by Talking Humanities | Oct 12, 2017 | Being Human festival, Digital, Features, Public Engagement
Image: © Genna Naccache Genna Naccache discusses the motivations behind the ‘Lost rights, found justice? Refugee and migrant rights’ photography competition and exhibition, one of the events in the School of Advanced Study’s 2017 Being Human festival of the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 3, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
The life of Robert Edward Hart, one of the UK’s most prolific collectors of rare books and coins, was truly, and perhaps deliberately, lost for the 70 years since his death. As part of the 2017 Being Human festival of the humanities, researchers from the School of...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 4, 2017 | Being Human festival, Features, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Alexander Pardey says some people think his career choice is ‘insane’ and is sometimes inclined to agree. But, argues the actor, ‘ In what other profession can you dress up as a pirate to entertain young children in the morning, then recite Homer’s Odyssey and...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 1, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Public Engagement, Republished
What was it like for people in the past before home pregnancy testing was available? Dr Isabel Davis, senior lecturer in medieval and Renaissance literature at Birkbeck, University of London, looks at the history of conception during the 18th and 19th centuries...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 29, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
What does it mean to be normal? Dr Sarah Chaney talks about the history of being normal, cultural relativity and how the concept of normality has changed over time. ‘Am I normal?’ seems to be a defining question in modern western culture, across every area of human...
