by Talking Humanities | May 20, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Martin Plaut, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, reflects on South Africa’s recent national elections and the challenges ahead for President Ramaphosa who ‘has a great deal on his plate.’ It was a remarkable achievement. South...
by Talking Humanities | May 13, 2019 | Events, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW, Public Engagement
Organised by the School of Advanced Study’s Human Rights Consortium (HRC), the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and the University of Glasgow’s Human Rights Network, this conference is a one of a series of three aimed at postgraduate students working...
by Talking Humanities | May 8, 2019 | History & Classics, Interviews, Politics & Law, Researcher Series
Dr Majed Akhter, a lecturer in environment and society at King’s College London, talks about his work examining the contentious history of dams built in the 20th century, from the Colorado River, to Ghana, to the Indus, and the politics of international development....
by Talking Humanities | May 6, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British Empire, socioeconomic migrants, family reunions and marriage, refugees...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 25, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. And over those years it has grown and flourished to develop the link between policy and practice, writes Dr Sue Onslow, the institute’s deputy director. The Institute of...