by Talking Humanities | Dec 31, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources
To protect people from the impact of climate change and bring about transformation, we need educational institutions to train a new breed of policymakers, managers and scientists who can ‘steer this planet towards less emissions and less waste, while creating...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 8, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Keith Somerville reports on a trip to Damaraland in Namibia, where drought and rising temperatures threatens thousands of people and domestic animals but has created “opportunities for lions to thrive”. Driving through a series of communal conservancies in...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 8, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
About 50,000 years ago, Britain had great forests and populations of megafauna that most people would find it hard to believe inhabited this country, says Professor Keith Somerville, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. They included the...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 15, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: © Commonwealth Secretariat In the seventh of a series of scholarly articles marking the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, Dr Nicholas Watts, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) , examines the...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 22, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
Professor Sarah Churchwell, the School of Advanced Study’s chair of public understanding of the humanities and director of its Being Human festival, says the sciences and the humanities are ‘not opposed, but deeply complementary and interdependent sets of knowledge.’...
