The April workshop also featured academic Khalil Gebara who wondered rhetorically if there was a political will in Lebanon to fight corruption.
A version of the reader, featuring academic and curatorial texts on photomediations, will be published in a stand-alone book form later in 2015, in collaboration with Open Humanities Press.
Novels featuring academics who get themselves into scrapes are still being written.
This semester, it has sponsored seminars at Harvard featuring academics and authors to evangelize the wonders of poker.
The Daily Show is the only popular television program to regularly feature academics, authors and economists alongside a generous helping of celebrities.
The conference, organised to discuss the implications of the attack on the magazine and featuring academics, novelists, journalists and commentators, was due to take place at the Queen's University Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities in June.
The meetings which feature academics talking about their research can be extremely boring (that's how researchers are), but just by being there, you will get to meet key faculty and learn what's going on at the schools.
Since its beginnings in 2004, North Carolina's Moogfest has set itself from other electronic music festivals by not only offering an impeccably-curated lineup of artists, but keynote speeches and workshops featuring academics, futurists, political organizers, tech leaders, and more.
To the editor: The article on the relevance of John Muir's legacy featured academics who cast doubt on his advocacy for wild-land preservation and say a better way to serve the public would be to create more urban parks.
The variability in student enrolments on programmes, and features of academic life such as sabbaticals and research leave for permanent staff, mean that fixed-term opportunities to teach, generally for a year or a semester, are made available".
Professorial colleagues and rivals had denounced him: some features of academic life never change.Henry Kamen's meticulous and thought-provoking new book is an extensively re-written version of a work first published in 1965, incorporating the fruits of much new research (not the least of it by Benzion Netanyahu, the father of the present prime minister of Israel).
