tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86808244195719157922024-03-04T21:51:01.815-08:00Poul's blogBits and pieces - by Poul Holm, Professor of Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin, IrelandAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-21597567687631441752015-08-30T09:59:00.000-07:002015-08-30T09:59:40.594-07:00ERC Advanced Grant for marine environmental history<a href="https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/european-research-council-awards-2-5-million-to-trinity-environmental-historian/5753#.VeM1h7RQlU4" target="_blank">My new project on the Fish Revolution </a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-3277338675106754462015-07-29T21:22:00.000-07:002015-07-29T21:22:59.291-07:00Talking about Oceans Past<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJ0HFScjwM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJ0HFScjwM</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-61681512486039670562015-06-25T09:27:00.001-07:002015-06-25T09:27:27.136-07:00Sound bites on the Challenges of the Humanities in the 21st Century. ICS, Uni...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HRlWyZb-2uk?list=PLB339F886CB5309CC" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-44756731141629169432014-12-15T06:14:00.001-08:002014-12-15T06:14:44.737-08:00Humanities World Report 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Brussels, March, 7th</div>
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Dear Commissioner,</div>
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The European Association of Sociology (EAS), the European Confederation of</div>
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Association (EERA), the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and</div>
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the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres (ECHIC) have</div>
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welcomed your intention to improve the position of the Social Sciences and</div>
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Humanities (SSH), as you have stated on several occasions since the British</div>
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Academy meeting in November 2011.</div>
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Considering your clearly expressed political intent to support SSH, in line with the</div>
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European Parliament and the Member States, we wish to express our strong concern</div>
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research in SC6 has diminished dramatically. Extrapolated to the whole Horizon</div>
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2020 period, the core SSH program in SC6 will be funded up to the amount of</div>
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300 Million Euros. This is less than half of the FP7 budget for SSH (625 Million</div>
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Euros) and far removed from what has been claimed on many occasions prior to</div>
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this. It is now also evident that the main share of the SSH Challenge has been</div>
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allocated to other priorities: a third of the budget of SC6 has been given to DG</div>
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CNECT, which already gets more than 7 billion Euros under Priority 2 and from</div>
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other budgets elsewhere in various Societal Challenges, and a further third of</div>
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the budget is allocated to “innovation research”. Such budgetary decisions are in</div>
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complete contradiction to the proposals for the Specific Programme of H2020,</div>
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which allows for large research activity for SSH in SC6 in support of several key</div>
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policy areas developed in particular by DG EMPL, EAC, ECFIN, HOME, JUST,</div>
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DEVCO, BEPA, ENV and EEAS.</div>
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challenges, which was presented as an important complement to the specific</div>
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challenge, rarely pertains directly to research in SSH. Instead the calls have a</div>
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narrow utilitarian approach to SSH and fail to mobilise the breadth of relevant</div>
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SSH research for societal challenges. The selection of experts similarly fails to</div>
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draw the breath of relevant SSH expertise.</div>
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We hope that we are mistaken. We therefore ask for a meeting with you urgently in</div>
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order to get some clarification from you regarding the situation detailed above and</div>
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so that SSH core research in SC6 can be granted the key position that was agreed</div>
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upon by the European Parliament and the Council.</div>
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Yours sincerely,</div>
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Carmen Leccardi </div>
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President of ESA </div>
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Pablo Oñate</div>
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President of ECPSA</div>
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Lejf Moos </div>
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President of EERA </div>
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Noel B. Salazar </div>
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President of EASA</div>
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Poul Holm</div>
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President of ECHIC</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Answer to: </span>carmen.leccardi@unimib.it <span style="color: black;">, </span>pablo.onate@uc3m.es <span style="color: black;">, </span>moos@dpu.dk <span style="color: black;">,</span></div>
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This letter was Cc’ed to:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times;">- </span>Media in member states: La Repubblica, El Pais, Libération, Der Spiegel, The</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-76584211335932821522014-01-15T01:09:00.000-08:002014-01-15T01:09:34.057-08:00Poul Holm: Oceans Past and Future. Talk at the Sydney Environment Institute, Australia, 1 Nov 2014<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UxurnNtE55k" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-4422789891886552192013-11-11T07:28:00.004-08:002013-11-11T07:28:53.692-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"> </span><b>6 November 2013 </b></div>
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<b>“Towards Europe 2020: integrating the Social Sciences and Humanities” </b></div>
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<b>Dear Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn, </b></div>
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We were delighted to participate in the recent EU Presidency conference «Horizons for Social Sciences and Humanities» in Vilnius and we enthusiastically support the Vilnius Declaration. We were much encouraged by your strong words of support for mainstreaming Social Science and Humanities (SSH) research in Horizon 2020, and we took note of your pledge to see words turned into action. </div>
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<i>We understand that things will take time and we want to offer our co-operation in mobilizing the interest and commitment of SSH researchers for the research agenda of Horizon 2020. </i></div>
