The “Two Cultures” revisited (Roger Kimball, The New Criterion)
Reviewing the "two cultures" debate in light of modern science.
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08, 2017
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06, 2017
Latin lives, as much as we do (and perhaps more)
The life of Latin is part and parcel of our own.
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05, 2017
Listening in health care: a humanities task (Philippa Göranson, Global Listening Centre)
Restoring the art of listening in the health care setting.
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02, 2017
Humanities citizens and industrial consumers (Sarah Churchwell, Times Higher Education)
How the humanities may lead us to greater self-knowledge, beyond the demands of the market place.
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02, 2017
The humanities at Davos (YaleNews)
The humanities at Davos: Yale's President Peter Salovey, a scholar of emotional intelligence, speaks at the World Economic Forum about the place of humanities. From the article: Speaking at the reception ... Salovey emphasized the ways that the humanities can promote understanding, such as how the study of languages can provide insights into a culture, reading literature can [...]
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11, 2016
Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston (September 2016 – January 2017)
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
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11, 2016
Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston
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
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09, 2016
The costs of learning
The costs of learning: prudent parents have thought of better investments than financing the studies of their children I am thinking of something I heard in Bologna, where I was a student, from a certain honorable citizen, the father of a legal scholar, who told me more than once that there was nothing he regretted as much [...]
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09, 2016
On Muslims living in Europe
On Muslims living in Europe: the past not only informs the present, but also expands our sense of the politically and culturally possible. Then I reached the country of Hungary, where the people called Bashghird live. They are descended from the first tribes that came from the lands of the Turks and entered the lands of [...]