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The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us

Political Science Now

The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us By Geoff Dancy , University of Toronto and Christopher J. Fariss , University of Michigan Where is the human rights discourse most resonant? The answer to both questions, our research suggests, is “yes.” Read the full article.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. Separation of Disciplines.

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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.

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2025 Dissertation Workshop on Migration and Citizenship | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Political Science Now

The changing meanings and practices of citizenship, including the relationship between citizenship and identity, gender, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, racism and xenophobia, human rights, indigenous peoples, empires and imperialism, civic engagement, transnationality, welfare, and public policy.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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Apply Now for 2025 APSA Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Political Science Now

In this workshop, the co-leaders will support early career researchers in considering the utility and sharpening the application of mixed methods approaches to key political economy questions including, but not limited to, such topics as redistribution, democratization, economic policy, unionization, and social policy.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.