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StuHum: Student Advocates for the Future of the Humanities

StuHum, or Student Advocates for the Future of the Humanities, is a new humanities advocacy group for students, by students. StuHum believes that the answer to the question of whether the humanities will have a place in the standard higher education curriculum of the 21st century lies in the hands of current students. StuHum’s mission is to ensure […]

What It Means to Invest in the Humanities

On January 27th, 2014, TORCH (the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) hosted an event titled “What It Means to Invest in the Humanities.” The discussion brought together leading scholars from the arts, sciences and beyond to consider the role of the humanities in addressing contemporary challenges. Introduced by Andrew Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of […]

The New Union: A new forum for supporting the arts & humanities

The New Union is a project designed to articulate, discuss, and defend the value of the arts and humanities in their creative and educative elements, by stressing the ways in which they seek to challenge, undermine, critique, satirise, deconstruct, and interrogate the established political order and dominant assumptions of value. Unlike academic journals, we provide […]

Humanities and the Public Good

Starting in 2014, TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) will host a special series of events bringing together leading scholars in the humanities and sciences, and influential figures beyond academia, to consider the role of the humanities in addressing contemporary challenges. The opening event, on 27th January, will be a presentation by Earl […]

Interview with Areti Damala

By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Eva Kekou: Can you give us some information about your background? Areti Damala: I started studying Classics, more specifically history, philosophy, Latin and Ancient Greek, before specializing in Material Culture, or more specifically, Archaeology and History of Art of the Mediterranean. I was lucky enough to follow courses both at […]

National Humanities Report Reinforces Stereotypes about the Humanities

By Lindsay Thomas Originally posted on Remaking the University: http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-heart-of-matter-humanities-do-more.html In June 2013, the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences released “The Heart of the Matter,” a report meant to “advance a dialogue on the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the future of our nation” and […]