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@relcfp@mastodon.social
2024-11-18 17:11:12

[ September 4, 2025 - September 6, 2025] Conference or similar: The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 2025 Biennial Conference: Creativity and Creation philevents.org/event/show/1223

The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, 2025 Biennial Conference: Creativity and Creation
The BSPR’s Sixteenth Conference Creativity and Creation 4th – 6th September, 2025  Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford Keynote speakers: Clare Carlisle (King's College London) Jessica Frazier (Oxford) Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge) Michael Puett (Harvard) The 2025 conference theme encompasses both human creativity and divine creation, across the full range of religious and philosophical traditions, theistic or otherwise. Presentations may focus on either human creativity or divine …

@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-01-07 17:31:46

Today I learned the English word "access" has been a noun for centuries, but seems to have only become commonly used as a verb in the mid-20th century with the advent of computers.
#Access #Accessibility #English

EditorMark (@EditorMark@mstdn.social)
"Access" as a verb meaning to gain entry is widely accepted despite its short life (the Oxford English Dictionary’s earliest reference is 1953). Some still consider it jargony, but the alternatives can be clumsy. #words #usage #OED