letters

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.

2 12, 2022

Math, logic, and the Holy Roman Emperor (Hugh Schofield, BBC News)

By Humanities Watch|2022-12-02T10:29:39-05:00December 2nd, 2022|Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, mathematics, military, News, Politics, Religion, Writing|0 Comments

The science of cryptography helps unlock a secret 16th-C. exchange.

30 11, 2021

Culture as Care: A Talk on Humanist Letter-Writing (in Italian)

By Humanities Watch|2021-11-30T09:38:55-05:00November 30th, 2021|lecture|0 Comments

Exploring the connection between care and culture in Renaissance letters

21 07, 2021

For Your Eyes Only (Richard Fisher, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2021-07-21T14:49:24-04:00July 21st, 2021|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, News, Politics, Religion, Technology, Writing|0 Comments

Discovering, and unlocking, old tricks that keep history hidden.

28 11, 2018

The usefulness of literature and philosophy

By Humanities Watch|2018-11-28T12:12:02-05:00November 28th, 2018|Academia, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Philosophy, poetry, Quotes|0 Comments

A Renaissance conception of the usefulness and value of the humanities, for humanity.

24 07, 2018

Upstream on the Cam

By Humanities Watch|2018-08-06T13:14:57-04:00July 24th, 2018|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, Literature, Observations, Philosophy, psychology, science, STEM, Technology, Writing|0 Comments

Writing against the current of the present time. A letter from the UK.