Talking Humanities
Talking Humanities
Podcast Description
Talking Humanities introduces projects and reflections from researchers across the Arts and Humanities Faculty at Durham University. The faculty is home to a vibrant culture of ideas and research activities.
Talking Humanities features insights into collaborative projects working across the university and beyond - changing the ways in which we think and work. These highlight the transformative strength of Arts and Humanities and hope to inspire further reflection and activity.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a variety of topics focusing on interdisciplinary research and the impact of the arts and humanities, with episodes like discussions on Victorian literature, the relationship between classics and modern understanding, and interdisciplinary conversations on topics like natural heritage and medieval science, exploring how humanities inform contemporary insights.
Talking Humanities introduces projects and reflections from researchers across the Arts and Humanities Faculty at Durham University. The faculty is home to a vibrant culture of ideas and research activities.
Talking Humanities features insights into collaborative projects working across the university and beyond – changing the ways in which we think and work. These highlight the transformative strength of Arts and Humanities and hope to inspire further reflection and activity.
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Our conversation is about law and the humanities. It asks what happens when we approach law not just as rules and institutions, but through literature, history and human experience — whose voices are heard, whose are missing, and how people live with the consequences of legal power.
GUESTS
Dr Maryam Mirza, Associate Professor of South Asian Literature, Durham University
Staff profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/maryam-mirza/
Professor Tom Hamilton, Associate Professor and Director of Research, Department of History, Durham University
Staff profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/tom-b-hamilton/
Tom’s book: A Widow’s Vengeance After the Wars of Religion
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-widows-vengeance-after-the-wars-of-religion-9780197929995?lang=en&cc=gb
REFERENCES
Bhattacharya, Santanu. Deviants. Penguin, 2025.
Manto, Saadat Hasan. “The New Law.” Translated by Maryam Mirza and T.H. Mirza. Bombay Literary Magazine, 2025.
https://bombaylitmag.com/contribution/maryam-mirza-and-tariq-mirza-issue-61/
Massey, Sujata. The Widows of Malabar Hill. Soho Crime, 2018.
Siddique, Osama. Pakistan’s Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Sircar, Oishik. “Spectacles of Emancipation: Reading Rights Differently in India’s Legal Discourse.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 49, no. 3, Spring 2012, pp. 527–574.
White, James Boyd. “Telling Stories in the Law and in Ordinary Life: The Oresteia and ‘Noon Wine’.” Heracles’ Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law. University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, pp. 168–91.
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