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30 09, 2018

Building Knowledge in the Humanities

By Humanities Watch|2018-10-03T14:27:19-04:00September 30th, 2018|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, Philosophy, poetry, Politics, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada, Videos|0 Comments

From a talk on the humanities and Renaissance humanism presented at Syracuse University, April 2018

5 09, 2018

Dreams, yesterday and today

By Humanities Watch|2018-09-05T14:54:25-04:00September 5th, 2018|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Libraries, Literature, Nature, Philosophy, poetry, psychology, Quotes, Religion, science, Writing|5 Comments

How dreams have affected our reasoning and reality, then and now.

6 08, 2018

Foundations of learning (Martin Oehlen, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger)

By Humanities Watch|2018-08-06T09:36:28-04:00August 6th, 2018|education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, Museums, News, science, Technology|0 Comments

The hidden bases of learning, not only literary, beneath our feet.

4 07, 2018

Capturing time in elegant space (Cameron Laux, BBC Culture)

By Humanities Watch|2018-07-04T11:45:32-04:00July 4th, 2018|Arts, education, Europe, History, Libraries, Literature, News, painting, Philosophy, Photography, Writing|0 Comments

The artfulness of library spaces in their effort to capture time and history.

17 02, 2018

Sourcing Shakespeare in cyberspace (Michael Blanding, NY Times)

By Humanities Watch|2018-02-16T18:49:38-05:00February 17th, 2018|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, News, Philosophy, poetry, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Cyber-sleuthing appears to uncover a new source for Shakespeare's plays.

4 01, 2018

Digitizing the pathways of publishing (Jennifer Clark, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2018-01-03T14:53:42-05:00January 4th, 2018|Academia, business, education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Libraries, Literature, News, STEM, Technology, Writing|0 Comments

By digital demonstration, researchers discover how publishing pathways and networks spread literacy among various social and economic classes.

18 09, 2017

The Two Gardens

By Humanities Watch|2017-09-20T19:24:28-04:00September 18th, 2017|Academia, Arts, Asia, education, Everything Else, History, Libraries, mathematics, Observations, Philosophy, psychology, science, Technology, U.S. / Canada|1 Comment

Do gardens display the course of time, or a timeless science?

29 07, 2017

Finding the words in a sea of literature

By Humanities Watch|2017-07-28T20:39:19-04:00July 29th, 2017|Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, poetry, Videos, Writing|0 Comments

Samuel Johnson charts the history of language to create a monumental work.

8 07, 2017

Out of the woods: no trees at the library

By Humanities Watch|2017-07-08T08:00:09-04:00July 8th, 2017|Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Observations, painting, Philosophy, Religion, science, Writing|1 Comment

The Vatican City correspondent deliberates on the absence of trees at the library.

18 11, 2016

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston (September 2016 – January 2017)

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-18T21:30:10-05:00November 18th, 2016|2016, Academia, Arts, Europe, Exhibits, Libraries, Literature, Other Sites, Recommendations, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston: three venues showcase the rich store of imagination in Europe before modernity. From the description: The exhibition presents more than 260 outstanding manuscripts and printed books from nineteen Boston-area collections, dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries. h/t Roberta Morosini