by Talking Humanities | Jun 9, 2020 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Syed Badrul Ahsan, associate research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, explores the politics of skin colour. The colour black has been seared into the human consciousness as an embodiment of all that is negative, indeed is a manifestation of evil....
by Talking Humanities | May 21, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Black British history lecturer Dr Hannah Elias, remembers Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1964 visit to London where he commanded a 4,000-strong congregation at St Paul’s Cathedral, that bulwark of national and imperial memory which was also a site of radical...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 14, 2020 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Dr Tom Smith, a lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews, opens up about his insatiable love of languages and his research into the constructions of race in Berlin’s techno scene. Tell us about yourself I first discovered my love of languages as a...
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 | Apr 9, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
As London prepares to host the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, senior research fellows at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), provide a challenging range of views on how the Commonwealth which emerged out of empire can renew itself as a...
