by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Amy Kaufman, head law librarian at the William R. Lederman Law Library, Queen’s University, Ontario, remembers her first London Rare Books School. I had been a law librarian at a Canadian university for about ten years when I first heard about the Institute of...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Graduate Study, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Katherine Hindley, assistant professor of medieval literature at Singapore’s Nanyany Technological University, discusses the advantages of studying palaeography as a cross-institutional community. My interest in manuscript studies began as a postgraduate student on a...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Training and Research
Dr Ellie Bleeker, researcher at Huygens Institute in Amsterdam, Dr Anne McLaughlin, senior research fellow at the National Gallery’s TANC-IIIF project, and Dr Christopher Ohge, Institute of English Studies and Digital Humanities Research Hub lecturer, on a hybrid...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Research & Resources
By Professor Eve Patten, director of Trinity College Dublin’s Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute When the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin was invited to contribute to this blog, it gave...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics
By Ludmilla Jordanova, emeritus professor of history and visual culture at Durham University One of the costs of professionalisation is the erection of boundaries. Sometimes these are necessarily rigid – everyone knows something about health, some people know a great...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Philosophy
By Robert Newman, president and director of the National Humanities Center For many years we have heard alarming news about the crisis in the humanities. The number of humanities majors in colleges and universities has declined steadily and, because of supply and...