When David Simmonds was a young boy, his family attended the Harry Jerome Awards Gala in Toronto. The event, organized by the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA), celebrates excellence within the Black community. As each awardee was hon …
When I consider where my discipline will be in 40 years, I think of a question writer Jennifer Higgie asks about the value of art in society: “How can change be manifested if it can’t first be imagined?”
In myths from ancient Greek and Roman culture, Prometheus gave the technologies of fire and writing to humans. Some ancient writers saw these gifts as a curse, others as blessings.
How do we care for the growing population of young military veterans after they return from combat deployment? An answer to this question is not as simple as one might presume.
The humanities, we are being told, has no future as technology has already rendered it obsolete. There is little new in this, of course; the demise of the humanities has been imminent for at least 30 years. What is, perhaps, different now, is it has a new champion, one that will putatively reinvigorate and renew our disciplines, but simultaneously cause some disquiet among many it has come to ‘save.’
Students always ask in my archaeology courses: “But hasn’t everything there is to find already been found?” And I always tell them: “Goodness, I hope not, or I’d be out of job.”
James Joyce’s Ulysses, the novel I spend much of my time teaching and thinking and writing about, is full of predictions, as chapters confidently assert what will happen in a horse race later today, in the careers of men in public life and in their friends’ futures.
The only sensible thing to say about what the state will be in 40 years of a field of knowledge so new as digital humanities is that the humanities will be digital, that is …
Far too often, when non-native Canadians think of Indigenous peoples, they think of the past. Media images project fantasies of natives posed in a romantic state of nature, frozen in a distant moment of history.
You’ve been called in for a second interview for that job you really want.
Worrying more about finishing an essay on time than finishing first in a competition, Cindy Zhang didn’t realize her name had been called from the podium at Carnegie Hall.
On Friday, Nov. 2, nearly 200 students from 10 schools in the London area will gather at Western for the French for the Future-London Local Forum.
In life and art, you never know what you’re going to get. And that excites Jamie Q.
When I consider where my discipline will be in 40 years, I think of a question writer Jennifer Higgie asks about the value of art in society: “How can change be manifested if it can’t first be imagined?”
In myths from ancient Greek and Roman culture, Prometheus gave the technologies of fire and writing to humans. Some ancient writers saw these gifts as a curse, others as blessings.
How do we care for the growing population of young military veterans after they return from combat deployment? An answer to this question is not as simple as one might presume.
The humanities, we are being told, has no future as technology has already rendered it obsolete. There is little new in this, of course; the demise of the humanities has been imminent for at least 30 years. What is, perhaps, different now, is it has a new champion, one that will putatively reinvigorate and renew our disciplines, but simultaneously cause some disquiet among many it has come to ‘save.’
Students always ask in my archaeology courses: “But hasn’t everything there is to find already been found?” And I always tell them: “Goodness, I hope not, or I’d be out of job.”
James Joyce’s Ulysses, the novel I spend much of my time teaching and thinking and writing about, is full of predictions, as chapters confidently assert what will happen in a horse race later today, in the careers of men in public life and in their friends’ futures.
The only sensible thing to say about what the state will be in 40 years of a field of knowledge so new as digital humanities is that the humanities will be digital, that is …
Far too often, when non-native Canadians think of Indigenous peoples, they think of the past. Media images project fantasies of natives posed in a romantic state of nature, frozen in a distant moment of history.
You’ve been called in for a second interview for that job you really want.
Worrying more about finishing an essay on time than finishing first in a competition, Cindy Zhang didn’t realize her name had been called from the podium at Carnegie Hall.
On Friday, Nov. 2, nearly 200 students from 10 schools in the London area will gather at Western for the French for the Future-London Local Forum.
In life and art, you never know what you’re going to get. And that excites Jamie Q.