Questions of the Humanities and its Value
The integrative humanities is a form of value creation because it shows how contemporary rewritings of the past damage the present and the future.
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The tense dynamic between academic freedom and academic accountability will persist for publicly funded universities â and questions
will be asked of the âutilityâ of disciplines in an age of economic downturns and calls for instrumentalisation â social usefulness â of research. In this context, disciplinary distinctions will be exacerbated where funding agencies will examine âutilityâ above all else.
Here it is germane to note that the quantum and varieties of funding are starkly different across disciplines. Let us evaluate how many â and in what quantum â funding sources are available to the sciences (the various research agencies, DBT, DST etc) and those for humanities research (the ICHR, I
My Climate Story The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities presents this screening of the short documentary film “My Climate Story.” The film features Philadelphia-area teachers and students discussing how they ve experienced climate change.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Eventbrite - Food Smart Dublin, Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities presents One Year of Irish Seafood - Book Launch and End of Project Event - Thursday, 17 June 2021 - Find event and ticket information.
Reconsiderations of past, present, and future in a new environmental humanities book Featuring contributions from scholars representing a range of disciplines, ‘Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities,’ is an outgrowth of the Penn Program for Environmental Humanities.
For a geologist, 200 million years may seem like the blink of an eye. To a historian, the
18th century is still highly relevant. And to researchers grappling with climate change, future scenarios provide a compelling reason to act now.
In the new book, “Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities,” Bethany Wiggin of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) and co-editors Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, both alumnae of Penn and PPEH, bring together reflections from experts in a variety of academic disciplines on the relationships between past, present, and future and what that means for a planet in crisis.
By Susan Gonzalez
May 17, 2021
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Gabriella Blatt in front of Sterling Memorial Library.
Yale was not Gabriella Blatt’s first-choice college until she visited the Native American Cultural Center (NACC) during a trip to campus for Bulldog Days. That, she said, was a “game changer.”
Blatt, who was accepted into seven Ivy League schools, was impressed that an entire building at Yale was devoted to Native student life. During her time at Yale the NACC became her anchor a fact, she says, that was ironic.
“In high school, I couldn’t wait to get off the reservation,” said the graduating senior, a member of the Chippewa Cree tribe who grew up on Rocky Boy’s Reservation in Montana. “At Yale, the Native community has been my beacon of support. I love my reservation and love being Indigenous.”