by Talking Humanities | Sep 16, 2014 | Being Human festival, Features
Scotland votes on independence from the UK on 18 September. In this guest blog Professor Jolyon Mitchell, Academic Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, discusses the culture and rhetoric of fear...
by guestblogger | Sep 9, 2014 | Being Human festival
In this guest blog, Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the School of Advanced Study, University of London, reflects upon the current status of the humanities in the UK and the USA. He argues the case for a self-confident...
by guestblogger | Jul 29, 2014 | Being Human festival
In this guest post Manchester Metropolitan University’s Helen Malarky, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science Project Manager for Research and Impact and Professor Berthold Schoene, Associate Dean for Humanities and Social Science Research, reflect on...
by guestblogger | Jul 10, 2014 | Being Human festival
By Professor Barry C. Smith What do you think of when someone tells you that they’re a scientist or an artist? You probably don’t know exactly what they do – there is huge variety in the arts and the sciences – but you have a rough idea. Compare this with someone...
by guestblogger | Jul 8, 2014 | Being Human festival
Between 24-29 June, festival curator Dr Michael Eades spent six days at Glastonbury Festival – supervising an installation created for the School of Advanced Study’s 2013 Bloomsbury Festival. Six days of enduring mud, crowds, and lightning storms offered the perfect...
