Reports and responses very welcome: to the AHHE journal/blog – here and to AHHEresearch@gmail.com The Re:Enlightenment Exchange 5: Knowledge as a Public Good Oslo, May 18-19 2015 In our explorations of the Enlightenment heritage in the 21st century we have so
15 May 2015: ‘literary studies as writing’ IES pedagogic criticism workshop
Institute of English Studies The performance of reading: literary studies as writing How student writing shapes the discipline. The conventional distinction between creativity and criticism has masked the degree to which critical literary studies have always been in some sense
The Humanities, the public intellectual and human flourishing
Something needs to be done – urgently. We are agreed – right? But what? (Robert Garland, AHHE v 11.3, ‘The Humanities Plain and Simple’) His answer, below: ‘If more of us could commit to having a public, extra-curricular role, we might
Parrhesia:’Unjustly Neglected-How Music was Banned and Forgotten’ 19th June
After a decade of heady artistic freedom, the Nazis banned the work of artists… Martin Anderson, writer and editor, Toccata Press at Kings Place, London, Friday, 19 June 2015 – 6:30pm St Pancras Room:Free, but a ticket is required.
Lucy Cavendish-Cambridge College for Women over 21- New Voices
Lucy Cavendish 2015 Graduate Research Day: Humanities and Social Science Abstracts * Elizabeth Forbes. Researching Creative Writers’ Self-Identities The focus of my research is the development of creative writers’ self-identities in the context of mentoring and HE teaching
Politics of Language Teaching: Still a Crisis?
Call for responses to Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field by Alison Phipps and Mike Gonzalez (hailed in 2004 by Henry Giroux as ‘filled with so much wisdom, critical insight, and sheer humanity that it takes one’s breath
Screening – Mirrors to Windows: the Artist as Woman 5th June 2015, 18:00 London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion Screening, 5th June Mirrors to Windows: the Artist as Woman is a documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director, Susan Steinberg. The film takes you on an intimate but fast-paced journey into the lives of three
McGann: Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions
McGann on ‘Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions’ 14 May 2015, 17:00 – 18:30, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres, Cambridge Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) will give a Cambrdge Centre for Research in Arts, Social Science
Just publishedin AHHE-Stories on the Skin:Tattoo Culture at a South Florida university
“Stories on the Skin: Tattoo Culture at FAU” by Karen J Leader a multidisciplinary creative and research project, has explored and presented tattoos as a shared cultural experience, rather than as a symptom, or a fad. http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/16/1474022215575162.full.pdf+html Tattoo emerges from
Calling Philosophy postgraduates: design a module!
The UK Philosophy revised ‘Benchmarks’ have just been published http://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/Publications/Documents/SBS-philosophy-15.pdf How would you teach the subject of your research to university students? Outline your ideal course in 500 words for publication here and in a Special Issue of the journal