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
A Response to The Guardian’s article “The War Against the Humanities at Britain’s Universities”
Having now read this article, I have come to realise that *surprise, surprise*, the heading is totally there for inflammatory purposes. This wasn’t simply an article going through the motions of discussing cuts to humanities funding and a governmental prejudice
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
Calling Post Graduate New Voices:How would you teach your interests?
Publish the answer here and in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an international journal of theory, research and practice http://ahh.sagepub.com Interested in delving deeper into current debate concerning the arts and humanities? Or
Delhi bus rape: BBC’s ‘India’s Daughter’ and in AHHE 13.1 – ‘Nirbhaya:Theatre as witness’
Farber’s Nirbhaya and BBC’s ‘India’s Daughter’ from ‘ ‘Something adequate’? In memoriam Seamus Heaney, Sister Quinlan, Nirbhaya’, AHHE 13 1-2 2014 by Jan Parker (http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/13/1-2/141) Full article available for free download! What kind of performance can lay
“Paradigm changing event”: GUILDHALL REFLECTIVE CONSERVATOIRE CONFERENCE 2015
“revisiting, reimagining the values, mission, objectives” of the Conservatoire in 2020. A creative, reflective and joyous gathering by Jan Parker http://www.artsandhumanities.org/ uncategorized/the-art-of-the-reflective-practitioner-guildhall-reflective-conservatoire-conference-2015-2/ REFLECTIVE CONSERVATOIRE CONFERENCE 2015 Creativity and Changing Cultures: Themes Creativity, playfulness and improvisation – artistic development – experiential
GUILDHALL REFLECTIVE CONSERVATOIRE CONFERENCE 2015:A changing artistic world – finding balance
Judith de Haas, European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) violinist, challenges us as artists to open up to changing societies, at the same time keeping the core values and qualities of a discipline. Just one New Voice blog from the
What is really ‘higher’ about Higher Education?
by Jan McArthur, Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation, Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education, Dept. of Educational Research, Lancaster University What is really ‘higher’ about Higher Education? At a time in
In Praise of…Teaching: Teach or Perish
By Jacques Berlinerblau From THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION February 19, 2015 “But no decision we ever made could have been more catastrophic than this one: Somewhere along the way, we spiritually and emotionally disengaged from teaching and mentoring students.