#Humanities

UVM is cutting our Class Civ, Latin, Greek majors, Class Civ, Latin, Greek minors, and our MA and MAT programs. The department will be eliminated. I'm a lecturer, up for
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https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1295959585572950018?s=20Here the Economist leading the charge to take advantage of the covid pandemics to further normalize universities: Get rid of "useless" (for them) subjects, online cou
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Yaaa! All "Hindus" must stop listening to Bollywood songs, better yet start writing them in shuddh Hindi, like "pareeekshaaaa ho gayi dhairya ki, aayi na kuchh samachar mere premi ki"Sounds
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The vast VAST majority of people with student debt aren’t working for white glove law firms or teaching at MIT. Lots of folks with debt never finished college; I don’t
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A thread:The PM said he wanted women to rise but not at the expense of men. It's time white men stopped governing our country.51% of our population are women. It's
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A Reflection At the end of September, I made a FB post. “I am finalizing my doctoral dissertation at an R1 institution on four second-generation Indian American teachers who are
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Hi there! As the Secretary-General of the US commission on Military History, I have thoughts on milhist in American colleges. In sum, I personally think this op-ed wildly misdiagnoses a
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When we're exposed to terms like 'woke', 'snowflake', 'cultural Marxism' or 'identity politics, we're experiencing 'weaponised narrative' - designed for speed of transmission, virulence, & exp
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Scholars of fascism, the far right and authoritarianism wrote an open letter of concern that "regardless of the outcome of the United States’ election, democracy as we know it is
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Do people in the social sciences and humanities (esp. history) ever get bored by doing PhDs/research on the 'race/gender/colonial' aspects of x or y? I certainly get bored of hearing
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I just finished listening to episode 288 of @AstrologyCast on which @chrisbrennan7 discusses astrology with non-astrologers who repeatedly describe themselves as skeptics.(a thread)https://twitter.com/AstrologyCast/status/135343961704792473
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Good morning, are you looking for resources for humanities phds thinking about careers in and beyond the tenure track? Here are some ways I can help [thread] The Academic Job
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A lot of rhetoric that assumes particular acts to be neutral or inherently good is not helpful. I'm thinking, for some reason, of how reading is characterized. I used to
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I want you to meet the Liberal-National Coalition members who were at uni while it was FREE.Instead of making corporations pay their tax and making uni and TAFE free for
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The Rawlesian veil of ignorance is a standard in ethical philosophy, unlike the trolley problem, which is only ever found among people who never took humanities. In a nutshell:Imagine you
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Exclusivity is problematic with one exception.In many cases, exclusivity is used to make an us vs. them space. By gatekeeping, you force the outer group to feel a wide range
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