From Pat Thomson patter research education, academic writing, public engagement, funding, other eccentricities. conference evening one From posts posted on May 18, 2015 by pat thomson I’ve come to Bavaria to take part in something called a ‘Polylogue’. Like a dialogue but
A call: Public history and the new academic citizen
From ‘Back to the future? Public history and the new academic citizen’ By Alix Green. Published 05 March 2015 http://bit.ly/1cQb9xV in Public History Weekly BLOGJOURNAL FOR HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION: ‘We want to build bridges between research and application, politics and science, and the school and the
Reports, please! Knowledge as a Public Good Oslo, May 18-19 2015
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
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
Winter School in Psychiatry, Philosophy and Neuroscience
Winter School in Psychiatry, Philosophy and Neuroscience (University of Otago, 21-24 June 2015) Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, University of Otago, Dunedin 21st – 24th June 2015 Overview: We will be providing a mixed learning opportunity involving presentations and case-based
CONTINUING Q-How do we do defend the Humanities? 1of our A’s: Humanities and the Liberal University Special Issue
A special issue of writings from and inspired by Arendt, Attridge, Barnett, Bhabha, Clarke, Deegan, Derrida, Evans, Heaney, Kanter, Mandela, Moltow, Ndebele, Nussbaum, Stimpson, Strathern, Tagore, New Voices, and Editors.
From the introduction, by editor-in-chief Jan Parker:
How do we do defend the Humanities? How do we stave off anti-liberal agendas? How we make our universities fit for [liberal] purpose?
Our answer has always been, by our writing – advocating and illuminating the values inherent and produced by our ‘skill-ful’ meaning-making practices – on campus, in the virtual classroom, in the community.
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This Special Issue has been convened in difficult times, in response to a gathering sense not just of institutional and political opposition to the Arts and Humanities, but to the urgent need, internationally, to promote our subjects as higher education. So, we have brought together leading thinkers – many of whom were founder members of our editorial board and also were involved in the seminal AHHE ‘Future Priorities of the Humanities’ forum – to reflect on the prominent Humanists with whom they have worked and who inspired them.
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