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We are, however, deeply concerned by the low profile given to the SSH in the first draft of the work programme for the first 25% of H2020 (2014-2015). We urge the European Commission not to gamble away the willingness of the SSH community to contribute to research into all Societal Challenges. </div>
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So far, we see that the Calls for research enssaged under the Social Challenge approach will have, despite all good intentions, an overriding focus on technology-based solutions, based on outdated linear innovation models and implemented in the traditional silo-like approach. </div>
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In order to overcome this deplorable impasse, and building on recommendations made by delegates to the Vilnius conference, we submit the following suggestion: </div>
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<i>The Commission should consider support for synthesis centres, </i>that will allow stakeholders and researchers from across all relevant areas to reflect on how Societal Challenge research can best integrate all necessary and innovative approaches, including a broader inclusion of SSH insights into the European agenda. </div>
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<i>We propose the environmental and educational fields as early candidate areas. </i></div>
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As you know, European Social Science and Humanities research is very competitive in the global market place of knowledge and ideas. Europe as a whole would benefit from tapping more decisively into these rich resources. Conversely, if Horizon 2020 should fail to properly integrate the broad areas of competence of SSH research, <i>substantial opportunity costs for the European Union are likely to occur</i>.</div>
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We are particularly concerned that Social Challenge 6 (SC6), which is intended to have a particular focus on generating new insights and evidence through SSH research, risks being skewed heavily towards ICT-related applications research and on structural investments unrelated to any specific resaerch needs. </div>
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It is important that future SC6 Calls are formulated in such a way that projects can draw on the best of relevant SSH research. This means being explicit about the allocation of funds for research, as opposed to funding currently foreseen for other activities. </div>
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In this context, it would be beneficial if approvals of the Work Programmes were limited to just 1-year-periods each : the Commission and the communities can then monitor the implementation of the programme and the successful embedding of SSH. </div>
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By the same token, we feel we need to reiterate the importance and urgent need for Advisory Groups to be appointed in an inclusive and transparent manner. </div>
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The undersigned members of the EASSH Core Group, leaders from some of the premier research institutes in the fields of SSH, are looking forward to exchanges aimed at making Horizon 2020 a success. </div>
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Best Regards, </div>
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<i>EASSH Core Group members and representatives </i></div>
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<b>Ms Angela Schindler-Daniels</b>, Programme Coordinator NET4SOCIETY, Project Management Agency, German Aerospace Center, Bonn </div>
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<b>Lejf Moos</b>, Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, and President, European Educational Research Association </div>
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<b>Milena Zic-Fuchs</b>, Professor at University of Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Chair of the Science Review Group for the Humanities (ESF), ALLEA Working Group Social Sciences and Humanities </div>
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<b>Poul Holm</b>, Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and Chair “European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres” (ECHIC) </div>
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<b>Sean Ryder</b>, Professor at NUI Galway, Ireland, and Chair, HERA Network Board (Humanities in the European Research Area) </div>
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<b>Thomas Risse</b>, Professor of International Relations, Free University Berlin, and Chair Scientific Committee for the Social Sciences, Science Europe </div>
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<b>Wolfgang Mackiewicz</b>, President, Conseil européen pour les langues / European Language Council (CEL/ELC) </div>
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<b>Dr Rüdiger Klein</b>, Founding Chair, European Alliance for the Social Sciences & Humanities (EASSH), kleinrudiger@gmail.com. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-91930365146702335012013-09-28T15:08:00.000-07:002013-09-28T15:08:51.508-07:00After Vilnius - Humanities in Horizon 2020It's a long way yet for the humanities in the EU Horizon 2020 programme. After the Lithuanian Presidency conference in September 2013 I was interviewed by Research Europe. The interview is <a href="http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_news&template=rr_2col&view=article&articleId=1338429" target="_blank">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-14374068536147272322013-09-22T05:56:00.001-07:002013-09-22T05:56:31.997-07:00ECHIC and HUMED on Horizon 2020<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US">Humanities institutes and centres play an
important role as focus points and facilitators of research and innovative
teaching, in particular with regard to emerging interdisciplinary fields.
Numbers have grown rapidly in recent years, and ECHIC and HUMED were both
founded in 2011. ECHIC has <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>40 members
and 11 affiliate members in 20 countries. HUMED counts ten member institutions
in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Together, we command an extensive
global network of connections with centres across Asia and the Pacific region
as well as in North and South America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We offer the following short joint response
to the Consultation, noting that the consultation seems to be primarily directed
at the individual level. We believe that research institutes and centres and
indeed their associations are likely to play an increasing role in the European
Research Area in the future and we look forward to future engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">European humanities is undergoing a radical
transformation which provides huge potential benefits to society. The
transformation is evident in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">methodologies</i>
(digital humanities) , resurgence of multi- and interdisciplinary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">approaches</i> in environmental, medical,
health, cognition and many other fields, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">application
</i>(use of historical data for public planning, narrative models for business,
arts technology for media, bioethics, etc.). In addition, classical fields of
humanities are ever more important as interpretative frameworks for
cross-cultural understanding in a globalizing world. These changes affect the
teaching curricula and the teaching methodologies in and beyond the humanities.
The impact of this transformation is sub-optimal because supporting structures
and scaling are problems: there is a lack of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">translational infrastructure</i> (as we know it in translational
medicine), and lack of appropriate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">incentives</i>
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<span lang="EN-US">European humanities commands global respect
and attracts tens of thousands of overseas students and scholars to Europe.
