Ernesto Priego: “These must be truly apocalyptic times if there is a need to...
These must be truly apocalyptic times if there is a need to explain why the humanities matter. Theodor Adorno’s famous phrase, “no poetry after Auschwitz”, comes to mind, as well as Walter Benjamin’s...
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Brienza and Priego: The Impact of the Budget Cuts in the United Kingdom on...
Casey Brienza, Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and Ernesto Priego, Ph.D. candidate in Information Studies at University College London, assess the impact of the planned...
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View ArticleStudents protest tuition increases around the world
Students are protesting tuition fees around the world. The Guardian reports on the third day of tuition fee hike protests in the UK, Student protesters ignore winter freeze with mass rallies against...
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“What can undergraduates do with digital media at a liberal arts college?”
Students at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges met in November 2010 for a two-day symposium titled “Re:Humanities”, billed as “of, by, and for undergraduates, featuring innovative digital research.” As...
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Undergraduates Write Manifesto on Digital Humanities
Students in an honors course on “Introduction to Digital Humanities” at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania have written for the Student Voices section of 4Humanities a “Manifesto” on why they...
View ArticlePublic Research Competition 2011 at the University of Alberta
The University of Alberta is running an innovative graduate student competition for ideas and strategies for communicating Arts (Humanities, Social Sciences and Fine/Performing Arts) research to the...
View ArticleScotland: Stoppard fights cuts to languages at Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is talking about closing down many of its modern language programs to save money. This has people like Tom Stoppard sending letters to the Education Secretary and students...
View ArticleUnveiling the New India
By Oeendrila Lahiri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 4Humanities International Correspondent At a time when advanced countries such as the US and UK are drastically cutting down on education...
View ArticleCurrent Athens Media Art Events
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Despite the economic crisis, a number of media art events are taking place in Athens. Creativity flourishes amidst difficult social and economic...
View ArticleCan you fill your sandwich with Dante? Some reflections after the Italian...
By Domenico Fiormonte, University of Roma Tre, 4Humanities International Correspondent On December 14th, 2010, students from all over Italy filled the streets of major cities protesting – and, in Rome,...
View ArticleOn Graduate Education in the Humanities, by a Graduate Student in the Humanities
By Lindsay Thomas Well, spring is here, and this year it appears it has brought with its many pleasures a virtual bonanza of discussion on the current state of graduate education, particularly in the...
View ArticleSpec Work and the Humanities
By Dana Solomon As part of my own research on the use of information visualization in the humanities, I have become interested in the past and present overlap of graphic design practice and literary...
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Challenges in Humanities Advocacy
By Lindsay Thomas My academic Twitter-verse has been in a bit of an uproar today about recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed on graduate education in the humanities....
View ArticleAnnouncing 4Humanities@CSUN Mini-Documentary Backpack Project
By Kristin Cornelius This project facilitates the making of short, mini-documentaries that promote humanities scholarship by giving a narrative voice to the research process. Each mini-doc will depict...
View ArticleAdvice Not to Go to Graduate School Obscures Real Issues
By now, the latest anti-(humanities)graduate school screed, “Thesis Hatement” by Rebecca Schuman, has made the rounds on Facebook and Twitter. The author warns us against going to grad school in the...
View ArticleWhy All Professions Should Care About the Humanities
In a recent piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kira Hamman, an instructor of mathematics at Penn State Mont Alto, emphasizes three reasons why scientists should care about attacks on the...
View ArticleNational Humanities Report Reinforces Stereotypes about the Humanities
By Lindsay Thomas Originally posted on Remaking the University: http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-heart-of-matter-humanities-do-more.html In June 2013, the American Academy of Arts &...
View ArticleStuHum: Student Advocates for the Future of the Humanities
StuHum, or Student Advocates for the Future of the Humanities, is a new humanities advocacy group for students, by students. StuHum believes that the answer to the question of whether the humanities...
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