Tag: humanities

  • SAMLA 86

    Time is running out to register at a discounted rate for this year’s SAMLA conference.  It takes place November 7-9, focuses on “Sustainability and the Humanities,” and features talks by Dr. Ursula K. Heise and Wendell Berry.  For more information on the conference, hotel information, panels, and schedule, visit this page.  I’m particularly interested in…

  • Science and the Humanities Have More in Common Than We Think

    Krista Tippett recently interviewed Brian Greene for her program On Being.  Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and has written lots of provocative stuff about our universe.  I’ve heard him interviewed before, but this conversation was particularly interesting because, at one point, they discuss the troubling disconnect between science and…