[Actualité de nos adhérents] Jérôme Laubner, Jennifer Ruimi et Sophie Vasset pour l’équipe « Humanités, Médecine, Santé XVIe-XVIIIe siècles » de l’Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’Âge Classique et les Lumières annoncent la dernière session de cette année de leur webinaire d’actualités dans le domaine des humanités en santé pour la première période moderne (Early Modern Health Humanities Webinar)

Studying the #humanities . Sometimes it just feels like, I am a very slow web crawler and very slow large language model.

New in our electronic #collection:

The Right Not to Use the #Internet

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003528401

#Harvard is offering free online courses in government, social sciences, humanities, and the arts:
• U.S. constitutional democracy
• civic engagement
• political philosophy
• elections
• public policy
• the media environment
• and more

https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/government

#Harvard

As a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, I was already familiar with #EdX, Harvard's online education program & have taken many free EdX programs in the past but honestly I had forgotten about it until people here started posting links to their #Legal & #Constitutional study courses but EdX offers many other courses of interest to me, particularly in the #Arts & #Humanities.

You can check out the complete EdX catalog here:

https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog

Ethos and Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearance of the Subject in Algorithmic Legitimacy
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15489309

This paper explores how algorithmic systems simulate legitimacy without invoking human subjectivity.
Read it here → https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15489309

In our 2022–2023 funding cycle, the Open Access Book Fund supported 47 open access books!

We’re celebrating by highlighting them all—starting with:
Global Digital Data Governance
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388418

Overview of published open access books: https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/funding-deals-and-discounts/published-books-2022-2023

A leading European press with an international outlook - Across the #Humanities and #SocialSciences, Amsterdam University Press (AUP) publish academic monographs, edited collections, handbooks, reference works, textbooks, journals and conference proceedings: https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/AUP_Books

Und wieder ein #PeerReview, in dem unpassende Anforderungen gestellt werden. Warum muss man in den #Humanities *immer noch* durchdiskutieren, welche (konsistente) Form des #gendern man nutzt?

Meine Güte geht mir dieses Publikationsrumeiern mittlerweile auf den Senkel.

Sometimes understanding concrete power relations in a precise historical field is a nightmare.

Imagine a life where you have no job to go to, no colleagues, no affiliation with any organisation, nobody who cares if you get up in the morning or get dressed, nobody who notices whether you actually work or not. That's what my 31-year career as a solo #Humanities scholar has mostly been like when I was *not* unemployed. So I gotta say, I was uniquely prepared to be actually #unemployed.

#democracy #economy #christ #christian #christianity #humanrights #socialgospel #god #humanities @socialsciences @blackmastodon
@BLKNewsNow
@blackvoices @politics
#tiktok #trump #usa #tech #poverty #socialwork #health

No major news outlet has reported the story (what was that again about the need for strong journalism?), so I'll post it again: The Federation of State Humanities Councils and Oregon Humanities have filed a lawsuit against DOGE and the NEH to stop the termination of grants to the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils, including the one here in Maine. #Politics #DOGE #NEH #Humanities #Culture #Libraries #Museum #Maine #US #Journalism https://www.statehumanities.org/federation-of-state-humanities-councils-and-oregon-humanities-file-lawsuit-against-neh-and-doge/

In the #Humanities and the Social Sciences, there is a widespread belief that it is important to have an explicit theoretical stance. After over 30 years of publishing research in top academic venues without spelling out such a stance, I can report that this belief has no empirical foundation. Is erroneous. Is a matter of taste. Or simply wrong.

"My pessimism regarding what may come by 2035 arises from the recent and likely future developments of AI, machine learning, LLMs, and other (quasi-) autonomous systems. Such systems are fundamentally undermining the opportunities and affordances needed to acquire and practice valued human virtues.

“This will happen in two ways: first, patterns of deskilling, i.e., the loss of skills, capacities, and virtues essential to human flourishing and robust democratic societies, and then, second, patterns of no-skilling, the elimination of the opportunities and environments required for acquiring such skills and virtues in the first place."

https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/we-fall-in-love-with-the-technologies-of-our-enslavement-the-next-generation-may-be-one-of-no-skilling-in-regard-to-essential-human-virtue-ethics/

Gunnar Peterson presents his thesis on the agricultural property history of easternmost Östergötland AD 200-1600 after 33 years on the #PhD programme! Torun Zachrisson is an expert opponent.

Long stays on the PhD programme were common in the #Humanities before the 1998 Tham reform. I was there for 9 years.

The Supreme Court Ruling: A Response from the Centre for the Study of #Sexuality and #Culture
by The Faculty of #Humanities, Manchester May 13, 2025 https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/humanities-blog/2025/05/13/the-supreme-court-ruling-a-response-from-the-centre-for-the-study-of-sexuality-and-culture/