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The City as a Place of Economic and Social Struggle and Contradiction: Current Public Art Projects in Athens

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Dec 012012
 
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent We all know from listening to the news about the urgent situation in Greece. We know the unemployment numbers and we see people protesting, complaining and being destructive in an attempt to show their anger and fear. People outside Greece, however, still don’t really know how everyday people, including [...]

Why Science Communication Needs the Humanities

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Nov 272012
 
Reflecting on the May 2012 National Academy of Science’s Sackler Colloquium, entitled “The Science of Science Communication,” Assistant Professor of Writing Michael Svoboda argues in a post for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media that the humanities have an important role to play in communicating climate science. This role, which Svoboda emphasizes [...]

Spec Work and the Humanities

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Nov 142012
 
By Dana Solomon As part of my own research on the use of information visualization in the humanities, I have become interested in the past and present overlap of graphic design practice and literary studies. In considering these and other overlaps between the practice of reading and interpreting texts and the labor involved in designing [...]

Infographics Friday: Humanities Career Outcomes

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Nov 102012
 
Today’s infographic is from the research done by L. Maren Wood, reported in The Chronicle and in 4Humanities, on the career outcomes of Ph.D.’s in history. Wood researched the careers of history Ph.D.’s who graduated from 1990 to 2010 (taking every other year) from Duke University, Ohio State University, the University of North Carolina at [...]

What Can You Do with a Ph.D. in the Humanities?

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Nov 052012
 
In a recent piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education, L. Maren Wood features the results of her research regarding what nonacademic career paths recent graduates with Ph.D.’s in history are taking. Curious about what fields graduates like her who didn’t take the tenure track are working in, Wood used researched the careers of history [...]

12 Artists | 12 Barbershops | Athens: An Interview with Blanka Amezkua

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Oct 312012
 
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Art, through both its positive and negative aspects, often reveals to the viewer unexplored aspects of him- or herself. Art, in order to touch beauty, is also often obliged to employ irregular materials and methods in order to make an innovative proposal. The surrealists and the Dadaists not only [...]

Crisis in the arts as a keyword? Or as the key to production?

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Oct 292012
 
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent It seems that crisis is the keyword for lots of post from me, writing from Athens. As with most things in life it seems there is more than one side to the story, and crisis appears to be the key for people to open up, act collaboratively and express [...]

Crisis in the arts as a keyword? Or as the key to production?

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Oct 292012
 
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent It seems that crisis is the keyword for lots of post from me, writing from Athens. As with most things in life it seems there is more than one side to the story, and crisis appears to be the key for people to open up, act collaboratively and express [...]

Showing arts, humanities … and symposiums matter! Report on the 4Hum@UCL Symposium

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Oct 272012
 
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent I had the big honor and pleasure of attending the 4Humanities Symposium, “Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter,” which took place September 18th at UCL. It is so incredibly nice to get to know a community and the people you have worked for and been in touch with virtually [...]

Infographics Friday: Bachelor of Arts Degrees, 1988-2008

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Oct 272012
 
This week’s infographic is from a special report Jeffrey Brainard of The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote over two years ago, detailing the numbers of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the humanities from 1988 – 2008. Compiled using data collected by the U.S. Department of Education, Brainard writes that the chart shows that “the number of bachelor’s [...]
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