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- Vacancy: Assistant Director 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology
- Call for Registration: Studies in Social and Political Thought Annual Conference. University of Sussex, June 20-21
- CFP: Society & Politics: Special Issue on Truth & Certainty in the Early Modern Period
- Idealism and Pragmatism Bibliography available now and open to submissions
- IP: PETAF Workshop on Norms, Taste and Value, 19-20 Jun, London
- Debate < at > LSE: What Are the Core Social-Democratic Values and How Important Are They? This Wednesday June 19, 6-7:30 pm.
- cfp: Postgraduate Conference ART & EMOTION (University of Hong Kong)
- FINAL REMINDER: Aesthetics and Gallery Education Conference, Liverpool
- Public Lecture by Jay Wallace at Potsdam University, July 4
- IET @ OU
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- Doug Clows’s Blog
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Tag Archives: humanities
#opened12 Reading Group – sign up here!
Following on from discussions around #opened12 and David Kernohan’s suggestion of a parrallel between Newman‘s approach to education and theories of Bildung, I’ve a mind to see whether there’s interest in a virtual reading group. We could start with The … Continue reading
Deconstruction: An Intro
Here’s an introductory lecture on deconstruction from Yale University Courses, helpfully released as part of an open course. Part two is available here.
Can Technology ‘Democratize’ Academia?
(This is a brief write-up of a presentation I gave at the Digital Humanities Colloquium a couple of months ago.) It is beyond doubt that new technologies are radically transforming the practices associated with studying and teaching the humanities. The … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, technology
Tagged academia, democracy, digital scholarship, education, humanities, philosophy, reflection, technology
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AHRC & ‘The Big Society’
I just received a response to my email to David Willetts MP about the use of ‘The Big Society’ as a ringfenced funding area by the AHRC. Here’s the text. Dear Dr Farrow Thank you for your email of 22 … Continue reading
Posted in politics, research
Tagged education, funding, humanities, policy, research
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Because you’re worth it: the New College of the Humanities
There’s been a lot of debate over the last week about a new private undergraduate college with the power to award degrees (conferred by the University of London) for two reasons. The ‘New College of the Humanities‘ (NCH) is roughly … Continue reading
Posted in education
Tagged dawkins, education, facebook, funding, grayling, he, humanities, impact, philosophy
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This Is Your Brain on Art
Why does Ramachandran continuously feel the need to reassure us that we can gain knowledge about art from neuroscience without losing anything? It seems to presuppose, at the very least, that the other option is a possibility, that looking for … Continue reading
Posted in research, science
Tagged aesthetics, art, humanities, interdisciplinarity, science
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