by Talking Humanities | Jun 25, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Kaoru Akagawa, a Master of Japanese calligraphy and guardian of the Kana Shodo (Women Hand) script, discusses her work and why it is her ‘duty to preserve this old tradition’ and bring it to the world’s attention. As a guest of the Book and Print Initiative at the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 2, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Republished
Dr Philip Carter, senior lecturer at the Institute of Historical Research, remembers the nine women whose commitment to education made them pioneers in women’s higher education. At 2pm on 15 May 1869, the 17 examiners of the University of London (UoL) gathered...
by Talking Humanities | May 17, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications
Edith Morley was the first woman to be appointed Professor in Britain in 1908. Yet, says Dr Victoria Leonard, who co-founded the Women’s Classical Committee UK, more than a century later women still have a visibility problem in UK higher education. Although there is...
by Talking Humanities | May 1, 2018 | Politics & Law, Publications
Professor Diamond Ashiagbor and Steven Whittle introduce the republished Women and the Law, the first book in the UK to examine how the law has perceived and responded to women. Women and the Law, one of the first modern books of its kind, was originally published in...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2017 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Image: © Matt Crossick To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, we asked five of the School of Advanced Study’s female academics – Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Professor Jane Winters, Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Dr Sarah Singer and Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex – what...
