The myth of the Humanities in crisis
Digithum, 2004 Denying from the start that Humanities are in crisis, the author examines certain aspects of this statement, reflecting on what is meant by stating that the Humanities are in crisis, arguing for the growing interest in human sciences and looking more ...
Josep Maria Terricabras
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On Displacement and the Humanities—An Introduction
Humanities, 2023 When we conceived of the volume, Displacement and the Humanities: Manifestos from the Ancient to the Present, six years ago, important and urgent studies on the subject of migration had increased substantially over the past decade in response to what has
Elena Isayev +3 more
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Buddhism and Humanities Education Reform in American Universities
Humanities, 2022 Using statistical data, scholarly research, institutional models from higher education, and highlighting key personages from the academy and the business world, we argue that including Buddhism-related content into the general education of students can ...
Jiang Wu, Robert Edward Gordon
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Publish and Anguish: Reconsidering the Never-Ending Crisis of the Humanities
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2010 Publish and Anguish: Reconsidering the Never Ending Crisis of the Humanities Russell Cobb This article reviews three books (Michael Bérubé. The Left at War. New York: New York University Press, 2009; Stanley Fish. Save the World on Your Own Time. Oxford:
Russell Cobb
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Self and Society in the Corona Crisis. Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences [PDF]
, 2021 The corona crisis has put a spotlight on the importance of science in modern societies. But not only medicine and the ‘hard’ sciences, also the humanities and social sciences are called for: Which kinds of political rationality determine action in the ...
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Public Arenas of the Humanities : The Circulation of Knowledge in the Postwar Period [PDF]
, 2022 The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how a new history of thepostwar humanities could be written. Drawing on approaches from thehistory of knowledge, it outlines the conditions of the circulation ofknowledge in the public sphere during the 1960s
Ragni Svensson +6 more
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The environmental humanities in 'the age of consequences' [PDF]
, 2020 The environmental humanities are suffused with a sense of urgency. As geoscientists sound the alarm about human treatment of the Earth, likewise environmental humanists seek to trigger the “conversation of humankind” that seems scarcely to be happening ...
Castree, N +2 more
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Telling the Story of Iberian Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities [PDF]
, 2019 This is a paper that I presented at the 2019 MLA in Chicago. In this paper I situate discussions of the field of Iberian Studies within the context of the crisis of the Humanities and the future of Cultural ...
William Nichols
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Intervening in French: A Colony in Crisis, the Digital Humanities, and the French Classroom [PDF]
, 2017 This essay explores the use of *A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Crisis of 1789* in the French literature classroom and how it helps address gaps in digital humanities and French language pedagogy while interrogating the colonial ...
de Gail, Brittany M +7 more
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'Impact', 'value' and 'bad economics' : making sense of the problem of value in the arts and humanities [PDF]
, 2014 Questions around the value of the arts and humanities to the contemporary world, the benefits they are expected to bring to the society that supports them through funding have assumed an increased centrality within a number of disciplines, not limited to
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