Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 450.
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        Date: 2025-04-08 07:38:07+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 38.441: Humanist as a research instrument

hi Willard,
i read in your message is an implicit response to the tendency which
sees the mailing lists as pinboards to announce conferences workshops
and the like. a tendency which appears all around.
useful and interesting things these announcement, who would deny it? -
but the mailing list are (should be? would be?) in essence discussion lists.
among those which i subscribed i know only one discussion list really
full of discussions: that of the Nexa Center based in Politecnico of
Turin (Italy); and also, partially, that of AIB - Associazione Italiana
Biblioteche.
Maurizio

Il 06/04/25 10:44, Humanist ha scritto:
>                Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 441.
>          Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
>                        Hosted by DH-Cologne
>                         www.dhhumanist.org
>                  Submit to:humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
>          Date: 2025-04-06 08:38:38+00:00
>          From: Willard McCarty<willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
>          Subject: Humanist as a research instrument
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> As those who have lingered here for years will know, from time to time I
> observe that Humanist makes a very useful instrument for research. This
> is of course obvious when you're looking for something you cannot find.
> It's less so for the perplexities and wild notions which cluster around
> development of an idea into a paper or essay or lecture. I fear that the
> perceived need for bullet-proof arguments keeps many from putting those
> perplexities and wild ideas into words and posting them here. Where they
> belong.
>
> One of my deepest debts is to a senior colleague who taught me by
> example that daring to say what you can about something, and so getting
> others to respond, and so keeping our pot stirred and one's own mind
> from congealing, can be not just a very good thing to do but what this
> sort of work is all about. A paper or book ms to be published is another
> matter, demands more restraint, but this here is a 'serious playground',
> a safe space in which to venture ideas.
>
> Or so I trust will be even more the case during Humanist's next 40
> (almost) years.
>
> All best,
> Willard
> --
> Willard McCarty,
> Professor emeritus, King's College London;
> Editor, Humanist
> www.mccarty.org.uk

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lo straniero non parla e non capisce la nostra lingua,
che non è più nostra, perché la nostra vera lingua
diventa la traduzione, lo scambio
luca ferrieri, dalla public library all’open library

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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli


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