They return to their home countries trained in European thought and
knowledgeable of European values, which include the practice of democratic
criticism and free public debate. This <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soft
power</i> is of immense value to the European Union and to the practice of
European citizenship and it must be cherished, researched and taught to our own
best standards. It is particularly important to overcome methodological
nationalism and increase understanding and bridging of regional cultural divides
both within Europe and with neighbouring regions. In particular, humanities
institutes and centres play a crucial role in reducing the divides between
North and South, East and West, by bringing together scholars in dialogue and
collaboration. Given the critical state of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership,
HUMED is offering a unique network for reflections on diversity and coherence
of cultural, intellectual and social traditions and perspectives in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recognized that large and important numbers of humanities researchers have not
called on by FP7 work programmes. The failure to include humanities research
incurs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">huge opportunity costs for the
European Union</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The overarching
challenge to Grand Challenge research is to build radically inter- and
transdisciplinary research environments to deal with the complexity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of
contemporary problems. It is urgent therefore to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mobilize all relevant knowledge bases, as
knowledge growth is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>much larger by
adding another discipline than by adding more resources to a discipline which
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">That active humanities
researchers be members of all panels that provide scientific advice on the
design of work programmes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">That work programmes for all
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relevant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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proposals, when relevant, include an adequate and realistic budget for humanistic
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year <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">That a specific call be made
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">infrastructural support of humanities
consortia</i> to overcome national and disciplinary fragmentation and to
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<span lang="EN-US">Prof. Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University (ECHIC)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Prof. Eduardo Manzano Moreno,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (HUMED)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-20173487353439421992013-03-16T03:42:00.002-07:002013-03-16T03:42:15.780-07:00<h2>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Slave's Tale</span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://vimeo.com/48379045" target="_blank">Watch video</a></i></span></b><br />
<a href="http://tcd.academia.edu/PoulHolm/Talks" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>PDF of slides available here</i></span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">What happened to the men and women who were sold on the Dublin slave market in the early middle ages? Some were taken off to places as far away as Iceland, Scandinavia, Normandy and the Spanish Caliphate. A few of their voices have survived to be told.</span><br style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">Speaker: Poul Holm</span><br style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">Date: Tuesday, August 21st as part of a series of monthly lunchtime lectures during 2012 at the Wood Quay Venue by the Friends of Medieval Dublin and Dublin City Council.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-71895509571684681492012-12-28T04:13:00.002-08:002012-12-28T04:13:32.004-08:00The RITE model<br />
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<i><span lang="EN-IE">Human motivation is key to global environmental change. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">Therefore, the social, human, natural and technical sciences must work together to overcome the Two Cultures syndrome. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-IE">The complex problems which cut across disciplines require new epistemological frameworks and methodological practices that exceed any one discipline. </span></i></div>
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<i>Read the full paper in Environmental Science & Policy 2012: behind pay-wall at </i><span style="font-size: 7.5px;">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.010 </span><i>or access the free pre-publication paper: </i><a class="title_link" href="http://www.academia.edu/2334208/Collaboration_between_the_Natural_Social_and_Human_Sciences_in_Global_Change_Research" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaboration between the Natural, Social and Human Sciences in Global Change Research</a>.<i> </i></div>
<i><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">We propose a framework for funding excellence in interdisciplinary studies, named the Radically Inter- and Trans-disciplinary Environments (RITE) framework. RITE includes the need for a realignment of funding strategies to ensure that national and international research bodies and programmes road-map their respective strengths and identified areas for radical interdisciplinary research; then ensure that these areas can and are appropriately funded and staffed by talented individuals who want to apply their creative scientific talents to broader issues than their own field in the long term, rather than on limited scope (5 year and less) research projects. While our references are mostly to Europe, recommendations may be applicable elsewhere.</span></i><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-77064524266247974652012-09-21T05:04:00.000-07:002012-09-21T05:04:03.699-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Listen to radio interview on <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2012/06/21/3530207.htm" target="_blank">Australian ABC Classic FM</a><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-6199707626946103602012-07-07T09:24:00.000-07:002012-07-07T09:24:22.199-07:00Humanities findingsI gave this talk 27 April 2012 at the conference <i style="background-color: white;">Restating the Value of the Humanities in Contemporary Contexts </i><span style="background-color: white;">at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. </span><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the next 15 minutes I shall argue that
humanities research is vital to address the challenges of environmental and
climate change; and that we need to develop a model for translational
humanities.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
believe that the humanities produce findings like all other sciences. Findings
come in many forms. It is a humanities finding that children's reading
abilities are positively influenced by parents reading aloud to them. The
finding is a result of researchers comparing parents' practices and school children’s
linguistic abilities in several countries and combining statistical figures
with theories of learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There
is always an interpretation involved in a discovery, whether of a cultural
marker or a cell membrane. The archaeologist identifies changes in soil layer as
a Viking stronghold only when combining knowledge of building construction,
dating and typologies with theories about past societies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
is important to recognise that the humanities may produce findings because this
enables us not only to criticise the world but to help create a better one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some
colleagues argue that the role of the humanities is not to contribute to the
construction of the world, but rather that our role is to be a critical voice
against the established. They will leave it to natural and engineering sciences
to describe and construct the world, and will instead take the position as
critics: while the natural science's role is to lay brick upon brick of the scientific
building, it is the humanistic role to demolish the building. The postmodern
historian Ankersmit says squarely that the historian is not committed to the
truth, but solely to narrative power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It's
a radical position, which I reject. We cannot renounce the reference to reality
and truth without giving up our academic position. But I do recognize that
post-modern thinkers have played a positive role by demolishing positivist
innocence and naivety. Not only that, postmodernist thinking is paradoxically
perhaps one of the most important discoveries of the humanities of the late
twentieth century. It's a thinking that creates a whole new dialogue between
classic humanistic study objects on one side and constructing sciences such as
computer science and engineering on the other side. For computer and film
industries postmodernist thinking has proven extremely useful. Just think of
the games industry and architecture. The movie The Matrix in 1999 with its
combination of Baudrillard's philosophy and animation technology marks a
breakthrough, and the last ten years of rapid development of narrative style
and experience universes would be unthinkable without post-modern thought and its
influence on everyday thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the 21<sup>st</sup> century our thinking is characterized by design rather than
tradition, we are no longer so much preoccupied with how the world is, but with
how we can create something entirely new and unbound. The linguistic turn was therefore
one of the humanistic world's most important discoveries in the last
generation. The problem is that the humanities in the postmodernist
interpretation may turn entirely self-reflecting. When a researcher looks at
surroundings, the researcher looks really only at his own reflection. Research
may be a question only of how I choose to look at the world, how the world is
reflected in me, or how can I look deeper into myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead
of just being critical of this development of the humanities and harking back
to the positivist epistemology, we must recognize that there is no turning
back. We all acknowledged that we humans have no other tool than language to
comprehend the reality that is around us. The only thing we have as researchers
are sensations and perceptions, empirical data and models, whether we are
researching nanoparticle or dance. In this way both science and the humanities
have taken the linguistic turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So what about the humanities and
environmental change? The future of the planet is determined by our
actions, our behaviour as consumers and as citizens. All the individual
choices we make sum up to a behavioural aggregate, which is bad for the
planet and bad for ourselves. Global changes are known - we can
measure and discuss differences of degrees of warming, weather patterns and
water rise, but the big challenges are known. What we do not know is how
we may change direction. How can research help us survive as a
species? Enlightenment is not enough. It is extremely difficult for humans
to change behaviour, even though we know the negative consequences of
unchanged behaviour, just think of tobacco smoking, HIV, or CO2
load. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The challenge is without a doubt the
most complicated the human species has ever encountered in terms of human
cognition. We have successfully adapted as a species to environmental change in
the past when forces of nature were beyond our control. We have also
successfully survived the threat of nuclear warfare when we invented the means
of our own destruction. But will we be able to address the challenges of
repetitive behaviour when all our incentive structures go against such change?
