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The Evolution of the Humanities

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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The arts and humanities: rejecting the zero-sum game

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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Human connection ‘key’ in shifting mindsets

The PIE News

The World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence held its semi-annual meetup online on May 9 to discuss how societies can come together to embrace a shared humanity. Given all that faces us,” she said, “the human connection is so important in today’s world, particularly with the divisiveness we are confronting.”

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Building community in online conferences, events (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

One statement in Higdon and Butler’s article stood out for us: “One additional risk of a remote conference—and, by extension, remote education—is that it keeps us isolated from each other.” In-person events can be isolating for anyone who is not already part of the in crowd.

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If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?

The Guardian - Higher Education

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. It would be a transformative event for humankind, one the world’s nations are surely prepared for. Or are they? Look at the mess we made when Covid hit.

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Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification

Dan Cohen

Sixty years ago, illustrator Arthur Radebaugh drew scenes from the future — that is, our present — including, quite presciently, remote education and work, self-driving cars, and an “electronic home library.” His Sunday strip that ran in newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune , was called “ Closer Than We Think.”.

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Humanity in Healthcare Emphasized in Youth Career Pathways Partnership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So much that in my last conversation with her on the night of January 16, 2021; she told me that she wanted to write a book on “humanity in healthcare”; adding that “they ought to treat folk humanely”. I believe that at the core of all of our research, planning, polices, and practices should be the elevation of people’s humanity.