By Agata Szczeszak-Brewer. Departures are stressful affairs. In 1904, James Joyce, an Irish Modernist writer, and Nora Barnacle, his girlfriend, began their lifelong pilgrimage through Europe. They had just met, a few months before — she a hotel maid from Galway, he a Jesuit-educated young man with poor eyesight and an ambition to become a famous writer. Joyce didn’t deceive Nora when he predicted the discomfort of their upcoming elopement and their life in exile. Read more...
By Jeffrey J. Williams. Paris. February 26, 1635. The Abbé François de Boisrobert stands before the newly minted Académie française and denounces Homer as a base street poet who eked out a living by declaiming his verses to the mob. Boisrobert’s impassioned speech was perhaps the first skirmish in la querelle des anciens et des modernes, whereby one group of writers sought to differentiate themselves from those who paid undue deference to the Greek and Latin poets. But the ancients couldn’t be dislodged so easily. When the corpus of Western literature consisted largely of two dozen writers who had set the standard for plays, essays, verse, and satires, it was no simple matter to consign them to the past, especially when the past was still present. More...
By Jeffrey J. Williams. Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of literary theory, scholars aimed to explode the foundations of Western metaphysics, foment a revolution of the sign, overturn gender hierarchies, and fight the class struggle. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The start of the calendar year is a big time for gatherings of academics, and reports about the state of the job markets in various disciplines. New data on economists continue a trend of better news for the social sciences than for the humanities. Read more...
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On 28 November, an invited group of leaders from arts academies and universities met at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland to discuss the doctorate in the arts.
The event included keynote presentations from the ORPHEUS Institute in Ghent, Belgium, and from the Conservatoire of Music Vincenzo Bellini Palermo, Italy, but was mostly based on interactive discussions concerning the principles and practices of doctoral education in the arts. The workshop largely focused on the nature of artistic research and how to ensure, document and get recognition for the reflection on artistic practice that characterises artistic research. Participants discussed at length how to concretely implement doctoral education in the arts and the challenges that this presented.
The event was organised by the European University Association (EUA), the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) and The University of Lausanne, with the help of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires and the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA). More information, including presentations from the event, is available here. More...
SOCIO-INT15- 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES will be held in Istanbul (Turkey), on the 8th, 9th and 10th of June 2015 is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics, independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and discuss issues concerning all fields of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. More...
The 2nd International Conference on Education and Social Sciences (INCESS15) is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics, independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and discuss issues concerning all fields of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. More...
By Kaitlin Mulhere. As many humanities programs struggle to avoid cuts or face tough questions about job prospects for graduates, Washington University in St. Louis will launch a doctoral degree program this fall to cater to aspiring academics with interests in specific components of classical studies. /https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
