#PotW: Work Stories: Documenting, Narrating and Representing the French...
Work has become a critical site for apprehending broad changes in France’s society, culture and economy and their imprint on individual and collective life. At once localised and enclosed, the...
View ArticlePoTW: Making theatre in exile
This premiere of a specially devised piece will bring to life some of the original theatre material from the Miller Archive, which comprises materials and recordings relating to the careers of Austrian...
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#PoTW:Children of the Windrush Generation
The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British...
View Article#PoTW: Human rights research conference
Organised by the School of Advanced Study’s Human Rights Consortium (HRC), the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and the University of Glasgow’s Human Rights Network, this conference is a...
View Article#PoTW: Sketching art history: art historians’ drawings as epistemic tool
Many art historians, among the most famous of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, have used the graphic instrument to study art in all its forms (architecture, painting, sculpture …), but that fact is...
View Article#PoTW: Wellbeing and resilience for law school managers
Jointly organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and the Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools (CHULS) this workshop, aimed at law school managers and leaders, will focus on wellbeing...
View Article#PoTW: ‘Time Come’ Britain’s black futures past
‘It soon come’, runs the refrain in Linton Kwesi Johnson’s 1974 poem ‘Time Come’. ‘It soon come / look out! look out! look out!’. In the Institute of Historical Research’s 2019 Wiley Lecture, Dr Rob...
View Article#PoTW: Writing bilingually in early modern Europe: a symposium on...
Self-translation was a widespread phenomenon in early modern Europe, but remains largely uncharted in modern scholarship. There have been isolated studies of important figures – mainly literary authors...
View Article#PoTW: Pensions: law, policy and practice (W G Hart legal workshop 2019)
State pensions are the largest item in the UK social security budget. It is estimated to cost £91.6 billion in 2016/17, with 12.9 million recipients paid an average of £7,100 each. Enormous wealth is...
View Article#PoTW: Writing women: reviving Kana Shodo (‘Woman-Hand’)
To celebrate National Writing Day, the Book and Print Initiative at the Institute of English Studies has invited Kaoru Akagawa to tell the story of Kana Shodo, a forgotten female script. It was...
View Article#PoTW: It takes two to tango. Rethinking enlightenment and decolonisation
‘Decolonisation’ has become a buzzword. However, few of those who deploy the term know much about its history, and perhaps more surprisingly, the same is true for ‘enlightenment’. This blissful tandem...
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