by Talking Humanities | Oct 16, 2018 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement
Sebastian Groes, professor of English literature at the University of Wolverhampton, goes ‘snidge scrumpin’ for the lost odours of the Black Country while charting a new 21st-century palate in his memorably named Being Human event, Snidge Scrumpin’: mapping smell and...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 27, 2018 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
With under eight weeks to go before the start of the UK-wide Being Human festival, Dr Sara Brooks, professional specialist in global and public humanities at Princeton University, outlines the North American version of the festival, its cultural similarities and how,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 22, 2018 | Features, Interviews, Public Engagement
On 28 March the School of Advanced Study’s public engagement team will host a celebratory ‘graduation’ event at Senate House with Arts Emergency (AE), the educational charity that helps aspiring students from disadvantaged backgrounds ‘counter the myth that...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 31, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Image: Mihály Munkácsy – Un Vagabond de Nuit , c.1872, (left); Etching by T. Smith, 1816 (right) Peter T A Jones, early career lecturer in urban history at the Institute of Historical Research’s Centre for Metropolitan History, sets out the agenda for the ‘Stray...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 12, 2017 | Being Human festival, Digital, Features, Public Engagement
Image: © Genna Naccache Genna Naccache discusses the motivations behind the ‘Lost rights, found justice? Refugee and migrant rights’ photography competition and exhibition, one of the events in the School of Advanced Study’s 2017 Being Human festival of the...