🇰🇷🇯🇵🇩🇪 Am Montag hatten wir an der Professur für #DigitalHistory die Kolleg:innen Soo Hyun Mun (#HanyangUniversity , Südkorea), Naoko Morita (#SophiaUniversity , Japan) und Sung Un Gang (@tuberlin) zu Gast, um uns über den Wandel der historischen Fachkulturen in Südkorea, Japan, Deutschland und 🌎-weit auszutauschen. 🤓
Wir sprachen über den großen Benefit, den infrastrukturelle Großprojekte wie @4Memory erzeugen, über die Rolle des Communitybuildings für die Entwicklung und Anerkennung digitalhistorischer Forschung und natürlich darüber, wie wichtig und fruchtbar der internationale Austausch für das Feld ist! 🌍🤝🌏
Surprised no one has suggested Knowledge Commons https://hcommons.social as an instance that is a haven for scholarly people. Perhaps more in higher education, but K12 educators would be welcome and well taken care of with the good moderation. Formerly Humanities Commons, it has expanded into STEM education and other fields to be more inclusive. Based at Michigan State University, it has government grants and other support to sustain its services.
I also recommend Knowledge Commons for blogging or maintaining a free Website. I was just starting to discuss research repositories and criticizing Academia Edu at https://hcommons.social/@SteveMcCarty/112609326085901837 without having space to suggest open access alternatives like Knowledge Commons. Its repository welcomes teaching materials, syllabi, and all sorts of genres, to which I've been happy to contribute, at https://hcommons.social/@SteveMcCarty
“…what bothers me about this educational approach—the “problem” approach, the “STEAM” (STEM + arts) approach—is what it leaves out. It leaves out the humanities. It leaves out books. It leaves out literature and philosophy, history and art history and the history of religion. It leaves out any mode of inquiry—reflection, speculation, conversation with the past—that cannot be turned to immediate practical ends.”
Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities edited by et al., 2024
This book covers topics such as archaeology, cultural heritage, design, fashion, linguistics, music, philosophy, and translation. It has 20 chapters, contributed by 26 local and international scholars. Each chapter has its own theme and addresses issues of significant interest in the respective disciplines.
The Japan Times just interviewed me toward an article on bilingual education. Whenever I think my work is done in a field, requests come along and I find I have still more I've wanted to express.
I've been invited to give an informal presentation at Kōnan University in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture next month. It will be my 100th different presentation topic. Many people have appreciated my photos and explanations, so I will show and tell briefly about 20 "Kyōto Temples, Shrines, and Festivals."
OK, awkward open discussion time. Post-doc people in #humanities academia, how much do people tend to publish per year? I'm in a sort of post-PhD floating state at the moment, working half-time mostly on tech stuff for other people's projects that doesn't lead to papers, and I just don't feel I have good guide-rails for how much to pack in and poke myself to try and get written over the coming months.