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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.

12 12, 2024

Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)

By Humanities Watch|2024-12-12T07:31:34-05:00December 12th, 2024|education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Language, News, psychology, Technology, Writing|0 Comments

New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.

2 12, 2024

December fables for the present time.

By Humanities Watch|2024-12-02T13:57:59-05:00December 2nd, 2024|Debate / dialogue, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Law, Literature, Observations, Philosophy, psychology, Writing|0 Comments

From dogs to monkeys, fables speak for themselves.

5 10, 2024

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

By Humanities Watch|2025-02-04T16:23:15-05:00October 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.

7 07, 2024

The novel brain (Carol Clark, Emory University eScienceCommons)

By Humanities Watch|2024-07-07T13:58:59-04:00July 7th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, Language, News, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Greater engagement with language and with other lives through reading novels.

27 02, 2024

The humanities we know

By Humanities Watch|2024-02-28T05:33:49-05:00February 27th, 2024|Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, Economics, education, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Politics, Quotes, STEM, Technology, Theater, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Talking about the launch of the new journal Public Humanities.

6 02, 2024

Art in the Industrial Age (Zarmeen Soomro, Sindh Courier)

By Humanities Watch|2024-02-06T16:01:19-05:00February 6th, 2024|Academia, Asia, education, environment, Everything Else, Language, Music, Nature, News, Politics, Writing|0 Comments

An exhibit at the University of Sindh shows the power of art to address a crisis of need.

9 07, 2023

The stories doctors tell (Emily Bobrow, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2023-07-09T07:22:18-04:00July 9th, 2023|Academia, Arts, education, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Medicine, News, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

A writing program to offer insight and solace to the cares of physicians.

4 07, 2023

Syncopated synapses (Jon Hamilton, NPR)

By Humanities Watch|2023-07-04T12:19:33-04:00July 4th, 2023|Academia, Arts, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, mathematics, Music, News, painting, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

How the arts help us think and create.

23 05, 2023

Rome reborn in our lives

By Humanities Watch|2023-05-24T08:57:37-04:00May 23rd, 2023|Academia, Economics, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, painting, Philosophy, Quotes, Writing|0 Comments

How travel to Rome is also a search for meaning.