I am excited to present @galaxyfreiburg in a panel of #LoveDataweek with my colleagues from the Central Data Facility and the DH Lab next week:
What counts as “research data” in the humanities? How can we get and responsibly manage that data?
Join us for an interactive talk that answers these questions and introduces you to different institutions at the University of Freiburg to help you with your research data analysis.
I don't need an #Introduction post, but I do need a post to pin with new account.
I am an independent scholar of various #humanities. I am often distracted from those studies by writing #poetry. I have lived with #disability my entire adult life. I spent the majority of my life below the poverty line. I earned a master's as an adult to escape.
Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by Christian Strippel & Magnus Rust.
Johns Hopkins has a metropolis new student center at the same time funding cuts are coming in. And are the cuts just to #Humanities? No. #STEM is on the chopping block as well. So what are students doing besides enjoying their new mega student center?
“Part of what we do is we’re conservators, keeping a body of knowledge going. We want to innovate and we want to think new things about it, and, you know, we want to make it relevant to the present day, but we’re also trying to keep this knowledge alive.”
#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by
@strippel (WI) & Magnus Rust (
@unibasel ).
Today's installment of romance horror is all about the undead avengers of the ! Two gruesome stories about the revenge of the dishonored on their offenders, which perfectly illustrate the importance of horror literature in trauma work of a society. In the following two, we are speaking about the trauma brought on the two peoples of Italy and Spain, respectively, during the Napoleonic occupation.
Still not sure I understand how Plant Humanities is formulating itself and how I feel about it. However, I do feel there's room for more interdisciplinary work between Botany and the Humanities, for sure.
Yes, in 2021 JD Vance literally said
"[W]e have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country... The professors are the enemy."
And no, he wasn't joking. The video is chilling.
@petergleick I often don't understand how this can still surprise anyone: It's the blueprint of every fascist system. We can learn from history that one of the first steps is to eradicate unwelcome #education and critical thinking. After all, how else can people be collectively stupidised by propaganda? AcademicChatter group
There is a positive correlation between the last ten years of cutting #humanities programs in U.S. universities and what we see happening in the country now.
Summer School of the #Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies/Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe (KFG): « Performing #Religion in the #City – #Urban Spaces, Interactions and #Media »
June 30-July 4, 2025 - Erfurt - DE (on site)
Closing date for applications March 15, 2025
"This summer school is designed for advanced MA #students and #Phd#researchers in the fields of #Religious Studies, #History, Media Studies, #Art History, Cultural History, #Architectural History, Archaeology, Dance and #Music Studies, as well as neighbouring disciplines.
A BA in the humanities is required, preferably with a background in history and religious studies".
Looking at how #LLM are promoted by their fans, I've come to the conclusion:
Pretty much everyone from a #STEM background - myself definitely included! - owes the #Humanities a huge apology.
I mean, I get it. When I was a young student of physics, it was easy for me to sneer at philosophy students and whatnot. After all, we dealt with hard, measurable facts, while those people dealt with some weird thought constructs that had no relevancy to the real world - right?
But this is the end result - #TechBro culture and a vast portion of our entire economy using digital bullshit generators instead of critical thinking, and using this to lead us into a fascist future where either Truth or Facts have become meaningless.
Very happy to announce that my employers, the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Iranian Studies, are finally off X and onto a range of other platforms including the Fediverse.
If you have any interest in (or want to find out a bit more about) the cultures and languages of the Caucasus, Iran, and central Asia, then please do go and follow them
@IranianStudies :)
Yerevan, 2023, a wide-angle view of the city. The distinctive shape of Mount Ararat is visible in the background, with the smaller peak on the left and the higher peak wreathed in cloud to the right.
My Website with homepage https://japanned.hcommons.org/ is at Knowledge Commons, formerly Humanities Commons. They have recently introduced a more detailed KC Works system of metadata and information on research repository deposits. The template of our profile pages allows for self-introductory and networking information as well as our deposits in the KC [Knowledge Commons] Works repository of academic and creative works. I have 85 deposits in a wide range of 25 genres or categories.
The new KC Works system also allows for editing and adding information, so I have gone through the 85 deposits, updating some of them especially to make the content more immediately accessible. Visitors to the deposit pages can usually see a PDF file of the content or download it, but if not, click on the Details tab and then the URL.
"The crisis in the humanities in #SouthKorea is partly rooted in a lack of public awareness about the value, meaning, and relevance of these fields. This Nobel win could change that mindset."
Episode 5.6: Low Carbon Methods for Doing and Communicating Research With Dr Anne Pasek
This episode’s guest is Dr Anne Pasek, Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and Environment, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment at Trent University. Dr Pasek is co-founder of the Low Carbon Research Methods Group, and she talks to Ariel all about what Low Carbon Research is (and can look like!), the “carbon footprint” of academic research, new innovative ways for research to respond to the climate crisis, the importance of zines, and even hosting her own solar server in her backyard!
It was bad enough when US universities had to start teaching basic writing skills, but now I'm starting to see courses with titles like "Reading 101." 😬