Student Voices 
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Can you fill your sandwich with Dante? Some reflections after the Italian universities’ “reform”
By Domenico Fiormonte, University of Roma Tre, 4Humanities International Correspondent On December 14th, 2010, students from all over Italy filled the streets of major cities protesting – and, in Rome, rioting – against a new University Reform bill, the third in ten years and one that endangers the very existence of one of the largest [...]
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Current Athens Media Art Events
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Despite the economic crisis, a number of media art events are taking place in Athens. Creativity flourishes amidst difficult social and economic changes. It seems a crucial time of transformation is stimulating creativity and collaboration for the first time in Greece. The many events one can mention include Athens [...]
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Unveiling the New India
By Oeendrila Lahiri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 4Humanities International Correspondent At a time when advanced countries such as the US and UK are drastically cutting down on education funds and especially attacking humanities, India seems to have managed to keep itself in the good books of all educationists.Why, even Obama cites it as an [...]
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Scotland: Stoppard fights cuts to languages at Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is talking about closing down many of its modern language programs to save money. This has people like Tom Stoppard sending letters to the Education Secretary and students protesting. The Guardian quotes Robin Perkins who is completing a degree in Portuguese as saying, “They are failing to understand how much modern [...]
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Public Research Competition 2011 at the University of Alberta
The University of Alberta is running an innovative graduate student competition for ideas and strategies for communicating Arts (Humanities, Social Sciences and Fine/Performing Arts) research to the public. See Public Research Competition 2011 – Faculty of Arts – University of Alberta. The idea is that graduate students get a limited amount of time to pitch [...]
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Undergraduates Write Manifesto on Digital Humanities
Students in an honors course on “Introduction to Digital Humanities” at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania have written for the Student Voices section of 4Humanities a “Manifesto” on why they “believe that teaching digital humanities to undergraduate students is critically important” for showing “digital natives,” as they call themselves, how to broaden the connection between the [...]
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PhDComics (continued)
From Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher & Deeper: A Grad Student Comic Strip. (Used by permission.) See previous PhDComics strip
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“What can undergraduates do with digital media at a liberal arts college?”
Students at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges met in November 2010 for a two-day symposium titled “Re:Humanities”, billed as “of, by, and for undergraduates, featuring innovative digital research.” As Evan McGonagill (Bryn Mawr, 2010) said in introductory remarks, the conference was an attempt to show how the digital humanities could be deliberately applied to undergraduate [...]
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Students protest tuition increases around the world
Students are protesting tuition fees around the world. The Guardian reports on the third day of tuition fee hike protests in the UK, Student protesters ignore winter freeze with mass rallies against tuition fees. In Italy students protested the proposed education reforms in more than one city, and in California The New York Times reports [...]
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PhDComics
From Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher & Deeper: A Grad Student Comic Strip. (Used by permission.) See next PhDComics strip.
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Brienza and Priego: The Impact of the Budget Cuts in the United Kingdom on Postgraduate Education
Casey Brienza, Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and Ernesto Priego, Ph.D. candidate in Information Studies at University College London, assess the impact of the planned higher-education budget cuts in the U.K. on students seeking Ph.D. and other postgraduate degrees Yet lost in this debate is much in the way of [...]
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Ernesto Priego: “These must be truly apocalyptic times if there is a need to explain why the humanities matter”
These must be truly apocalyptic times if there is a need to explain why the humanities matter. Theodor Adorno’s famous phrase, “no poetry after Auschwitz”, comes to mind, as well as Walter Benjamin’s idea that there was no document of culture that was not as well a document of barbarism. Adorno was a humanist reflecting [...]
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“This Democracy Needs Humanities”
Photo coverage by Melissa Ho of student protests in England against government plans to cut funding for higher education on a massive scale, November 12, 2010 (used by permission). For other photos of the demonstrations, see Melissa’s Flickr photostream.
