#Humanities

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and_furiouser

Something I noticed doing humanities is you can basically coast through doing a minimum of readings as long as you are an eloquent writer with a creative imagination. I could

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

isanchezprado

What I have been thinking as someone that likes the work of Rita Felski and that agrees with some (though not all) the critiques raised by Sheila Liming, is how

Rachel Willie

RachelJWillie

Let’s get English Lit trending for all the right reasons ⁦@EngSharedFuture⁩ ⁦@EnglishAssoc⁩ ⁦@UnivEnglish⁩! A degree in literature can help you to solve large scale human problems through encouraging you to

vasabjit banerjee

vasabjit_b

My introduction to humanities and social science from my father, an orthopedic surgeon, sheds light on why universities ought to discard their myopic STEM obsession. A short thread... My father

Claire Campbell

HKHClaire

Students in my class on 18thC North America were asked two questions on their final take-home paper (h/t @egan): "What was this class about? What did you learn?" This ...

Matt Denny (he/him)

Matt_Denny

This feels less like a funny joke and more like politically a irresponsible statement. I am, most certainly, reading too much into this and I will always joke about how

Ananya Chakravarti

achakrava

Academic real talk on public humanities: from the moment I got my PhD I believed that I had a responsibility to give back to the communities upon which my own

Jonathan Marks

marksjo1

I've just finished @ProfEricAdler's Battle of the Classics. It is well-worth the read, a book that can be read profitably both by those with a passing interest in the fate

Cornbread

Bootlicker9000

The coup wasn't CIA backed, the CIA were planning a coup through their congress and a different general. They didn't know much about Pinochet until he took over.https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1304279611338043397 The original

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

On 3-26, I'll be talking about "Ancient Archives: History, Use, Ethics, Problems" at the Columbia Classics Colloquium w/@papyrologyatman, #BrentNongbri, and #SamTaha (Abdul Salam Taha). Here's a thread on Sam's must-re

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

I am...um...slowly coming around to critiques of (much) scholarly writing in the humanities. The problem isn't that people can't understand it—as I've pointed out, physics is hard for laypeople—it's that

Jessica Evans

JPenelope_Evans

@UVMHumanities I've been thinking about prison. Two years ago I taught mythology through the Liberal Arts in Prison Program at UVM at a women's prison. The course provided a space

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BelindaJones68

Good morning #auspolI thought I’d have a squizz at the University qualifications of federal MPs/Senators to see how many went to Uni and how many did a BA or Humanities

Robert MacLean

bob_maclean

Thread: There’s a document we hold at @UofGlasgowASC which I’ve long found affecting and troubling — the 1829 appraisal of the Scottish-owned Invera (i.e. Inverawe) plantation on Tobago, listing some

Osman Faruqi

oz_f

Folks, let me explain how by cutting funding to the humanities and increasing student fees the government is actually creating incentives for unis to enroll *more* arts students.(For my sins

Shanmukh

maidros78

1) A generation of students were ruined by communist propaganda in the 1960s and 1970s. They went on to become naxals, and communist ideologues. Most of their lives were ruined,

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