Here is a vast agenda for the humanities as we are concerned with human
motivation, ideas, thought processes and human action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But
have the humanities ever changed anything? Yes, I would maintain that the
humanities have been central to articulating and determining long-term human
behaviour certainly since Socrates. Consider this one example of the role of
the humanities during the Cold War. The world of the 1950s and 1960s was dominated
by a belief in social engineering both in democratic and communist systems. Look
at this n-gram of the frequency of the concepts of </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">social planning’ versus ‘human
development’. The Cold War period was convinced of the possibilities of social
planning as a result of the cognitive breakthrough for the quantitative social
sciences such as sociology and economics. Still, it was beyond comparison a
humanities thought product that helped to define and defend the western world
during this time, the philosopher Karl Popper's 1945 study of the Open Society
and his uncompromising defence of democracy at a time when totalitarian thinking
was in sharp focus. Popper's philosophy had a take-up the extent of which we
can hardly fathom today because it so radically came to define Western thought
and behaviour during the Cold War. In a sense it is still with us today,
perhaps most clearly evidenced by the United Nations COP-17 on Climate Change
in Durban, South Africa, last year. The clash between the liberal thinking of
western countries and the perspective of the newly affluent BRIC countries was
evidence that we need a new kind of thinking, which I would call Anthropocene
Humanities, to overcome the differences and create a new consensus for living
with environmental change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anthropocene Humanities must help us
understand how and why we choose to act like we do. Research in
environmental history is obviously relevant in this regard, but many other
humanities disciplines can make important contributions. There is a need
for research on narratives and language, a need to rethink philosophical
and ethical questions about the commitment of living generations to future
generations, there is a need for studies of climate representations, etc. My
suggestion is not to make all humanities a servant of one particular agenda but
rather to encourage humanities researchers to grasp the real need for a better
understanding of the human in the age of the Anthropocene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An agenda for Anthropocene Humanities
must be to enhance and intensify work on how social and cultural directionality
could be articulated, democratically anchored, and implemented in the search
for new technologies, medical knowledge, economic paradigms, and forms of
social organization. The agenda must also embrace the fact that traditions
of Western thought are repeatedly confronted with their internal limits and
intellectual tipping points while non-Western traditions remain embedded and
constrained within national or cultural confines that do not offer
universalistic responses to environmental action. It is a big agenda, the
humanities are central to it, and we need to draw on all the diversity of the
human experience to meet the challenge. </span><span style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Humanities Centres and Institutes such
as An Foras Feasa and the Trinity Long Room Hub may contribute uniquely and
decisively. At the upcoming meeting of the world-wide Consortium of Humanities
Institutes and Centres in Canberra, a group of us will propose an agenda to
sponsor humanities think tanks to work on these questions. We shall also
propose to develop a website to communicate case studies, images, artwork, and
produce a text book for undergraduate teaching of environmental humanities,
sponsor events to highten awareness of Anthropocene questions amongst our
colleagues, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
challenge for us on the one hand is to defend disciplinary diversity, so we
avoid being one-dimensional in our concept of the human - biologists have been
good at defending biodiversity, we must be better to speak on behalf of the
diversity of human existence. On the other hand, we must become better at
articulating our findings, and we must bring our findings into play. We must
come up with answers on how we can bring heritage with us into the future, how
our research may benefit social cohesion, how can we share knowledge with
companies and institutions, and how it helps us live with the challenges of
climate and globalization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
would argue that it is time to develop an idea of a translational humanities.
Translational medicine is the term for the important transformation of health
research that occurred around 2000 by an emphasis on shortening the turnover
time and reduce transaction costs in the research value chain. There are delays
and obstacles at every level from laboratory to hospital bed, from biomedicine
and psychology to the patient. This is why translational medicine is about
ensuring that basic research and knowledge at each specialized level is
translated to the next, and about developing relationships from research labs to
hospitals, GPs and ultimately to the patients.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Such
a translation dimension is not typical in the humanities. We do not have the
financial overheads that can pay the transaction costs. As a humanities scholar
you must be both basic scientist and entrepreneur, translator and communicator,
activist and lobbyist. If you are not able to play all parts, it is unlikely
that your research will have impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Research
councils therefore need to think in ways of enhancing both the ability of the
humanities to research the Anthropocene and to translate our findings. We need
funding for basic research in human behaviour, management, motivation,
intention and desire. And we need funding to be able to put this knowledge at
stake in society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>I gave this talk at the Taiwan National University conference New Perspectives in East Asian Studies, 1 June 2012</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">May
I first say a warm thank you to the organisers of this important conference for
inviting me and thereby offering me the opportunity to learn how the humanities
are developing in East Asia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have the year 2060 in the title because
I want to talk about some of the challenges for the next generation of
humanists who we are training now and who will make their biggest impact on
society in 30 to 50 years time. It will be a world much different from the one
we know. Many of the changes we cannot predict but three main changes in
demography, climate, and information are inevitable. I would hold therefore that teaching and
research in the humanities today anywhere in the world needs to somehow reflect
these grand challenges of the 21st century. I am talking about demographic
change, environmental change, and the second scientific revolution, and I shall
be offering a distinctly European perspective in the hope of promoting a global
dialogue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Demographic
change<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me take as point of
departure how current undergraduates may experience change in the course of
their career. From a European perspective, demographic changes will see
Europe’s share of the global population change from being a fifth of the
world’s population in 1960 to about 7% by 2060. At the same time Europe’s
population will be rapidly aging. These changes present huge challenges to
European self-perception and innovation which will become an important part of
the humanities agenda. This is bad news for Europe's global influence
- it gets smaller. It is also good news because it
means that our congestion problems will be relatively small – we
may preserve the rural and urban qualities that will be under tremendous
pressure in many other regions of the world. Europeans will be old people. Wonderful as
long as the old ones take care of themselves, difficult when we
are poor and need help. With a declining population,
we need robots or immigrants to do the job. In universities and
the global world of learning, the legacy of European humanities will be
questioned for its relevance to a world which is 93% non-European. In sum then,
Europe may become smaller and older, protect some qualities of life that will
come under threat elsewhere, and Europe will be needing immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Talking to an East Asian
audience as I do today I would argue that European humanities needs to
globalise – we must embrace these predictions of the future in terms of the
questions we deal with and the training we provide for our undergraduates now
who will inherit the planet as the next generation of leaders, experts and
teachers. My sense is that we do not do a good job at present. These
predictions are known and yet they are not reflected in the way we teach
history, literature and philosophy or other humanities disciplines. There are
