International Correspondents

While 4Humanities began with participants and local chapters in Anglophone countries, it seeks to extend its scope and audience to other nations. To that end, 4Humanities International Correspondents are humanities researchers from non-Anglophone nations that report on events, policies, statements, and issues relating to the state of the humanities or advocacy for the humanities in the correspondent’s country. Sponsorship for these international correspondent positions during 2011-13 came from the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), and the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts (CIRCA).

#libroelectrónico: Lo que nos dicen los tweets sobre el simposio

El segundo simposio internacional “El libro electrónico en español” se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de México del 11 al 14 de septiembre de 2012. Se transmitió en vivo por Internet y la discusión en Twitter tuvo lugar a través de las etiquetas (hashtags) #libroelectronico y #libroelectrónico.

#libroelectrónico: What Mexico’s eBook Symposium Backchannel Tells Us

The “Second International Symposium The eBook in Spanish”, took place in Mexico City 11-14 September 2012. It was live streamed and the backchannel was active with the #libroelectronico or #libroelectrónico hashtags.

Nestor’s Semester

By Oeendrila Lahiri The Union Minister for Education, Mr Kapil Sibal, has been pushing for the ‘semester system’ in India. Earlier, the Delhi University, like all other undergraduate universities in the country, had three annual exams to assess the progress of students under a structure divided into Part I, Part II, and Part III. After […]