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Resisting systemic racism by decolonising modern languages

Resisting systemic racism by decolonising modern languages

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...
We have to deploy modern languages in confronting our challenges

We have to deploy modern languages in confronting our challenges

by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature

Modern languages in the UK is at a crucial stage in its development, write Institute of Modern Languages Research director Professor Charles Burdett and Professor Claire Gorrara, dean of research and innovation at Cardiff University. If the discipline is to ‘thrive...
Rehumanising scholarship

Rehumanising scholarship

by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Research & Resources

Dr Farhan Samanani, an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, tests himself in a very public way – by working through a commercial publisher This isn’t about me – this is about the value of knowledge in a hurting...
The SHAPE-ID Interdisciplinary Research Toolkit

The SHAPE-ID Interdisciplinary Research Toolkit

by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Research & Resources

By Professor Eve Patten, director of Trinity College Dublin’s Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute When the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin was invited to contribute to this blog, it gave...
Permeable worlds and territoriality

Permeable worlds and territoriality

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...
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