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What is performance doing here?

What is performance doing here?

by Talking Humanities | Apr 2, 2019 | Human Rights, Interviews, Public Engagement

Dr Ella Parry-Davies, a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, talks about her research on the historical and social context of performance. She is one of ten 2019 New Generation Thinkers whose research will be made into...
Missing persons: refugees and migrants in Paris

Missing persons: refugees and migrants in Paris

by Talking Humanities | Sep 6, 2018 | Being Human festival, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished

Dr Anna-Louise Milne, director of graduate studies and research at University of London Institute in Paris, provides some insights into her public engagement work with refugees and migrants in Paris, and her work with the School of Advanced Study’s Being Human...
Digital diasporas: languages, cultures and communities across borders

Digital diasporas: languages, cultures and communities across borders

by Talking Humanities | Aug 23, 2018 | Digital, Events, Features, Languages & Literature

Migration and the rapid rise of digital media and communications are arguably two of the defining features of our contemporary age, says Dr Naomi Wells a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR).  While individuals and...
What’s in a name? 

What’s in a name? 

by Talking Humanities | Nov 14, 2017 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement

The Paris Centre for Migrant Writing and Expression, under the guidance of University of London Institute in Paris’ director of research, Anna-Louise Milne, has been working with migrants and asylum seekers in Northern Paris for more than five years. As part of...
Statelessness and the global compact for migration

Statelessness and the global compact for migration

by Talking Humanities | Sep 26, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law

Image: © UNHCR / Alimzhan Zhorobaev Tendayi Bloom, a politics and international studies lecturer at The Open University, discusses what it means to be ‘stateless’ and how it can drive people to migrate and alter the nature of migration. Statelessness need not have...
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