by Talking Humanities | Jun 5, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Image (© 2018 Richard Price) Though Suriname’s Saamaka people have already achieved a remarkable victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that guarantees their right to their territory and the rainforests within it, the state’s continued push towards...
by Talking Humanities | May 28, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
In recent years, a rich wave of scholarship has been examining representations of ‘blackness’ in the visual cultures of the Atlantic world. It is an avenue of enquiry particularly germane to Latin America and the Caribbean, home to the world’s largest...
by Talking Humanities | May 7, 2018 | Events, PotW
When: 10 May 2018, 5.30–7.30pm Who: Institute of Latin American Studies, LSE, Goldsmiths, University of London and University College London Where: Room 234, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU This talk by Dr Camilla Morelli, a social...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 2, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Professor Mark Thurner, who leads the Leverhulme Trust-supported LAGLOBAL international research network based at the Institute of Latin American Studies, talks about the project and its goals. A wave of exciting research across the humanities, arts and sciences is...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 5, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights
Image: Mural at the Centro Utopia, cultural centre of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) On 17 September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It may not have...
