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heyiya's entry on UK higher education and class politics made for interesting (though sad) morning reading.

For those looking for postdocs...

Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Postdoctoral/ MFA Fellowships:  Being Humans; 2011-12

For artists and humanists, these are extraordinary times: our sense of
“the human” is undergoing remarkable transformations, with
implications for the future of all life on the planet.  How should we
understand our relation to animal cognition, to artificial intelligence,
to the biosphere, to disability, to genetics?  Can we imagine a form of
humanism in which the boundaries of the human are unstable?

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