by Talking Humanities | Nov 13, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
For this year’s Being Human festival Dr Amy Kellam, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is hosting two events on domestic abuse (see below). My colleagues and I use films – like ‘Gaslight’ – to explore the UK’s upcoming...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 25, 2018 | Features, Politics & Law, Republished
Lorraine Talbot, professor of company law in context at the University of Birmingham, applauds Labour and John McDonnell’s radical plans to tackle inequality. The shadow chancellor’s conference speech on 24 September set out the Labour Party’s radical new...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Public Engagement
Image: IHR’s pop-up portrait exhibition of London women historians Despite two wide-ranging feminist movements, the position of women historians – both as subjects of historical study, and as modern-day researchers and teachers – still leaves much to be desired,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 20, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: Damara Zebras at Chudop waterhole, Etosha, Namibia. Wikimedia Commons Professor Henning Melber tries to find something that ‘the land of wide open spaces’, Namibia, can celebrate on its 27th anniversary of independence. Most visitors to Namibia are impressed....
