Catégorie: LSH
Cultivating Partnerships in the Digital Humanities
By William Pannapacker. What teaching colleges and research universities have to gain from collaboration. As academics we can be too snug in our institutional silos. We
sometimes think of one another as competitors for students, and as a
result we duplicate scarce resources in mutually...
Horizons for Social Sciences and Humanities
The “Horizons for Social Sciences and Humanities” conference will take place at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania from 23 to 24 September 2013.
Organised during the Lithuanian EU Presidency, the conference organisers note that the conference “will elaborate the...
In Britain, a Return to the Idea of the Liberal Arts
By D. D. Guttenplan. LONDON — Until very recently, students in Britain
who wanted to study more than one or two subjects at college received
some blunt advice: “Go west” — to the United States or Canada, where the
classical tradition of a broad-based...
I commit sociology, and I don't intend to stop
By Michael Adams . I’ve been committing sociology since my early youth. My parents and even my parish priest failed to detect early signs of trouble, even though I read the daily newspaper voraciously (a common warning signal among teenagers in the 1960s).
Father Breen may have...
Sociology does pay off Add to ...
By Antonia Maioni. Coming out of high school, I broke my father’s heart. Instead of attending secretarial college, the guarantee of immediate employment in those days, I enrolled in an undergraduate arts program at university.
Any of the jobs I would have trained for then would be...
De l'intérêt de recruter des littéraires au sein des entreprises!
Par Delphine Jouenne . LE CERCLE. Halte aux idées reçues, le rôle des littéraires au sein des entreprises doit être valorisé, dans un monde formaté qui tente de se réinventer. Oui, les formations littéraires en...
7ème édition de l’opération Phénix pour les étudiants en lettres et sciences humaines
Depuis 2007, l’opération Phénix permet à des diplômés de masters 2 littéraires d’accéder par une voie spécifique à des postes en CDI chez Danone, L’Oréal, Axa ou la Bred. Une occasion à saisir,...
Les "humanités" au cœur de l'excellence
Par Jean-François Pradeau. Document de travail (N° 2013-02) - Les "humanités" au cœur de l'excellence scolaire et professionnelle.
L’ensemble des études et des rapports qui ont été consacrés ces quinze dernières...
Humanities still matter, say experts at U of R summit
By Kerry Benjoe . Humans will never be obsolete, which is why social sciences and humanities will always be relevant - even in today's rapidly changing society, say some experts. That was the message at the Humanities and Social Sciences summit hosted by the University of Regina on...
The crisis literature in higher ed, revisited again and again
By Léo Charbonneau . According to a survey last fall ,
89 percent of U.S. adults and 96 percent of senior administrators at
colleges and universities said higher education is in crisis, and nearly
4 in 10 in both groups considered the crisis to be “severe.” More...
Why STEM Should Care About the Humanities
By Kira Hamman . One need not look far these days to find people skeptical (at
best) about the value of higher education. Most of these people
particularly question the value of a liberal-arts education, which they
view as outdated and elitist. Claiming economic pragmatism, they seek...
Salon de la valorisation en sciences humaines et sociales
Innovatives SHS - Salon de la valorisation en sciences humaines et sociales - 16 et 17 mai 2013 à l’Espace Charenton
L'Institut des sciences humaines et sociales du CNRS et l'Alliance Athéna organisent, les 16 et 17 mai 2013, Innovatives SHS. Salon de la valorisation en...
Quel rôle et quelle organisation pour l’université aujourd’hui?
Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d' Olivier Rollot . Quel rôle et quelle organisation pour l’université aujourd’hui?: entretien avec Jacques Comby, président de l’université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3.
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Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?
Contrary to US Senate rulings, we need more and better funded social science, not less, says Ziyad Marar – without discussing how it differs from natural science, it remains easy to relegate.
So it has finally happened. After years of failed attempts by
senators Tom Coburn and...
Thinking About the Public
By Paula M. Krebs . With so much focus on higher education's obligations to job preparation, the humanities are perpetually playing defense, especially in public higher education. We academic defenders of the humanities generally take one of two lines: we argue that 1) our...
L'université Stendhal s'allie au conservatoire de Grenoble
L'université Stendhal de Grenoble, délivrant notamment des diplômes en Humanités, vient de conclure un partenariat avec le conservatoire de la ville. Un rapprochement qui offre de nouvelles possibilités de formation aux étudiants!
Il y a du...
Defying the Humanities Crisis
By Carl Straumsheim . Many humanities programs are fighting off cuts and trying to hold on
to faculty lines, but two philosophy departments are boosting their
enrollments and reputations through a combination of administrations
willing to invest in the discipline and...
Harvard Asks Graduates to Donate Time to Free Online Humanities Class
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA . Alumni of elite colleges are accustomed to getting requests for money from their alma mater, but the appeal that Harvard sent to thousands of graduates on Monday was something new: a plea to donate their time and intellects to the rapidly expanding...
The supposed value of a humanities degree from Harvard?
The supposed value of a humanities degree from Harvard?
OMG…this was my first thought on reading this article “ Harvard Asks Alumni for Help With Humanities MOOC ”
published in yesterday’s Chronicle of Education. [I've just read it as
I'm a little behind in my...
Humanities Ph.D. Plus
By Carl Straumsheim . Doomsayers about the job market for humanities Ph.D.s are everywhere.
In response to a growing number of graduates unable to find a job in
academe, seven universities are starting a new project to prepare
students for a career that may lead...

