019 | Bloomsbury Festival, Digital, Features, Human Rights, Public Engagement, Republished
To celebrate International Women’s Day, researcher and artist Dr Elizabeth Dearnley explores the ideas behind the Bloomsbury Festival’s ‘Senate Women’ audio installation. It tells the stories of ten women working in Senate House. In a series of interviews recorded...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 20, 2018 | Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Republished
How did Britain’s colonial past impact Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) communities around the world? ‘Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope’, the latest book from the Human Rights Consortium at the Institute...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 14, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics
With the summer holiday season in swing, Dr Karen Attar takes a look at a journal in Senate House Library by a woman who protested that ‘she had no skill whatever in authorship’. It took England by storm when first published widely 150 years ago in 1868: Queen...