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“Most people are discouraged from being creative”: Pat Collins on Henry Glassie: Field Work The globe-trotting work of American folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie is the focus of the new film from Irish documentary-maker Pat Collins. As Collins tells us, the results get at a larger truth about the human need for creativity. 16 April 2021 Henry Glassie: Field Work (2019) Since John Berger’s award-winning BBC series Ways of Seeing (1972), we’ve not often seen perceptive visual arts criticism on our screens. Now from Pat Collins, the Irish director of Silence (2012) an...

March 11th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Emily Leclerc Sylvester Musembi Musyoka, a Kenyan colleague and field crew leader, recording a large mammal fossil bone during a virtual field project to collect fossils in Kenyan excavation sites that were in danger of being damaged by severe weather. (Nzioki Mativo/Smithsonian) When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic one year ago, it brought much of the world to a halt. Countries closed their borders, international flights stopped and people worldwide were told to stay home as much as possible. But not even a gl...

Despite not being able to do fieldwork, PhD student Khatijah considers herself lucky that she can still do some research and writing at home during the MCO. Photo: chenspec/Pixabay Khatijah Rahmat, 36, has just entered the second year of her PhD in Geography studies, which would typically be the year dedicated to fieldwork. But with the current movement control order (MCO) that takes effect from Jan 13-26 in five states and three federal territories, traipsing around in the jungle to conduct ethnographic research is obviously out of the question. “I am anxious to begin fieldwork, but the lo...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Farmers who fear they are falling behind in farm technology might not be as behind as they think.

IGNOU application deadline for December term-end exams extended: Check details here IGNOU application deadline for December term-end exams extended: Check details here The IGNOU application deadline has been extended till December 31 for the December term-end exam. The exam will be held in February 2021. advertisement UPDATED: December 14, 2020 18:04 IST The IGNOU application deadline has been extended till December 31 for the December term-end exam. The exam will be held in February 2021. HIGHLIGHTS The IGNOU application form deadline has been extended till December 31. The application is fo...