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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
By Editorial

Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/20/the-guardian-view-on-humanities-cuts-in-universities-academic-departments-are-more-than-cost-centres

#Highereducation #Universityfunding #Universities #Humanities #Education #Artsandhumanities #UniversityofNottingham #UniversityofExeter #Socialsciences #TheGuardian #Editorial

Democratic lawmaker allowed to attend Kennedy Center board meeting, judge rules https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/kennedy-center-board-meeting-democrat #DonaldTrump #ArtsAndHumanities #WashingtonDc #UsNews #LawUs #UsPolitics

Been writing about what’s happening to #universities for years:

https://manifold.umn.edu/read/the-uberfication-of-the-university/section/dfa328f4-ab07-439e-8625-bf74a7f30f85

But the process really seems to be picking up speed now:

https://gothamist.com/news/the-new-school-faces-identity-crisis-amid-planned-layoffs-reorganization

‘“They are trying to radically diminish the power and capacity of the #liberal arts divisions, both graduate and undergraduate,” said Rachel Sherman, sociology professor at The New School's Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. “It does seem to be designed to minimize the power of the divisions that have historically been more politically motivated.”’

‘History professor Jeremy Varon, who is president of The New School’s AAUP chapter, called the cuts “an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry and Social Justice".'

#highered #politics #humanities #ArtsandHumanities #arts #SocialJustice

A new £1.1M @ahrcpress-funded project sets African-led agendas for film heritage restitution!
Starting Jan 2026 at @KingsCollegeLon, UNREST will unite scholars, archivists & filmmakers to address urgent issues of African cultural heritage & reparatory justice.
KDL is excited to contribute to this groundbreaking work!
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/unhousing-restitution-african-audiovisual-heritage-between-displacement-and-return-unrest

#AfricanCinema #FilmHeritage #Restitution #DecolonisingArchives #DigitalHumanities #ArtsAndHumanities

Who do I know (ideally in the UK) who is working on making "open science" less about the science? Send me your heros in the open research in the arts and humanities please! 🎭 📖 🎨 ✨

#OpenResearch #OpenScience #ArtsAndHumanities #Academia

If you're interested in Greek studies and theatre this might be interesting for you!

#Greek #Theatre #Antigone #VIU #Colloquium #ArtsandHumanities
https://socialbc.ca/@mediastudiesVIU/115232032886258392

🧵 3/3
...the nakedly philistine anti-intellectualism of the ruling class in Trump's USA:

https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/07/the-end-of-the-humboldtian-ideal-at-indiana-university-bloomington.html

#USPolitics #HigherEducation #Indiana #Universities #ArtsAndHumanities #LiberalEducation

#DFG and Arts and Humanities Research Council (#AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (#UKRI), are delighted to inform about 16 UK-German research project collaborations in the #ArtsandHumanities. This year’s funded projects cover a wide range of topics and will contribute to #ResearchExcellence across the fields: This will bring the two funders’ Programme of Collaboration to a total of 110 awards. Learn more about the UK-German the projects: ➡️ https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2024/ifw-24-110

#AcademicJob & #ResearchFunding

Gerda Henkel Foundation: General Research Grants – Humanities Worldwide

"[...] with a particular focus on the following subject areas:

#Archaeology
#HistoryOfArt
#Historical #IslamicStudies
#History
#HistoryOfScience
#HistoryOfLaw
#Prehistory & #EarlyHistory

Deadline: 22/05/2024

https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/en/general-research-grants-projects?page_id=32

#ArtsandHumanities #Henkel #GerdaHenkelFoundation

#AcademicJob

#Fellowship in #Barcelona

"The Centre for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture and the Haas Library at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra are pleased to announce a call for applications for two individual fellowships, permitting the successful applicants to carry out original artistic and/or research projects at the Haas Library for a period of three months during 2024–2025"

Deadline:01/04/2024

https://www.upf.edu/web/cercca/fellowship

#ArtisticResearch #ArtsAndHumanities

CC @academicjobs

Colloquium Series Coming up at 10AM! "Spectacular Spectacle: A Brief Look at the History of Special Effects on Stage" Tune in live on Youtube!
https://youtube.com/live/GjEjcKN7MvM?feature=share

#Theatre #History #SpecialEffects #Presentation #VIU #Nanaimo #ArtsandHumanities

You work on a study for more than 6 months, finally publish the results and... they are lost in an ocean of other results. So, I'll try to use repetition to add sparkles n light the 🔥 of the findings of the analysis of Ukrainian papers in #ArtsandHumanities:

👉 https://bit.ly/3OXHDvb

🌱 The total number of papers is growing every year;
🌍 But Ukrainian scholars are poorly integrated into world science;
:thisisfinefire: It's important to publish in influential journals, not just pray on #Scopus

Live stream of the Arts and Humanities Colloquium on now featuring Christina Mansueti presenting a talk titled "Laughing Women: Unruly Women, Trainwrecks, and the Carnivalesque"

#GenderStudies #Presentation #VIU #Nanaimo #ArtsandHumanities
#WomenStudies #Fleabag
https://www.youtube.com/live/4c7FvNT5UoQ?si=ay_aOfeivENOtsVc

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/biden-lady-gaga-bruce-cohen-arts-humanities-committee-1234714782/ Biden Appoints Lady Gaga to Lead Arts and Humanities Committee

The committee is returning after a five-year hiatus, when the board disbanded during the Trump administration #ArtsandHumanities #LadyGaGa #BidenWhiteHouse #VoteBlueForJustice

Boosting the wonderful @victischler - brilliant advocate for #Arts and #Health, and #ArtsandHumanities approaches to #dementia #care.

Check out this blogpost about her #CultureBox project here: https://pandemicandbeyond.exeter.ac.uk/blog/news-from-the-culture-box/

And her podcast about the project here: https://anchor.fm/pandemicandbeyond/episodes/Pandemic-and-Beyond-Episode-5-Arts--public-health-and-wellbeing-in-care-homes---The-Culture-Box-project-with-Victoria-Tischler-and-Errol-Francis-e14o3n0/a-a6c5hbq

My #introductions -

Florian, reader in 21st Century Visual Culture/Autonomous Practices at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam.

Fields of interest/activity include

#artsandhumanities
#arts
#contemporaryart
#visualculture
#zines
#experimentalism
#photography
#filmmaking
#politics
#undercommons

I have a blog on #diaspora at
https://pod.thing.org/people/13a6057015b90136f896525400cd8561

Teacher who won $1m will use windfall to get artists into schools https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/26/1m-teaching-prize-winner-launches-uk-school-arts-charity #Artsandhumanities #Artsinschools #Education #Teaching #Schools #UKnews