by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Languages & Literature
It is no secret that every area of the humanities is experiencing significant change. Questions concerning the coherence, identity, and purpose of modern languages are certainly the subject of a great deal of debate within the education sector. This edition of Talking...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 1, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Visiting research fellow, Dr Juanita Cox, provides an update on a project exploring the importance of the Windrush generation in higher education and the complex story of Caribbean migration. During the Commonwealth Summit in London in April 2018, a major controversy...
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 | Nov 5, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: © IWM (E(AUS) 2078) In the fourth of a series of scholarly articles marking the Armistice centenary, Dr Mandy Banton, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, explores the ‘hostile environment’ many colonial ex-servicemen and unemployed...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 30, 2018 | Events, PotW
When: 1–20 May 2018, 5pm Who: Institute of Latin American Studies and Brazilarity Where: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU This photographic exhibition is presented by Braziliarty and the Institute of Latin American Studies. It celebrates the 130th...
