humanities

Naar een scherpere profilering van de Geesteswetenschappen

Column

Odile Heynders

23/04/2018

8 minutes to read

Digitalisering en globalisering vragen om multidisciplinariteit in de geesteswetenschappen, om openheid en een kritische houding, zo zegt Odile Heynders (Tilburg Universiteit).

The Celebrate Freedom Rally and the betrayal of arts leaders in the United States

Column

Kevin Doyle

06/03/2018

7 minutes to read

Kevin Doyle argues that if what little remains of a public funding system for the arts and culture in the US is to be preserved, then the arts leaders of the United States should awaken themselves.

Kennedy Center Coup d'état: Trump, The Celebrate Freedom Concert and the state of the arts

Working paper

Kevin Doyle

18/02/2018

Derision and ridicule have been key ingredients in the opposition to Donald Trump. If Americans can save the NEA and NEH, we need to evolve and employ different strategies, says Kevin Doyle, in this critical chronicle.

De Geest voorbij: geesteswetenschappelijke reflecties op gezondheidszorg

Academic paper

Jenny Slatman

27/11/2017

18 minutes to read

Zowel psychologisering als neurologisering gaan beide uit van een zeer mager begrip van lichamelijkheid. Jenny Slatman pleit voor een ruimere opvatting van lichamelijkheid die ook toegepast kan worden binnen medische praktijken.

Pretstudies in een pretcultuur: over spelletjes, kennis en samenleven

Column

Jan Blommaert

23/10/2017

4 minutes to read

Pretstudies afschaffen? Johan Huizinga zag er net het wezen van onze samenleving in.

Diggit Magazine wins Teaching Innovation Award 2017: Interview with Ico Maly

Article

The Editors

29/09/2017

2 minutes to read

Yesterday, during the Education Bazaar at Tilburg University, Ico Maly received the annual award for Best Teaching Innovation for his work on Diggit. We caught an overjoyed Maly and were able to ask him some questions.

Pleasure Studies? University as creative and thinking space

Column

Odile Heynders

13/09/2017

4 minutes to read

According to Pieter Duisenberg 'pleasure studies' should be something of the past. The future is in technical studies. But is job perspective the main argument for spending 4 years of your life at university? Odile Heynders does not agree.