by Talking Humanities | Nov 21, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
The legal and social pressures exerted on LGBTQ+ people to suppress their desire and loves may have had success in the eyes of their oppressors. But the subcultures it created are rich and varied and recorded in ways that don’t take much to research and share. And an...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 4, 2019 | Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Professor Nando Sigona from the University of Birmingham analyses the results of ‘EU families and Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain’, a study investigating the fragility of the legal position of EU citizens in the UK. Mirela left Croatia in 1991 because...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 1, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Dr Felicity Daly reflects on the first Global Feminist LBQ Women’s* Conference, which took place last month in Cape Town, South Africa. If it seems surprising that there hasn’t been a global conference such as this before perhaps it is a measure of the invisibility...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 24, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, welcomes a new generation of Commonwealth activists who are using established legal and constitutional tools to tackle its ‘imperial-era homophobic laws’. I went to a rather...
by Talking Humanities | May 30, 2019 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Researcher Series
Dr Dina Rezk, associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history and politics at the University of Reading, would like the conversation about politics and political transitions in the Arab world to be more about the people, and less about ‘tanks, tear gas, and...