by Talking Humanities | Nov 13, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
For this year’s Being Human festival Dr Amy Kellam, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is hosting two events on domestic abuse (see below). My colleagues and I use films – like ‘Gaslight’ – to explore the UK’s upcoming...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 19, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
Geoffrey Crossick, distinguished professor of the humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, argues that in the west we ‘now live in societies where nuance and complexity seem unwelcome, where simple answers to complex realities are the...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 7, 2019 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished
Thirty years after the Cold War barrier was removed, Dr João Florêncio, a lecturer at the University of Exeter, and Ben Miller, a writer and researcher, consider the origins of the ‘legend of Berlin’ and how the newly undivided city provided queer folk...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 30, 2019 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
Martina Caruso and Harriet O’Neill, assistant directors at the British School at Rome, kick off the international season of this year’s Being Human festival with a photo essay of their Open Valley walk at the Valle Giulia. On 11 October, the British School at Rome...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 10, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement
Dr Elizabeth Dearnley, a researcher at University College London and an artist specialising in audio installations, revisits the spiritual home of British journalism. London’s Fleet Street has been associated with printers and bookbinders for hundreds of years, ever...
