Ageing is a common subject in arts and literature as it is a universal experience. The use of the humanities in medical education may have a positive effect on trainees' attitude to caring for seniors and on geriatrics as a career choice. This paper summarizes the role of humanities in medical education and provides some examples and thoughts on how humanities curriculum can be used in geriatri...

This paper argues that recent ethics research guidelines fit poorly onto the kinds of research undertaken in the humanities, where a research conversation often forms a distinctive method of investigation that has no scientific equivalent. The NH&MRC ethics guidelines pay little attention to the issues raised in humanities and social science research. Also, ethics committees are constituted pri...

Recent work in the digital humanities has moved away describing the digital humanities as a “big tent,” to quote William Pannapacker’s famous 2011 post. Taking inspiration instead from the multiple histories and temporalities of media archaeology, such research emphasizes the local contexts where technological and institutional history take place. Matthew Kirschenbaum’s identification of the di...

The thematic focus of this issue is to examine what happens where software and scholarship meet, with particular reference to digital work in the humanities. Despite the some seven decades of its existence, Digital Humanities continues to struggle with the implications, in the academic ecosystem, of its position between engineering and art. The parallel drawn here between software and engineeri...

introduction: t his study aimed to investigate the male and female students’ learning styles of classroom participation and these styles’ differences between humanities and science majors. methods: 1039 individuals were selected through the proportional stratified random sampling method among undergraduate and graduate students in humanities (n=421) and science (n=618) faculties of tehran unive...

Consider a rough intellectual map of humanities computing (Fig. 1). At the center of this map is a large ‘‘methodological commons’’ of computational techniques shared among the disciplines of the humanities and closely related social sciences, e.g., database design, text analysis, numerical analysis, imaging, music information retrieval, communications. Picture the disciplines ranged above the ...

When the Australian Academy of Humanities (AAH) was established in 1969, poet Judith Wright elected as a founding fellow. Scholar and fellow A. D. Hope saw her inclusion boding well for Academy’s purpose to foster promote humanities. Six years later, complained about lack opportunities creative practitioners claimed that she being excluded from life. While some fellows supported Wright, majorit...

At the core of this book are convictions derived from a combination of theoretical investigations into problems of knowledge production and experimental projects conceived under the general rubric of speculative computing. Speculative computing arose from a productive tension with work in what has come to be known as digital humanities. That field is constituted by work at the intersection of t...

Trading Consequences is an interdisciplinary research project between historians, computational linguists and visualization specialists. We use text mining and visualisations to explore the growth of the global commodity trade in the nineteenth century. Feedback from a group of environmental historians during a workshop provided essential information to adapt advanced text mining and visualisat...