by Talking Humanities | Jul 7, 2020 | Digital, Events, Features, Languages & Literature, Projects, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Ahead of July’s Playing with Prose workshop, actor Jack Tarlton discusses his first experience of running a virtual theatre workshop as the world went into lockdown – and reflects on the ways on which it connected students around the world. In the weeks before the UK...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 10, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, PotW, Research & Resources
Self-translation was a widespread phenomenon in early modern Europe, but remains largely uncharted in modern scholarship. There have been isolated studies of important figures – mainly literary authors such as Leon Battista Alberti, Joachim Du Bellay or John Donne....
by Talking Humanities | Jul 31, 2018 | Features, Languages & Literature, Publications
Europeans and North Americans may be loath to give up their Latin American stereotypes, but the accessibility of sophisticated Mexican shows to foreign audiences may, slowly, work against the clichés says Professor Paul Julian Smith. Most unusually Mexican television...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 17, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Dr Naomi Wells, a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, highlights the role of language and culture in how migrant and Italian residents maintain and build communities and a sense of shared belonging. In recent years migration...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 27, 2017 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Image: © Shutterstock How can research in modern languages help us understand the relationship between languages and communities – and what role can it play in improving community formation? It’s the theme running through a major research project in which the...