many reasons but one is certainly that European humanities is still in a cocoon
of European or Anglo-American thought. We need to step up the dialogue with
other continents dramatically. We do not need a few, we need to welcome
hundreds of scholars from Asia, Africa, Latin America to learn from and
exchange pathways of the humanities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Climate<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Climate next: Environmental change
will change the world we live in over the next few decades. While climate
change may be denied by sceptics today, there is no doubt that forces of
demographics and economics alone will put the planet under severe stress in
coming decades. We live in a time when we need to come to terms with perhaps
the biggest challenge of the humanities and indeed the human race ever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am talking therefore about the need
for a new Anthropocene Humanities: which steps up to the challenge that
the future of the planet is determined by ourselves, by our actions,
our behaviour as consumers and as citizens. All the individual choices we
make sum up to a behavioural aggregate, which is bad for the planet and thus
for ourselves. Global changes are known - we can measure and discuss
differences of degree, but the big challenges are known. What we do not
know is how we should be able to change direction. Enlightenment is not
enough. It is extremely difficult for humans to change behaviour, even
though we know the negative consequences of unchanged behavior, just think
of tobacco smoking, HIV, or CO2 load. How can research help us survive as a
species? Anthropocene humanities must therefore soon be a core part of a
humanities curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anthropocene Humanities must help us
understand how and why we choose and act like we do. Research in
environmental history is obviously relevant in this regard, but many other
humanities disciplines can make important contributions. There is a need
for research on narratives and languages, a need to rethink philosophical
and ethical questions about the living generations of commitment to future
generations, there is a need for studies of climate representations, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The agenda for Anthropocene
Humanities must investigate how we may enhance and intensify work on how
directionality could be articulated, democratically anchored, and
implemented in the search for new technologies, medical knowledge,
economic paradigms, and forms of social organization. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The agenda must also embrace the fact
that Western thought is repeatedly confronted with internal limits defined by
institutional and philosophical
constraints, while non-Western traditions remain embedded within national or
cultural confines that often do not offer universalistic responses to
environmental action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Common to us all, Eastern and Western
humanities, is that many of the problems we are confronted with are variants of
the Prisoners's Dilemma: we would all benefit from collaborating towards the
common good, but in an era of weak global politics, cultural distrust and
imbalanced communication the defector is likely to get away with cheating. We
know that the only solution to overcome the PD game problem is mutual trust. In
a world of a vast, distributed PD game, the good guys will limit emissions
etc, the poor guys will ask for acceptance that they pollute for a time, and
the bad guys will pay lip service and get away with not changing their ways
(and of course it is not always clear who are the good/bad/poor guys).
Anthropocene Humanities should help us understand how and why we choose and act
like we do. The humanities must play a key role in communication, translation
and trust-building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
constructive role of humanities<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">More
than just present an agenda for communication, I believe that the humanities
may contribute positively to the knowledge that will help us adapt to and
mitigate climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
believe that the humanities produce findings like all other sciences. Findings
come in many forms. It is a humanities finding that children's reading
abilities are positively influenced by parents reading aloud to them. The
finding is a result of researchers comparing parents' practices and school children’s
linguistic abilities in several countries and combining statistical figures
with theories of learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There
is always an interpretation involved in a discovery, whether of a cultural
marker or a cell membrane. The archaeologist identifies changes in soil layer as
a Viking stronghold only when combining knowledge of building construction,
dating and typologies with theories about past societies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
is important to recognise that the humanities may produce findings because this
enables us not only to criticise the world but to help create a better one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some
colleagues argue that the role of the humanities is not to contribute to the
construction of the world, but rather that our role is to be a critical voice
against the established. They will leave it to natural and engineering sciences
to describe and construct the world, and will instead take the position as
critics: while the natural science's role is to lay brick upon brick of the scientific
building, it is the humanistic role to demolish the building. The postmodern
historian Ankersmit says squarely that the historian is not committed to the
truth, but solely to narrative power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It's
a radical position, which I reject. We cannot renounce the reference to reality
and truth without giving up our academic position. But I do recognize that
post-modern thinkers have played a positive role by demolishing positivist
innocence and naivety. Not only that, postmodernist thinking is paradoxically
perhaps one of the most important discoveries of the humanities of the late
twentieth century. It's a thinking that creates a whole new dialogue between
classic humanistic study objects on one side and constructing sciences such as
computer science and engineering on the other side. For computer and film
industries postmodernist thinking has proven extremely useful. Just think of
the games industry and architecture. The movie The Matrix in 1999 with its
combination of Baudrillard's philosophy and animation technology marks a
breakthrough, and the last ten years of rapid development of narrative style
and experience universes would be unthinkable without post-modern thought and
its influence on everyday thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the 21<sup>st</sup> century our thinking is characterized by design rather than
tradition, we are no longer so much preoccupied with how the world is, but with
how we can create something entirely new and unbound. The linguistic turn was therefore
one of the humanistic world's most important discoveries in the last
generation. The problem is that the humanities in the postmodernist
interpretation may turn entirely self-reflecting. When a researcher looks at
surroundings, the researcher looks really only at his own reflection. Research
may be a question only of how I choose to look at the world, how the world is
reflected in me, or how can I look deeper into myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead
of just being critical of this development of the humanities and harking back
to the positivist epistemology, we must recognize that there is no turning
back. We all acknowledge that we humans have no other tool than language to
comprehend the reality that is around us. The only thing we have as researchers
are sensations and perceptions, empirical data and models, whether we are
researching nanoparticle or dance. In this way both science and the humanities
have taken the linguistic turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Can the
humanities change the world?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
we agree that research should inform action, and that humanities findings may
have a role to play, some sceptics may still ask: But have the humanities ever
changed anything? Yes, I would maintain that the humanities have been central
to articulating and determining long-term human behaviour certainly since
Socrates and Confucius. Consider this one example of the role of the humanities
during the Cold War. The world of the 1950s and 1960s was dominated by a belief
in social engineering both in democratic and communist systems. The Cold War
period was convinced of the possibilities of social planning as a result of the
cognitive breakthrough for the quantitative social sciences such as sociology
and economics. Still, it was beyond comparison a humanities thought product
that helped to define and defend the western world during this time, the
philosopher Karl Popper's 1945 study of the Open Society and his uncompromising
defence of democracy at a time when totalitarian thinking was in sharp focus.
