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@ucdproposaldev.bsky.social

Attention @ucdlands.bsky.social humanities faculty interested in learning more about @nehgov.bsky.social - Here's an upcoming session you may be interested in!

@ucdavisresearch.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social #humanitiesresearch #researchdevelopment

National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have questions about the NEH Public Humanities Projects grant program?

Join NEH staff online for a live Q&A session about the Public Humanities Projects grant program on Tuesday, November 10 at 2pm ET. Register for the Q&A here: buff.ly/kbSMLda

Text image: Live Q&A session; Tuesday, November 10 at 2pm ET; Public Humanities Projects

November 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM

Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford

@lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk

Huge congratulations to Invisible East, who have been recognised as a Highly Commended Entry in the Oxford Open Research Prize ceremony 2026! 🥳
The prize rewards researchers who make their work transparent, accessible, and reusable through open research practices.

#History #HumanitiesResearch

October 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM

Readex

@readex.com

"...to promote and encourage art in photography..." (1898)

American Institute of the City of New York. Photographical Section. Catalogue of the American Institute photographic salon. American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922

#WorldPhotoDay #CaptureTheMoment #HumanitiesResearch

Two images: On upper left: 1899 American Institute Photographic Salon poster featuring a woman with flowing red hair holding a photo, styled in Art Nouveau design. On lower right: Text detailing the Salon's purpose to encourage photographic art, mentioning a delayed opening and closing dates in December.

Two photos. On left: Black and white photo of a woman wearing an elaborate beaded headdress and necklace, looking confidently upward. On right: An elderly man sits on a chair outside a rustic stone cottage, reading a newspaper in the fading light of evening.

August 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM

Readex

@readex.com

#OnThisDay in 1759, Mary Wollstonecraft—trailblazing writer and advocate for women’s rights—was born. Explore her legacy and writings in Early American Imprints: https://ow.ly/VHqQ50YQENr

#WomensHistory #CulturalStudies #HumanitiesResearch #PrimarySources #18thCentury

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft wearing a white dress with dark background. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman title page with ornamental lines and centered text design. Newspaper advertisement for Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

April 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM

Readex

@readex.com

New Readex video! Discovering Historical Text and Data Trends with Readex Text Explorer. ⏯️ youtu.be/TiVvEr6Lcfk

#History
#DigitalHumanities
#HumanitiesResearch

Discovering Historical Text and Data Trends with Readex Text Explorer

YouTube video by Readex

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April 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM

PESGB

@pesgb.bsky.social

#PESGB #EnglishStudies #DisciplinaryIdentities #EducationalPhilosophy #HumanitiesResearch #TeacherEducation #CriticalPedagogy #KnowledgeAndPower #JanDerry #JohnYandell #FurzeenAhmed #AcademicEvents #FutureOfEducation #UniversityOfBedfordshire #BALeverhulme #EducationMatters #PhilosophyOfEducation

April 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM

PESGB

@pesgb.bsky.social

@obelas.bsky.social #PESGB #EnglishStudies #PoliticalEducation #CurriculumPolitics #PhilosophyOfEducation #LiteraryPolitics #HumanitiesResearch #AcademicSeminar #FreeEvents #IanCushing #LesleyNelsonAddy #RachelRoberts #UniversityOfBedfordshire #BALeverhulme #EducationalPhilosophy

April 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM

PESGB

@pesgb.bsky.social

@obelas.bsky.social #EnglishStudies #PESGB #LiteraryTheory #PhilosophyOfEducation #HumanitiesResearch #EducationSeminar #AcademicEvents #CriticalThinking #EthicsInEducation #BedfordshireEvents #FreeSeminar #UniversityEvents #LiteratureAndPhilosophy #BALeverhulme #EnglishAcademia

April 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM

UCD Proposal Development Services

@ucdproposaldev.bsky.social

LOI is due tomorrow! @ucdavis.bsky.social

#humanities #humanitiesresearch #humanitiesfunding

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Humanities for All Project Grants - California Humanities

Supporting public humanities projects across the state.

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February 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Jessica Stevens-Taylor

@jessicas-t.bsky.social

#HumanitiesResearch #Queer #Neurodivergent #PleaseHelp #ErodicLitriture

Jessica Stevens-Taylor @jessicas-t.bsky.social · Nov 16

I’m going to ask a huge favour of you all. My sister is doing her doctorate and needs people to read her ergodic (no sequence) novelette and fill out a survey. It’s open to anyone over 18 and is fully approved by the uni ethics committee. Please help and please share this. Www.slippedseemings.com

Slipped Seemings

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November 16, 2024 at 8:26 PM

Pepperberry

@pepperberry-posts.bsky.social

#IslamicStudies #ReligiousStudies #IntellectualHistory
#CivilizationalTheory #IslamicThought #ComparativeReligion
#EthicsAndLeadership #TheologyAndEthics #IslamicScholarship #MuslimLeadership #ReligionAndModernity #IslamicHumanities #HumanitiesResearch #ReligionAndSociety #GlobalCivilization

March 16, 2026 at 4:47 AM

UTSA TBDH

@transborderdh.bsky.social

We are pleased to introduce Subadra Tagle, who joins as a TBDH graduate fellow in the Spanish Master’s program at UTSA.

#TransborderDH #DigitalHumanities #BorderlandsResearch #GraduateFellows #CommunitySpotlight #BorderlandsDH #DHCommunity #HumanitiesResearch

September 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM

Alan Richardson

@alanrichardson.bsky.social

I am spending hours cramming my research under headings a granting agency requires in its applications, all the while thinking that the more the work is crammed under these headings the less clear and interesting the project seems. #HumanitiesResearch

September 14, 2024 at 7:31 PM