by Talking Humanities | Aug 15, 2019 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications
What do Rihanna, Janelle Monáe and the futurists have in common? A belief in the future and in the aesthetic and political power of technology, argues Dr Katia Pizzi, author of Italian futurism and the machine. After the end of the First World War, the Italian...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 9, 2019 | Digital, Features
We’ve all heard about the digital revolution in the arts and humanities: digital humanities some call it, a major part of which is using computers to conduct data-driven analyses of complex materials like literature. ‘There are a lot of drawbacks (and benefits) to...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 21, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Dr William Crawley, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, calls on south Asian countries to adopt an ethical administrative and legal framework in which press and media freedoms can be protected, and legitimately enhanced. Accusations of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 11, 2016 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
Dr Michael Eades, who curates the School of Advanced Study’s national Being Human festival of the humanities, provide a glimpse at the events in the 2016 programme. Our theme for the 2016 Being Human festival is ‘Hope and Fear’. We couldn’t have known how well...
