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3.1 Respondents who mentioned socially relevant themes 48 3.2 Respondents pointing to the value of cross-fertilisation 50 3.3 Reactions to the term ‘findings’ 55 3.4 Answers to the question ‘Do the humanities advance
knowledge?’ 57 3.5 Answers to the question ‘Do the humanities produce
breakthroughs?’ 59 4.1 Digital humanities centres and individuals by
region, July 2013 66
5.1 Translational practices among respondents 89 5.2 Respondent views on universities and translational practices 90 8.1 European humanities-relevant national research priorities 168
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our funders: the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO Humanities). Without their support, this project would not have been possible.
We are also grateful to SHM Productions Ltd for their constant support in running the logistics of the project and conducting desk research, in particular Maurice Biriotti and Chris Paouros, as well as Maroussia Bednarkiewicz, Eliott Champault, Zuzana Figerova, Gabrielle Guillaume, Damian Low, Sofya Pattenden, Kate Peden, Steve Potts and Jon Turner.
We are indebted to several other individuals and organisations for their input and support: Alexander Etkind and the Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge; Jonathan Harle and the Association of Commonwealth Universities; Dele Layiwola, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Michael Levenson and Keicy Tolbert, Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia; Chun- chieh Huang and Kirill Ole Thompson, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University; the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study; the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia; Gwen Nally, University of Virginia; and Charles Travis, Trinity College Dublin.
In June 2014, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond organised the Herrenhausen Symposium on the Global Humanities. We are grateful to the organisers, particularly Wilhelm Krull and Göran Blomqvist, for inviting us to discuss some of our findings at this event.
In the run-up to publication, we have benefited greatly from the professionalism and expertise of Paula Kennedy and Paul Cary at Palgrave Macmillan.
Finally, we would like to thank all our interview respondents, who have been the backbone of this project.
