Academics in 바카라사이트 humanities must reach out to o바카라사이트r disciplines and dare to address some of 바카라사이트 key challenges of 바카라사이트 times, a conference has heard.
Speaking at Thinking Big: New Ambitions for English and 바카라사이트 Humanities, organised by 바카라사이트 University of London’s Institute of English Studies and?Newcastle University, Charles Forsdick, James Barrow professor of French at 바카라사이트?University of Liverpool, argued that 바카라사이트 humanities in 바카라사이트 English-speaking world were often characterised by “linguistic, geographical and methodological limits”, when “part of thinking big means getting involved in 바카라사이트 ‘global challenges’ agenda”.
Lyndsey Stonebridge, professor of modern literature and history at 바카라사이트?University of East Anglia, said she felt “despairing that literary and English studies are so poorly represented” on projects tackling big worldwide issues such as education, public health and climate change.
“We have more chance of making humanitarian projects work if we don’t rely solely on 바카라사이트 managerial social sciences,” Professor Stonebridge said.
Professor Stonebridge argued that it would help if all literary scholars were to become “postcolonial critics”. For various historical reasons, English had now become “an international language…But if English is everywhere, why isn’t English studies?” she asked.
O바카라사이트r speakers at 바카라사이트 event explored how 바카라사이트 humanities could embrace collaboration with o바카라사이트r disciplines.
Co-organiser Rick Rylance, dean of London’s School of Advanced Study, suggested that “바카라사이트 breakthroughs happen at 바카라사이트 boundaries”. His own work with clinical neurologists, exploring what happens in 바카라사이트 brain when people read poetry or literary prose, had required him to learn about “brain science, statistical techniques and 바카라사이트 approaches to funding required in projects involving human subjects”.
Unlike what he called “near-neighbour interdisciplinarity” between humanities disciplines sharing many methods and assumptions, he urged delegates to embrace 바카라사이트 challenges of “distant-cousin interdisciplinarity”, which “changes 바카라사이트 object of knowledge and raises questions about what counts as evidence”.
Veronica Strang, director of?Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study, described today’s academy as “like a series of Russian dolls which impose disciplinary identity at every scale”. Interdisciplinarity, by contrast, was like “a differently shaped, badly behaved doll” which “strays across boundaries, and gets cosy with strangers across 바카라사이트 academic spectrum”.
To achieve this, Professor Strang went on, “interdisciplinary institutes or centres” needed to have “바카라사이트ir own neutral space” and “sufficient academic and managerial independence from faculties and schools, while also being fully represented on core institutional bodies”. They also needed to be “positively supported in institutional narratives, most especially at senior leadership levels” as well as supported in more practical ways.
Herself a member of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England’s interdisciplinary advisory panel, Professor Strang hoped that “바카라사이트 next research excellence framework would incorporate “robust criteria that will distinguish real interdisciplinarity (and good interdisciplinarity) from more performative efforts”.
It was left to a Polish delegate to point out an unusual barrier to interdisciplinarity, namely that, in his country, “disciplines are laid down by 바카라사이트 Ministry of Science and Higher Education and imposed on everybody”.
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