By Floris Solleveld Final Call for Papers — “The Making of the Humanities IV”, Rome, 16-18 October 2014 The history of the humanities considered as a whole is still a young discipline. While there are well over a hundred institutes and graduate schools in the history of science, or the history and philosophy of science, […]
Digital Art in Egypt: Interview with Haytham Nawar
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Eva Kekou: Can you give us some information about your own work and research? Haytham Nawar: I am an artist, designer, researcher and educator. My work is interdisciplinary, spanning a variety of mediums from drawing, printmaking and photography, sound and light installations to Interactive Installations. I often integrate research, […]
4Humanities@UCSB Meeting — “WhatEvery1Says” Project (Text Preparation Team) (April 30, 2014)
In this meeting to continue work on the “WhatEvery1Says” project, members of 4Humanities@UCSB working on the text-preparation team will perform the following tasks: Share notes on and fine-tune their ongoing work in archiving and transforming documents from the corpus for a sample set stored on Google Drive. Discuss and split up next-stage work. The next […]
Open Letter on Net Neutrality
This letter was originally posted on the Association for Computers and the Humanities’ (ACH) website: http://ach.org/activities/advocacy/open-letter-on-net-neutrality/. The ACH has also posted a list of links and resources on net neutrality, including what you can do: http://ach.org/activities/advocacy/net-neutrality-info-and-action/. 29 April 2014 Dear FCC Chairman Wheeler; We write as leaders of 25 major professional societies, boards, committees, and publications, […]
The Hybrid Humanities in an Age of Public Scholarship
By Christine Henseler Note: This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post Funding shortfalls and jabs from elected officials aside, what a time to be a humanities scholar. Increased availability and access to material, big data collections, and new tools and technologies provide opportunities for everyone to connect. And these connections move us beyond the divisions […]
The Time and Space of the City: Interview with Bill Psarras
Bill Psarras (1985, Greece) is an artist and musician based in London. After completing his BA and MA in audiovisual arts (Greece) and digital arts (UK), he is now a PhD candidate (Goldsmiths University of London), conducting practice-based research on the exploration of emotional geographies of the city through artistic walking and embodied media […]
Economy, politics and the “crisis in the humanities”
This is a guest post from Darin Barney, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship, Dept. of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University. It is a slight variant of a talk given March 18th, 2014 as part of the McGill for Humanities Speaker Series. Last month, Premier Christy Clark of British Columbia made […]