Dr Victoria Showumni, Institute of Education, University College London, presented the fourth paper in the Decolonising Research / Decolonising the Curriculum Social Science Forum seminar series, hosted by the School of Applied Social Science (SASS), University of Brighton. The title of this paper was ‘Racism in Academic Leadership’. Many thanks to Dr Showumni for their… Continue reading →
Matt C. Smith, a Postgraduate Researcher in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton, presented the third paper in the Decolonising Research / Decolonising the Curriculum Social Science Forum semiunar series. Matt is in their final year of a SCDTP studentship and their doctoral research is an investigation of Trans* experiences of urban… Continue reading →
Professor Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, presented a paper to the School of Applied Social Science Social Science Forum on 28th October 2020. The title was ‘Decolonizing the Philosophy of the Social Sciences’. A number of colleagues asked for a recording; here is… Continue reading →
I presented a paper to the School of Applied Social Science Social Science Forum on 14th October 2020. The title was ‘Decolonizing the Philosophy of the Social Sciences’. A number of colleagues asked for a recording, here is a link that will take you to it and the video is also embedded below.
The Iliad opens with a dramatic, scene-setting chapter. Agamemnon shows his unpleasant and foolish character by refusing to return Chryse, a slave girl taken in battle, to Chryses her father, who is a priest of Apollo, despite him presenting a handsome ransom and receiving the assent of the assembled Achaean (Greek) army. Chryses asks Apollo… Continue reading →
Dr Rachel Rosen presented a fantastic paper to the School of Applied Social Science in our Social Science Forum seminar series. Rachel’s paper was about time and its role in participatory research, and it extended the argument in her previous work on temporality and the social character of time. I think time is something that… Continue reading →
I had a rather restless night and some strange dreams – the product of the cold remedies I am taking at the moment, perhaps? That is a very modern way of thinking about dreams – that they are caused by something we have ingested – but then so is the idea that dreams are the… Continue reading →
Talking to my friend Tom recently about the ‘Troy’ exhibition at the British Museum we came to discussing George Chapman’s Homer (Iliad (1611) and Odyssey (1615) – you can download a copy here), the first full English translations of these epic poems. The exhibition includes a first edition of this monumental work. George Chapman (1559… Continue reading →
Thetis to Achilles: “But you, sitting by your swift sea-faring ships, continue your wrath against the Achaeans and refrain entirely from battle; for Zeus went yesterday for a feast to the incomparable Ethiopians at the Ocean, and all the gods followed with him; but on the twelfth day he will come back again to Olympus,… Continue reading →
There are very few references to iron (σιδηρος) in Homer: this is the Bronze Age after all, or rather a tale of the Bronze Age. When reference is made to iron these note firstly the difficulties in working it and then the value of this new metal. The value is shown in, for example, Achilles… Continue reading →
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