Popper's philosophy had a take-up the extent of which we can hardly fathom
today because it so radically came to define Western thought and behaviour
during the Cold War. In a sense it is still with us today, perhaps most clearly
evidenced by the United Nations COP-17 on Climate Change in Durban, South
Africa, last year. The clash between the liberal thinking of western countries
and the perspective of the newly affluent BRIC countries was evidence that we
need a new kind of thinking, which I would call Anthropocene Humanities, to
overcome the differences and create a new consensus for living with
environmental change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My suggestion is not to make all
humanities a servant of one particular agenda but rather to encourage
humanities researchers to grasp the real need for a better understanding of the
human in the age of the Anthropocene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Second Scientific
Revolution<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From demographics and climate let me turn to the third big challenge to
the humanities, the way in which we do what we do, information and how we
handle it. The second scientific revolution caused by the internet is only now
working its way into how we practice the humanities. Digital humanities is
rapidly changing methods and indeed research questions, yet we are still
training most humanities graduates for an analogue world. Do we need a step
change in the humanities curriculum?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">IT
and especially the Internet has accelerated and fundamentally changed the way
in which cognition takes place and these changes will only accelerate. The
Canadian physicist Michael Nielsen argues in his book from last year <i>Reinventing Discovery</i> that the Internet
means that we are facing the second scientific revolution: ”We are living at
the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. The
internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence and how we
understand the world.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8680824419571915792#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nielsen
does not discuss the web's impact on the humanities, but its significance is,
in my opinion at least as large and perhaps in an epistemological sense, much
larger. Humanities are still overwhelmingly conceived and practiced as analogue
sciences and the full benefits of the digital revolution are still ahead of us.
It is only within the last few years that researchers have gained access to
millions of books and journals online, and archives holds oceans of human
knowledge which is still locked in paper format.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">IBM
tried in 1960 to reach a closer understanding of the humanities disciplines
contributions to human cognition, especially from the humanities affinity for
IBM's engineering world. Therefore, it suggested a ranking by how rigorous the
humanist discoveries could be said to be.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8680824419571915792#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
It was a ranking that reflected the needs of the computer industry to machine
code extremely precise information for limited resources of hard disks and band
width. Today the IT industry has happily overcome these restrictions to
accommodate large text masses. It offers vastly improved opportunities to
develop IT-based humanist technologies, and we are certainly only at the
threshold of a leap from analogue to digital research methods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead
of thinking in two cultures - technology and culture badly set up for each
other - we should consider that no culture today comes to us without being
digitally disseminated. The last twenty years of IT revolution is being felt everywhere
in Assyriology, numismatics, dramaturgy, literature and language studies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Humanities
research provides content in the form of texts, images, objects to an online
world that is ever more hungry for content. Therefore the first step in digital
humanities anywhere has been to translate this analogue world onto a digital
platform. We now have access to millions of books that no one can ever have
time to read or get an overview by reading from cover to cover. Therefore the
task is no longer just for the individual researcher to read as much as
possible and remember as much as possible using index cards, notes and dog
ears. Future humanities research is ex ante digital humanities, and the task is
to develop and master as many digital technologies and search strategies as
possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
digital revolution is already challenging the school system from the first to
last stages. Students are increasingly unable to read long, sustained texts,
and when they write, their products are often samples, pieced together by texts
from the Internet, instead of original expressions. We may regret this
development, but must also take it seriously. The question is how the school
system should look after the digital revolution. Until now much of the teaching
and examination methods continues in an analogue tradition. The problem is that
when students' world is digital, there is a mismatch, which leads to declining
motivation and poorer outcomes. The current school generation in Europe is
perhaps the first of several generations who have worse formal results than the
previous one. There is an urgent need for humanities research into how we
adjust to a reality that has already occurred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
humanistic university programmes are also still predominantly in an analogue
world. We do not prepare the next generation of born-digital humanists, who
with naturalness exploit the digital opportunities. Instead, the humanistic
study is often a schism between young people's digital-social networks and the
analogue study chamber. It is no wonder if this schism is experienced by
students as anything but a preparation for the work that awaits after
graduation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Translational Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a world where natural resources are final, and where smart solutions are
about overcoming cultural barriers and improve access to digital resources, it
is essential that we think of the university in a new way. The university
operates today as a framework for a specialized knowledge sharing, with a
library and administration as the only common facilities. But the centrifugal
motion, the creation of ever more specialised disciplines, which was the engine
of the first scientific revolution, leaves little space for knowledge sharing.
