Academia Archives

21 12, 2024

Not easy reading (The Economist)

By Humanities Watch|2024-12-21T07:28:48-05:00December 21st, 2024|Academia, education, Europe, Everything Else, Language, News, psychology, Writing|0 Comments

That the academic humanities engage in increasingly obscure jargon.

20 11, 2024

How the humanities nurture tech, and vice versa

By Humanities Watch|2024-11-21T06:02:32-05:00November 20th, 2024|Academia, Everything Else, History, Philosophy, Quotes, Religion, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Interviewing Sylvester Johnson, Kluge Chair in Science and Technology, on the humanities' future with technology.

12 11, 2024

Know-how and unlearning

By Humanities Watch|2024-11-27T09:48:51-05:00November 12th, 2024|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Observations, Philosophy, poetry, Religion, STEM|0 Comments

Reflections on Humanities Watch's ninth anniversary.

22 10, 2024

The present humanities in a global scope (World Humanities Report)

By Humanities Watch|2024-10-22T17:15:06-04:00October 22nd, 2024|Academia, Everything Else, History, Language, News, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

An annual review of the state of global humanities.

13 10, 2024

Columbus the wanderer (Sam Jones and Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2024-10-13T09:31:41-04:00October 13th, 2024|Academia, Central / South America, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, News, Politics, Religion, STEM|0 Comments

Researchers claim that DNA documents Columbus's Jewish ancestry.

5 10, 2024

A Librarian’s Life in Her Letters: Belle Greene and the Morgan Library

By Humanities Watch|2024-11-26T11:12:55-05:00October 5th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Asia, education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, painting, Quotes, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Letters reveal the shaping of a public institution, the Morgan Library.

8 09, 2024

Leonardo and the science of scent (Tim Brinkhof, Artnet)

By Humanities Watch|2024-09-08T17:55:00-04:00September 8th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Medicine, News, painting, science|0 Comments

Leonardo and the science of scent: a recent exhibit explores da Vinci's fascination with smell. From the article: Touted as a multi-sensory, olfactory experience, the exhibition shows that Leonardo got interested in perfumes after comparing the machinations of smell to those of sight and hearing. He collected commercially available perfumes, many of them made [...]

9 08, 2024