by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
As long ago as 1492 a scholar pointed out ‘Language always escorted the empire’. It’s not enough to just recognise that: it’s time for action, write Durham academics Durham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) launched its decolonisation initiatives in the...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 14, 2020 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Dr Tom Smith, a lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews, opens up about his insatiable love of languages and his research into the constructions of race in Berlin’s techno scene. Tell us about yourself I first discovered my love of languages as a...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 1, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Dr Felicity Daly reflects on the first Global Feminist LBQ Women’s* Conference, which took place last month in Cape Town, South Africa. If it seems surprising that there hasn’t been a global conference such as this before perhaps it is a measure of the invisibility...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 23, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Music, Politics & Law, Republished
What was the music of the women’s suffrage campaign? Who were the leading female composers and musicians of the 1910s and 20s? What was their contribution to the suffrage cause? On 1 November, the Institute of Historical Research and Senate House Library will co-host...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 2, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Republished
Dr Philip Carter, senior lecturer at the Institute of Historical Research, remembers the nine women whose commitment to education made them pioneers in women’s higher education. At 2pm on 15 May 1869, the 17 examiners of the University of London (UoL) gathered...
