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A human rights degree that can change lives while righting wrongs

A human rights degree that can change lives while righting wrongs

by Talking Humanities | Nov 26, 2020 | Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law

Lindsay Alexander at the University of London talks to master’s graduates about how their human rights degrees opened up their personal and professional lives. The area of human rights is constantly evolving. As awareness of human rights infractions around the world...
How techno got caught up in German assumptions around race

How techno got caught up in German assumptions around race

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...
Claiming space for lesbian, bisexual and queer feminists

Claiming space for lesbian, bisexual and queer feminists

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...

#PoTW:Children of the Windrush Generation

by Talking Humanities | May 6, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW

The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British Empire, socioeconomic migrants, family reunions and marriage, refugees...
#PoTW:  Public commemoration and women’s history

#PoTW: Public commemoration and women’s history

by Talking Humanities | Apr 23, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW

When: 1 May 2018, 6–8.30pm Who: Institute of Historical Research Where: IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU How are women remembered, commemorated and celebrated in public? How is this different from...

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