BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) today at Hay Festival unveiled the 10 academics – and their research – who will be New Generation Thinkers 2015. The scheme is a nationwide search for the brightest
HASTAC 2015 28-30 May: Conference on The Art and Science of Digital Humanities
http://hastac2015.sched.org/ May 28-30th 2015 Thursday, May 28 9:00am Connecting the Dots 10:20am Is there a ‘Genius’ badge?: Teaching & Learning in Digital Spaces African and African-descendant Cultures in the Digital Age: Adoption, Adaptation and the Emergence of Complex Identities. Digital
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Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an international journal of theory, research and practice Special Issue: Forum on the Public Value of Arts and Humanities Research http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/14/1.toc Special Double Issue: Humanities and the Liberal University – Calls to
On [Rik Mayall’s] Drama Dept.’s ‘academic validity’
The Dean, on her ‘crusade for academic excellence. Take the drama department…students writhing around the floor pretending to be primeval slime surely does not constitute valid academic pursuit’. from Lloyd Peters’ prize winning first play for radio ‘A Higher Education’, a comedy
The Art of the Reflective Practitioner: Guildhall Reflective Conservatoire Conference 2015
Professor Helena Gaunt, Vice Principal and Director of Academic Affairs at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama With rapid change an accepted norm, renewing our practices in Higher Education increasingly demands profound reflection. This is critical for the arts
From the Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards – Anya Adair
Anya Adair English Language and Literature, Yale Attending the AAC&U conference as a Cross Scholar has been an inspiring and instructive experience, as well as a great honour. It’s especially cheering to meet so many people optimistic about the
Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award 2015 – Naghme Morlock
Naghme Morlock is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, concerned with the scholarship of teaching and learning, gender, trauma, and human rights. In her dissertation, Naghme investigates how gender shapes the
Michael Berube’s seminal AHHE article ‘The Utility of the Arts and Humanities’
In 2003 in AHHE vol 2 (1) Michael Bérubé challenged us all to think about ‘The Utility of the Arts and Humanities’: http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/2/1/23.abstract So, as we meet the current Special Issue’s challenges about and advocacy for NEW ISSUE: FORUM ON THE PUBLIC VALUE
The LEAP Challenge What part should Humanities and Arts Play?
Washington, DC—January 22, 2015—The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) opened its Centennial Annual Meeting looking to the future. Marking its 100th year of leadership for liberal education and ten years of educational reform and advocacy through its groundbreaking
[How] Are the Arts and Humanities ‘liberal’?
• What does ‘liberal’ mean to us in Arts and Humanities HE? • [How] Are the Arts and Humanities ‘liberal’/’liberalising’/’liberating’? • Does ‘liberal education’ translate? This month we’re featuring contributions to the discussion around Liberal Education with and from the