In a popular recent blog for the Harvard Business Review online, Tony Golsby-Smith emphasizes the importance of hiring innovative, creative workers with backgrounds in the humanities. As Golsby-Smith writes, many business leaders have trouble finding employees who can help them solve difficult, complex, and ambiguous problems: This is because our educational systems focus on teaching […]
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Omeka Collection Management System
Omeka is a free, open-source web publishing system for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Omeka makes it easy for academics and cultural professionals to design and publish their own collections-based research and online exhibitions, a task […]
Actor Samuel West Speaks Out on Arts Funding Cuts
Actor Samuel West delivered a speech at the Trades Union Congress’s (TUC) March for the Alternative in London on March 26. West emphasized that the arts should be publicly funded and available to everyone: We believe, don’t we, that art is for everyone? That just as you shouldn’t be denied good healthcare because you’ve got […]
The Value of the Arts and Humanities in the 21st Century
On May 5th, the University of Sheffield will hold a debate on the value of the arts and humanities. Speakers will include professors, policy makers, consultants, and journalists from across the United Kingdom. The event is open to the general public; see the event page for more information.
Unveiling the New India
By Oeendrila Lahiri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 4Humanities International Correspondent At a time when advanced countries such as the US and UK are drastically cutting down on education funds and especially attacking humanities, India seems to have managed to keep itself in the good books of all educationists.Why, even Obama cites it as an […]
ACLS Public Fellows
The ACLS has announced the inaugural competition of its Public Fellows program, which will place eight recent PhDs in staff positions in partnering government and non-profit agencies. The ACLS describes the purpose of the program as broadening conventional ideas about the Ph.D. career path: This program, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. […]
France: Projects and campuses of excellence chosen
100 projects selected for funding under the French government’s “Labex” (Laboratories of Excellence) have been announced; the program is funded by a EUR35 billion (US$50 billion) growth fund announced by President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009 and is intended to create internationally competitive centers of higher education and research. Among the 100 Labex are 26 projects […]