[For an English language version of this post, please click here]. El 17 y 18 de mayo de 2012 la Red de Humanistas Digitales (RedHD) celebró el 1er Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales en la Biblioteca Vasconcelos, en la Ciudad de México. Este encuentro fue realmente el primer evento académico de su tipo en México, introduciendo […]
1st Conference of Digital Humanists, Mexico
[Para una versión en español de este artículo, por favor hacer clic aquí]. On 17 and 18 May 2012, the Mexican Network of Digital Humanists (Red de Humanistas Digitales, RedHD) held the First Meeting (or Conference) of Digital Humanists at the Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City. The event was indeed the first academic event of its […]
On Graduate Education in the Humanities, by a Graduate Student in the Humanities
By Lindsay Thomas Well, spring is here, and this year it appears it has brought with its many pleasures a virtual bonanza of discussion on the current state of graduate education, particularly in the humanities. Perusing the higher education news of late, one gets the sense that the state of graduate education has never been […]
How Are Funding Issues Impacting Humanities Education at Universities?
–Report contributed to 4Humanities by Jessica Meyer When budget season hits the federal government and the debate begins about where and how to cut spending, a perennial favorite target is the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and its sister organization, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEH, created in 1965 by Congress, […]
The Changing Humanities: UVA’s Praxis Program
In a recent op-ed as part of The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Digital Campus special issue, Bethany Nowviskie, director of Digital Research and Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, highlights UVA’s Praxis Program. The program, a competitively-awarded yearlong digital methods workshop and apprenticeship designed […]
Humanities and Public Life – A New Book Series
In a recent article for Inside Higher Ed, Teresa Mangum, associate professor of English and director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa, announced the launch of a new book series from the University of Iowa press: Humanities and Public Life. The series, edited by Mangum and Anne Valk, associate […]
The Humanities and the Corporate World: Dedicated Deep Thinkers
In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education (link to PDF), history professor Peter A. Coclanis – noting the importance of innovation to many businesses and the establishment in recent years of high-level positions like the CINO, or the chief innovation officer, in many businesses – argues for the creation of a new […]