Thursday, 13th June 2019

Is Cognitive Science a “Successful Research Program”?

I think Nature needs to work on how it thinks about interdisciplinarity. A recent article (Rafael Núñez , Michael Allen, Richard Gao, Carson Miller Rigoli, Josephine Relaford-Doyle and Arturs Semenuks, “What Happened to Cognitive Science?”,… Continue reading…

Sunday, 11th November 2018

Collaboration

A Chronicle of Higher Education article on English departments, discussing among others Julie Thompson Klein and Jonathan Kramnick (and, btw, I’d love to sit in on a discussion between these two on interdisciplinarity). It… Continue reading…

Wednesday, 5th July 2017

The World is Complex – That’s Why We Need All of Us

From July 5, 2017

https://today.ucf.edu/world-complex-thats-need-us/

Humanities is just about reading old books and writing new ones, isn’t it? Not anymore – think digital.

People usually think of the humanities as stuck in the past,… Continue reading…

Friday, 2nd June 2017

CIRLA Conferences

From June 2, 2017

As I work on organizing the HASTAC conference (http://hastac2017.org/), I’m also cleaning out my closet. I found this wrinkly but otherwise brand-new T-shirt, from the… Continue reading…

Monday, 27th February 2017

Interdisciplinarity inside and outside the university

From Feb. 27, 2017

The Accidental Elitist

This is a cut above the usual articles I see on the question of academic jargon and the public. From an academic point of view, thinking… Continue reading…