BBC – Capital – Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190401-why-worthless-humanities-degrees-may-set-you-up-for-lifeReviewer 3
Today, a few people shared meanspirited (and unhelpful) manuscript reviews they have received. As I revisit my summer projects, I am so grateful for the kind, generous, and thoughtful feedback I have received this year from people like Sara Motta, @NitzanShoshan , and...CFP: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality – German Studies Association
October 3-6, 2019 – Portland, OR The Religious Cultures Network is pleased to announce the following call for papers for sessions at the GSA, Forty-Third Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Portland, OR, October 3-6, 2019. Religion, religious...Watch “Power of Stories — Muslims on the Web: Kubra Gumusay at TEDxOxbridge” on YouTube
Watch thisGraduate School Is Terrible for People’s Mental Health – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/graduate-school-terrible-peoples-mental-health/576769/
“And the major with the fewest underemployed graduates, according to the report, was “Foreign Languages…
"And the major with the fewest underemployed graduates, according to the report, was “Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics.”In other words, for every cliché of a barista or bartender with a liberal arts degree, there were ten with a degree in...
How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice
How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal AdviceA PhD student approached me after a writing workshop to recount his tale of woe. “I write these messy, incoherent first drafts,” he lamented. “They’re absolutely awful! Then I have to work on them …This was...Book
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.