Faces. Stories. People. What is the humanities if not the stories of people? The Humanities Matter Bus Tour and Webseries will serve to engage the public with this notion of humanities education. This summer, the teams behind the DHMakerBus and 4Humanities collective, together with Alex Gil from Columbia University, are planning an extraordinary experience. In […]
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4Humanities@UCSB Meeting – Topic Modeling “WhatEvery1Says” (Nov. 21, 2013)
4Humanities@UCSB will hold its second meeting of the 2013-14 academic year on Thursday, November 21 (noon – 1:30, South Hall 2509). Following up on its previous meeting, which focused on the “Heart of the Matter” report produced by the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, this meeting will […]
“The Heart of the Matter” Topic-Modeled (A Preliminary Experiment)
The American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences issued its important “The Heart of the Matter” report to the U.S. Congress and the American public in June 2013. 4Humanities has been collecting such public statements about the humanities from around the world for analysis in its WhatEvery1Says corpus–statements that […]
“The Heart of the Matter” Visualized
“The Heart of the Matter” report by the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences was issued to the U.S. Congress and the public in June 2013. The following are various text-analysis visualizations of a plain-text version extracted (and lightly cleaned / prepared) from the original PDF document. (The […]
4Humanities@UCSB Meeting (Nov. 7, 2013)
4Humanities@UCSB will hold its initial meeting of the 2013-14 academic year on Thursday, November 7th (noon – 1:30, South Hall 2509). Continuing and new participants in the group are invited to come discuss the important recent report titled “The Heart of the Matter” (summary [PDF]) (full report [PDF]) which the American Academy of Arts & […]
Stephen Ramsay, “Blindness”
This post originally appeared on Stephen Ramsay’s blog. It is reposted with permission on 4Humanities. A suspected Chinese organ trafficker gouged out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy to steal the corneas for the black market. The boy was playing outside his home in Shanxi province last week when a women kidnapped and drugged him. […]
Opinion Piece by Christine Henseler, “Painting By Numbers: The Humanities”
The great irony of the summer of 2013 is that it has been painting the humanities by numbers. With every article, and there have been many, the Humanities have been measured by diverse sets of data that motion to its decline, its rise, or its bubbling (see links to some relevant articles, reports, and posts […]