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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

In-person events can be isolating for anyone who is not already part of the in crowd. In-person events can be isolating for anyone who is not already part of the in crowd. We offer here ideas for what organizers of online events can learn from MYFest. ” More than 300 participants from five continents joined us.

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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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How AI can add the human touch that today’s college students need

University Business

AI is helping us help our students in ways that feel much more human than skeptics of this new technology might have thought possible. But the best chatbots also incorporate a human touch that manages to be engaging and empathetic. That makes humans more effective at doing what they do best, which is to dig into complex problems.

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Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification

Dan Cohen

Not great, but the authors note that this is just a start and the direction is promising: Most of the new and correct ‘Celebrity’ tags created by the AI platform were of crew members on set and political figures at events — people that the librarians would not normally tag in the ‘Keywords’ field. She was not tagged by the AI platform.