by Talking Humanities | Mar 12, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Projects, Research & Resources
Courts have increasingly become the locus of environmental disputes. Dr Ainhoa Montoya looks at one such case, which occurred in El Salvador, where resource extraction has preoccupied many of its citizens for more than a decade. In 2017, the Salvadoran Legislative...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 25, 2018 | Events, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, PotW
This free, one-day international conference on 27 June will explore how languages and cultural understanding affect international development, and help to respect communities. Taking place at Senate House from 9am–6pm, it has been organised by the Universities of...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 14, 2017 | Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
L to R: Dr Corinne Lennox, Evelin Verhás (Tom Lantos Institute), Dr Fernand de Varennes (UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues), Dr Anna-Mária Bíró (Tom Lantos Institute). © Lilija Alijeva (SAS MPhil/PhD student) Dr Corinne Lennox, a senior lecturer in human rights...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 27, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Graduate Study, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Minah Ahn, a student on the understanding and securing human rights master’s course at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, reflects on a Geneva study tour, a highlight of the programme which is offered by the University of London’s School of Advanced Study (SAS)....
by Talking Humanities | Jul 26, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Republished
Image: African bush elephant skull, © JimJones1971 at English Wikipedia Professor Keith Somerville Ivory and elephants have for decades been very emotive topics among conservationists, wildlife departments and NGOs in states which have elephant populations and in...
