by Talking Humanities | May 20, 2018 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
The political philosopher and refugee Hannah Arendt, wrote in 1944 that: ‘Everywhere the word “exile” which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.’ This John Coffin* memorial lecture...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 14, 2017 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
The Paris Centre for Migrant Writing and Expression, under the guidance of University of London Institute in Paris’ director of research, Anna-Louise Milne, has been working with migrants and asylum seekers in Northern Paris for more than five years. As part of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 12, 2017 | Being Human festival, Digital, Features, Public Engagement
Image: © Genna Naccache Genna Naccache discusses the motivations behind the ‘Lost rights, found justice? Refugee and migrant rights’ photography competition and exhibition, one of the events in the School of Advanced Study’s 2017 Being Human festival of the...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 26, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Image: © UNHCR / Alimzhan Zhorobaev Tendayi Bloom, a politics and international studies lecturer at The Open University, discusses what it means to be ‘stateless’ and how it can drive people to migrate and alter the nature of migration. Statelessness need not have...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 21, 2017 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
As tensions heighten around the Korean peninsula Naoko Hashimoto, Nippon Foundation Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Sussex, examines the legal basis for how South Korea, China and Japan should respond to a potential largescale influx of North Koreans....
