Coming in 2024 from Anthem Press …

A pleasure to co-edit this with my Cardiff University Law colleague Dr Daniel Newman

https://anthempress.com/anthem-law-and-society-series-145/law-and-humanities-hb

#lawandhumanities #law #humanities #newbook #interdisciplinary

Guest Essay by Debra Satz and Dan Edelstein

"But universities have a moral and civic duty to teach students how to consider and weigh contrary viewpoints, and how to accept differences of opinion as a healthy feature of a diverse society. Disagreement is in the nature of democracies."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/03/opinion/colleges-civics-core-curriculum-culture-wars.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

#FreeSpeech #democracy #disagreement #colleges #CultureWar #humanities #CivicEducation

"Rather than prioritizing the best platform to disseminate their results, the main priority seems to have shifted towards the formal status of journals, such as indexing in #Scopus, which does not necessarily imply influence or global visibility by default":

👉 https://bit.ly/3OXHDvb

#bibliometric #humanities #Ukraine #language

I originally studied physics. And like many of those who graduated in the #STEM fields, I developed a certain prejudice against the #Humanities.

Today I can say that I was wrong.

And the most important lesson of the Humanities is that the life experiences of others are valid even if they are different than your own - something too many people forget. It's too easy to become a judgmental asshole if you ignore that lesson.

#Floriduh governor #RonDeSantis forced a #HillsdaleCollege makeover at #NewCollege in Sarasota. In response, there has been a #science and #humanities faculty exodus. Departing #science students were replaced with a huge increase in ‘student-athlete’ admissions, SAT scores of freshman plummeted by 100 points. 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/new-college-florida-desantis-teachers

Just a note to say I'm seeing a surge of art history and other humanities majors in my classes.

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/30/gen-z-and-humanities-opinion

#HigherEd #Humanities #Arts #ArtHistory #CommunityCollege

“I could go on for ages about SF’s direct links to Woolf and modernism – the subjective and the impersonal, different levels of perspective, a single day in the life of a character and vast deserts of eternity”

With his latest novel, IN ASCENSION, longlisted for the #BookerPrize 2023, Martin MacInnes discusses the interconnectedness of life – & why arts & sciences belong together

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #modernism #humanities #STEM

@bookstodon

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/martin-macinnes-interview-in-ascension

Proud to present the ALECC call-for-papers for our conference June 19-22, 2024, with the theme of "Migrations"!

Please boost and share widely among your colleagues if possible.

#academia #conference #AcademicConference #ecocriticism #environmentalism #migration #emigration #borders #ClimateMigration #refugees #scholarship #humanities #research #CFP #CallForPapers @academicchatter @waterlooregion

JOB: Senior Program Associate in the Public Knowledge program, Mellon Foundation

https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=5cd5c82a-9265-495c-8abc-b4756df8f809&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=466475&lang=en_US&source=LI

hybrid: 3 days/week in New York
salary: $135,000-$175,000
work with Patricia Hswe

#PublicHistory #humanities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGZEZ96ynI&list=PLPeStI124dee1ByfcDzRvPxKDNb0GQjmo&index=5&ab_channel=LeidenUniversity-FacultyofHumanities

A nice video series on philosophy of science with a bent towards #humanities

#khun and #philosophyofscience #philosophy

ICYMI. Greenhouse Studios (the #digitalhumanities center at UConn #libraries) is looking for a project manager for our Sourcery: Remote Access to #Archives app (https://sourceryapp.org)

This is a great opportunity for a recent grad student (MLIS, MA in Archives, PhD in #humanities or #histodon) to travel to conferences, make connections, build leadership skills.

https://greenhousestudios.uconn.edu/blog/join-us-full-time-research-associate

Pls boost.

Washington University #Libraries Awarded Mellon Grant to Preserve Born-Digital #Poetry Collections https://www.infodocket.com/2023/08/25/washington-university-libraries-awarded-mellon-grant-to-preserve-born-digital-poetry-collections/ #digitalpreservation #digipress #humanities #poets

If you work in #science #psychology #medicine #sociology #humanities I highly recommend a read of this piece on the dark side of the history #statistics theory, discussing how it was driven by a desire to make #eugenics look like fact

A useful reflection as we live through another #PostTruth era

Fighting #Racism #Sexism #Homophobia #Transphobia & #Ableism with all you good people, strengthened by learning lessons from the past.

https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014/

Frustrated, angry — and afraid, because the things that affirm our humanity are the first to go onto the chopping block at West Virginia #University #humanities #highered #highereducation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/23/west-virginia-university-budget-cuts-humanities/

🎉 my huge longitudinal German #Twitter corpus will be part of the German national library 😍
Stay tuned for a workshop announcement and info on how to use the data for #humanities and #socialScience #research #linguistics

"The ngEHT has placed a major institutional bet on redrawing the lines that have confined academics to separate departments, professional gatherings and research funding panels in response to the challenges faced by modern science."

https://rdcu.be/djb6f

New Correspondence in Nature Human Behaviour about the importance of the humanities and social sciences for big science collaborations in astronomy and in STEM more broadly.

#humanities #socialscience #astronomy #stem

From #slavery to settler #colonisation.
https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/from-slavery-to-settler-colonisation/ Prof Jane Lydon writes for International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (Aug 23) #rememberslavery #humanities #auspol

"An unholy alliance of far-right ideology and mercenary venture capitalists has politicized the classroom. We must reject their vision of America and insist that a liberal arts education accessible to more than just the elite is one of the great foundations of a democracy.”

#WestVirginiaUniversity #NewYorkTimes #Humanities #Democracy #Education #LiberalArts #LanguageTeaching

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/opinion/west-virginia-university-cuts.html

Call for The British Academy Global Professorships. Applications welcome in any discipline in the #humanities and #socialsciences with up to £900,000 over 4 years available for researchers based anywhere in the world to come to the UK https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/global-professorships/

New call that provides funding for any UK-based #earlycareerresearchers to work with early career researchers elsewhere in the world on any #international #interdisciplinary #research project involving both the #humanities and #socialsciences Funding of up to £300,000 over 2 years is available with the deadline for applications of 1 November https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/knowledge-frontiers-international-interdisciplinary-research/?