During the second scientific revolution, there is a need for a reconfiguration
of science, including the humanities. There is a need to promote
radical-interdisciplinary collaboration across traditional faculties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Radical
interdisciplinarity that exceeds faculty boundaries is often praised but rarely
practised – and suffers from lack of support. There is little incitement from university
managers or politicians to break with traditional patterns and hence we are left
in the disciplinary siloes and thought patterns developed with the university
of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In sum, these grand
challenges to the humanities may be taken to indicate the need to rethink
humanities. I suggest that we may learn from the practice of translational
medicine to overcome difficulties of disciplinary boundaries and obstacles to
application of humanities insights, and that a way forward may be to support
what I would call translational humanities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Translational
medicine is the term for the important transformation of health research that
occurred around 2000 by an emphasis on shortening the turnover time and reduce
transaction costs in the research value chain. There are delays and obstacles
at every level from laboratory to hospital bed, from biomedicine and psychology
to the patient. This is why translational medicine is about ensuring that basic
research and knowledge at each specialized level is translated to the next, and
about developing relationships from research labs to hospitals, GPs and
ultimately to the patients.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Such
a translation dimension is not typical in the humanities. We do not have the
financial overheads that can pay the transaction costs. As a humanities scholar
you must be both basic scientist and entrepreneur, translator and communicator,
activist and lobbyist. If you are not able to play all parts, it is unlikely
that your research will have impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
challenge for us on the one hand is to defend disciplinary diversity, so we
avoid being one-dimensional in our concept of the human - biologists have been
good at defending biodiversity, we must be better to speak on behalf of the
diversity of human existence. On the other hand, we must become better at
articulating our findings, and we must bring our findings into play. We must
come up with answers on how we can bring heritage with us into the future, how
our research may benefit social cohesion, how can we share knowledge with
companies and institutions, and how it helps us live with the challenges of
climate and globalization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Universities
and research councils therefore need to think in ways of enhancing both the
ability of the humanities to research the Anthropocene and to translate our
findings. We need basic research in human behaviour, management, motivation,
intention and desire. And we need to be able to put this knowledge at stake in
society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IE">Internet resources<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">PISA InFocus 10, 2011/10 (November), OECD 2011<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/1/49012097.pdf [3. jan. 2012]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">Duke Translational Medicine Institute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">http://www.dukemedicine.org/Initiatives/ClinicalAndTranslationalScience
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I want to congratulate all of you students who have competed hard to win your studentships and can now look forward to four intense, laborious and wonderful years. Some of you have come from countries far away on the globe and you have only just registered in Galway, Maynooth, Cork or here at Trinity. Others of you have not had to move country but still maybe have had to move to a new city. I am sure you have all gone through a trying time to get yourself sorted in no time to get ready for your studies. Well done to you all.<br />When we sent out the call for applications in the spring there was tremendous interest. We received hundreds of applications, and you can all be proud to have been selected. We have had selection committees at all universities to pick the best, and for some of you the wait was long because the committees wanted to do a thorough job. I hope the short time between you knew of your success and today was enough to get you prepared for a learning experience which will be as rewarding as it will be demanding.<br />We selected you because of your excellent results in your previous studies and because you proposed interesting research projects. You are 45 in all, 18 at TCD, 9 in UCC, 12 in Galway and 6 in Maynooth. In short we selected you because we trust that you will all seize the opportunities and grow with the challenges. But we did not select you because you already know exactly what it takes to be an outstanding PhD candidate in digital arts or humanities. Some of you have limited experience of digital technologies, some of you have an excellent technological background but a limited experience of the arts or humanities. All of you will be challenged by the breadth and depth of interdisciplinary work. But in four years’ time you will be the first purpose-trained generation of digital scholars in the field of arts and humanities in Ireland and indeed some of the first in the world.<br />DAH is a unique programme not just in Ireland but in the world. It is the largest ever single undertaking to train a new generation of digital scholars in the arts and humanities. DAH has the potential to provide for the Irish and international labour market a wholly new group of people who are uniquely prepared to take on the big challenges and opportunities of making the analogue world of arts and humanities, of drama, film, music, literature, languages, history, religions and philosophy meet with the digital technologies. We all know of the enormous potential of making these worlds meet and I am sure Marie Wallace of IBM, one of our staunch supporters in the world of industry, will make that even clearer to us when she speaks in a little while. But before she does, let me just reveal a little bit about the background of how we came to be here today.<br />It is more than 2 ½ years ago that we began dreaming up a Structured PhD programme for Digital Arts and Humanities for Ireland. In addition to TCD, UCC, NUIG and NUIM, we are the RIA which provides backbone support, and two Ni Ireland partners, Queens and UU which will provide additional teaching and training opportunities. In the summer of 2009 we submitted a proposal for the Irish government’s Programme of Research in Third-Level Institutions, cycle V. The PRTLI grants have been crucial for Irish universities in the last ten years, they have provided much-needed core-funding to build Irish universities to the level of international quality which is needed for a knowledge society. The ambition and farsightedness of investments in the past ten years have changed Irish universities, first in the engineering and natural science domains but with the last couple of programmes, the arts and humanities have benefitted as well. The PRTLI IV cycle from 2007-2010 secured funding for research initiatives in all of our universities, and one striking expression of the level of ambition is the Trinity Long Room Hub which opened only last year. Some of you will be privileged to work here while others will enjoy the investments made elsewhere.<br />However, as you know, the financial turmoil, indeed disaster, of September 2008 changed everything in Ireland. In days, the state needed to bail out bankrupt financial institutions, and many of us feared that funding for the universities would not be sustained. Indeed we have suffered very serious cuts, and the worst is not over. By 2013 I understand that Trinity’s government funding will have been reduced by 40%. That is a serious challenge which is straining Irish universities and making many programmes go.