by admin | Dec 6, 2013 | Features
What is Big Data and what is the usefulness of Big Data in the Humanities? These are some of the questions asked by Professor Barry Smith in a blog post on ‘Big Data in the Humanities’ written following his attendance at the IEEE Big Data Conference in Silicon Valley...
by admin | Dec 5, 2013 | Events, The Human Mind Project
The Human Mind Project will launch on 12 December 2013 with a FREE public panel session entitled ‘What’s so special about the Human Mind?’. At the School of Advanced Study we are delighted that this important, international, and interdisciplinary project will be...
by admin | Dec 4, 2013 | Interviews
The Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) continues its commitment to facilitating, initiating and promoting dialogue and research for the modern languages community but now embraces a wider remit as a centre for national research under its new name. To...
by admin | Dec 3, 2013 | Interviews
Despite, or because of, current challenges facing the sector, the newly launched Institute of Modern Language Research (IMLR) is determined to emphasise the pivotal role of modern languages in humanities research. This is due to the obvious multilingualism,...
by admin | Dec 2, 2013 | Interviews, The Social Scholar
The next FREE public lunchtime seminar session of the Social Scholar will be taking place in two days’ time (Wednesday 4th December, 1pm-2pm). For full details check out our previous blog post here [link]. In anticipation of what should prove an interesting and...