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The Winter 2023 issue of Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR) has been released. CUR Members can visit the issue page to download the full issue or individual articles for personal use. Open to Read for all are two outstanding articles: - 'Quantitative Methods in the Assessment of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Inquiry' by David Lopatto - 'Undergraduate Research in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Helping Students Navigate Uncertainty and Build Community through a Structured Cohort-Based Program' by Brit Toven-Lindsey, et al. https://lnkd.in/e3Cqq_2E

I participated in a scientific conference on the 31th of May of 2024. The title of the seminar was "New challenges in the social sciences and humanities at the beginning of the 3rd millenium"

An easy way to motivate early-career researchers to submit their own digital humanities projects to gain valuable experience with the review and publishing process.

We are excited to share the news of the launch and publication of a new special series in History Education Research Journal about ‘History Education in Historical Perspective’. Edited by Dr Tyson Retz (University of Stavanger, Norway) and Prof Terry Haydn (University of East Anglia, UK), this open access special series brings together a collection of high-quality articles that explore different national contexts of theory and practice, the different intellectual traditions of educational thought that have made an impact across national borders and papers that consider what, in the history of history education, remains a potentially valuable source of new insight. The intent is to provide new historical insights on these topics and to characterise the implications of this research. Contributors of the papers in this series bring their histories to bear on discussion of the current and future directions of historical teaching and learning. Find out more, and read free: https://ow.ly/ATVN50UaJkq

The HSS field is growing from strength to strength👏🏾

Calls: The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies: Call for Papers and Panels: WCTS-5 – 2025 The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies (WCTS-5) will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, May 23-25, 2025. The general theme of the WCTS-5 is Taiwan in a Changing World: Past, Present, and Future, focusing on the relevance of Taiwan Studies to Humanities and Social Sciences. Thirty-one panels are planned for (in-person) paper presentations and we expect WCTS-5 to provide an intellectual platform for scholars around the world interested and/

The share of new humanities PhDs aiming for academic employment falls to the lowest level on record, just 68%. (Or maybe that should be "but still 68%.") https://bit.ly/4eVKEpH

I give you a quiz. Those of us in education policy space. Translate what this means for you. Seeking the ‘Just’ in Liminal Spaces: Rebordering Conception, Definition, and Praxis of Education in the Global South. If our own experts on Global South decides to be to be so incomprehensible even for education policy audience, imagine how much they are understandable to poor bureaucrats and practitioner who are implementers in places like Odisha, Bahawalpur and Jaishoor? The simple translation of this is that "that education policy research and practice should account for the reality of mothers, head teachers who deal with particularly challenging issues like disability, autism, conflicts etc. That they should not feel limited by their own disciplines' frameworks. So basically, Robert Chambers whose reality counts argument." Should there be a movement to simply what we say?

Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and technological forces that are driving universities towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. But as Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show, this crisis isn’t new—in fact, it’s as old as the humanities themselves. Today’s humanities scholars experience and react to basic pressures in ways that are strikingly similar to their nineteenth-century German counterparts. The humanities came into their own as scholars framed their work as a unique resource for resolving crises of meaning and value that threatened other cultural or social goods. The self-understanding of the modern humanities didn’t merely take shape in response to a perceived crisis; it also made crisis a core part of its project. Through this critical, historical perspective, Permanent Crisis can take scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities beyond the usual scolding, exhorting, and hand-wringing into clearer, more effective thinking about the fate of the humanities. Building on ideas from Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche to Helen Small and Danielle Allen, Reitter and Wellmon dig into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world. https://lnkd.in/eMyBBVcC