by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics
By Ludmilla Jordanova, emeritus professor of history and visual culture at Durham University One of the costs of professionalisation is the erection of boundaries. Sometimes these are necessarily rigid – everyone knows something about health, some people know a great...
by Talking Humanities | May 26, 2020 | Events, Features, Languages & Literature, Music
Ahead of her 30 May livestreamed concert as part of the OWRI Cross-Language Dynamics project at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, harpist Tamsin Dearnley reflects on her experiences moving between different musical traditions in Britain, France and Japan –...
by Talking Humanities | May 30, 2019 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Researcher Series
Dr Dina Rezk, associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history and politics at the University of Reading, would like the conversation about politics and political transitions in the Arab world to be more about the people, and less about ‘tanks, tear gas, and...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 18, 2019 | History & Classics, PotW
When: 22 March, 12–2pm Who: Institute of Historical Research Where: Outside the Prince Albert, 11 Pembridge Road, W11 3H (nearest tube – Notting Hill Gate) Organised by Layers of London, the Institute of Historical Research’s map-based history project, this...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 15, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature
Language is the main form of communication and expression between humans. But for Indigenous peoples, explains Cheryl Bellisario, an alumna of the School of Advanced Study’s MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights, it is also intimately and fundamentally...
