In a couple of weeks’ time I am happy to be hosting an event as part of Birkbeck Arts Week on the subject of ‘Ordinary Digital Humanities’, featuring a talk from Lesley Gourlay (UCL Institute of Education). The publicity blurb below has more than enough information, I suspect, for you to get the idea. The … Continue Reading
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Hobsbawn reflects on his career at Birkbeck
One point of pride for me being based at Birkbeck is that it was the home of renown Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawn for 65 years. Just one month before he passed away, he sat down with David Latchman, the Master of Birkbeck, to discuss the ways in which his research career intersected with the peculiarities … Continue Reading
CFP on ‘the university to come’
UPDATE: The editors of TOPIA have been in touch (how very thorough of them!) and noted a correction – the number for this special issue is TOPIA 28. Original post: TOPIA, the Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies has released a call for papers seeking to tackle recent debates on the future of the university, from … Continue Reading