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The power of listening: how survivors’ voices can transform human rights

The power of listening: how survivors’ voices can transform human rights

by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Keeping it human means working very closely with abuse survivors and listening carefully to transform their problems into solutions, says Professor Jill Marshall. As part of his leading contribution to this issue of Talking Humanities, David Sugarman (The humanities...
Where law meets the humanities

Where law meets the humanities

by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Professor Carl Stychin, director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, introduces a selection of articles that describe how the humanities provide a vital sensibility for cutting edge legal scholarship today. The contributors to this issue of Talking Humanities...
Bursting the humanities bubble to resist decline

Bursting the humanities bubble to resist decline

by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Philosophy

By Robert Newman, president and director of the National Humanities Center For many years we have heard alarming news about the crisis in the humanities. The number of humanities majors in colleges and universities has declined steadily and, because of supply and...
Rozina Islam and the need for re-energised journalism

Rozina Islam and the need for re-energised journalism

by Talking Humanities | May 25, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law

The arrest of Rozina Islam, one of Bangladesh’s most prominent investigative journalists, is an assault on all reporters argues Syed Badrul Ahsan, associate research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Rozina Islam’s confinement at Bangladesh’s ministry...
I A Rehman: South Asia loses another bold voice

I A Rehman: South Asia loses another bold voice

by Talking Humanities | Apr 23, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law

I A Rehman, a journalist, prominent human rights activist and former general secretary of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, passed away in Lahore on 12 April. Syed Badrul Ahsan, editor-in-charge of The Asian Age, pays tribute to his work and some of South...
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