<br />We feared of course that the next cycle of PRTLI would fall victim to the bad times but fortunately there is cross-party agreement that even in the worst of times there must be investment in research and education. The PRTLI funding is therefore continuing but with a strong focus on creation of the skills and innovations that will build jobs in the future.<br />When we put in pour application in July 2009, we were confident that the arts and humanities have a critical role to play also for the creation of future industries, welfare and jobs. But we were perhaps less confident that the government would share that vision. Some of us feared that the dramatic turn-around might bias all future funding towards the STEM fields, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Fortunately, we were wrong. After a long wait we learnt in the summer of 2010 that the international evaluation ranked our proposal top of all proposals for structured PhD programmes across all disciplines. Even better the government followed through on its promise to fund the best and awarded us the largest grant of all of 6.8 million euro. We had had even higher ambitions but still this was a fantastic result. And then came the traumatic autumn of last year, when Irish government bonds were reduced to junk status and finally the Irish state had to be bailed out by the ECB and EU. A hairshirt budget was introduced with promises of more pain to come. Once again we feared that we had won the competition but never see the funding.<br />Then came the wonderful news in February this year that despite all the misery the powers that be had agreed to let future investments in research go forward. It is only seven months since we got the go ahead for the funding, and the last few months have been very busy to get us all here today.<br />I told you of this background to give you a sense of the excitement, pride and fear that the partners behind the DAH consortium have shared. And also to let you know that there are people out there in the Irish society that look to us with great expectations and a sense that what is happening through the PRTLI investments may in the long run – not tomorrow but in some years’ time – prepare us for a smarter sounder economy.<br />I do not want to convey a simplistic sense of what the arts and humanities may contribute – you will not individually be weighed up against your potential contribution to the future economy. Far from it. But that is not to say that we should disregard the role of the arts and humanities for a better society, both in terms of economy and culture and welfare. Let me just give you one example, and I am sure you can all give me plenty. Every year half a million people visit Trinity to see the Book of Kells. This unique manuscript survived the dangers of fire by my ancestors the Vikings, and survived the dangers of seventeenth century civil war, to find a safe and tranquil home at Trinity thanks to one of the legends of modern humanity, Archbishop Ussher. It is thanks to people like Ussher that humanity will shine through even in the darkest nights and we cherish his memory at Trinity by having named the new library after him. The visitors to the Book of Kells will only get a glimpse of a couple of pages in a dimly-lit room fighting for space with other visitors. But now digitisation offers enormous new possibilities to let everyone have access to not only this but the many treasures of the trinity library. It is thanks to the Digital Resources and Information Section, which is housed in the bottom of this building, that Trinity now offers the general public access to this and many other valuable resources. Similarly the partner institutions are taking strides forward to provide access to Ireland’s rich heritage through digital arts and humanities. Such access is of tremendous importance to international culture and indeed to imagination and industry.<br />But digital humanities is much more than just enabling access to hidden treasures. More than a billion people have now access to the World Wide Web and their desire for content is insatiable. Access begets curiosity, and ever-increasing levels of education and a media industry hungry for images and stories mean that demand for the products of the arts and humanities have increased exponentially. We have support from industrial partners such as IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Google and Digital arts companies like Aers Electronica, Digital Art Centre, Digital Art Museum, Eyebeam, ZKM, and international partners such as Centre for Digital Humanities (UCL), Centre for History and New Media, CentreNet, DARIAH, Department of Digital Humanities (KCL), and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. We have strong interest from the national musems and galleries. Each of you of the DAH generation of digitally-trained scholars must seek your own way to best use and profit from the opportunities, not least with a view to your work placements in the third year.<br />At the heart of the arts and humanities is the desire to understand the world we live in, what motivates us as humans, and what are the consequences of our actions. It is a relentless curiosity and it takes us into the soul-searching and archive-mining, along paths that are long and winding, and sometimes without a single reference to anything that may be of value or importance to the modern world. But insight and perhaps truth does not come from accepting everything at face value, and basic research keeps asking questions till we come up with answers that for a time at least will satisfy our curiosity. We know that the best stories, the deepest insights often come from such serendipitous searches. Insight is golden, and we know when the ore has been struck. The DAH consortium exists to support that sometimes lonely search.<br />We also exist to help make sure that the world gets to know about the findings. Sometimes people in the arts and humanities, because of the many lonely hours spent in research, may believe that the world outside does not really care about their findings. That is an understandable but completely false perception. We all cherish a good story well told, and so much more when surprisingly it reveals something about ourselves. That is why we need to understand what made the Babylonians tick, we need to know how language may express and conceal our thoughts, that is why the construction industry invites philosophers to review their ethics, that is why the study of economic growth in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries won its historian a Nobel prize, that is why drawing humans in motion may win the artist-researcher an Oscar, and indeed that is why understanding religions may save the peace. In order to be an outstanding scholar of the Italian renaissance you need to study arcane belief-systems and languages but in the end we all become so much richer when the insights are shared. DAH exists to help share the insights, to open the university to the outside world, to facilitate the critical debate about past, present and future human choices. I wish you success, and as a professor trained in an analogue time I look forward to meeting each of you and learn from you of the digital future.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-43299256724630522522011-10-04T10:55:00.001-07:002011-10-04T11:23:04.341-07:00Winding back the ocean clock<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">A radio interview about how historians discover past oceans and how this can help us manage oceans in the future. <a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1446/" rel="noreferrer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1446/</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499687502737229972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680824419571915792.post-18049779254680435082011-10-04T09:57:00.000-07:002011-10-04T11:21:54.664-07:00Ignite – 5 minute talk about oceans past<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">It’s on YouTube<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRlY3c4Ur5s"> - five minutes on how we change the oceans by what we eat</a></span></div>
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