Dear Friends of the Humanities, Please consider contributing to an exciting 4Humanities campaign called “Humanities, Plain and Simple,”. This is a comprehensive and targeted project that calls out to individuals and groups inside and outside of academia to write statements, create short videos or audio recordings, produce eloquent photographs or drawings as to why the […]
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What the Humanities Can Teach Us
In a recent post for the Choose Humanities blog and in light of the recent banking scandals in the UK, doctoral student Jonathan Lewis writes about the importance of a historically-inflected study of ethics today. Lewis’s post, entitled “Learning your lessons: what the Humanities could teach the bankers,” addresses not only the need for more […]
On Graduate Education in the Humanities, by a Graduate Student in the Humanities
By Lindsay Thomas Well, spring is here, and this year it appears it has brought with its many pleasures a virtual bonanza of discussion on the current state of graduate education, particularly in the humanities. Perusing the higher education news of late, one gets the sense that the state of graduate education has never been […]
The Changing Humanities: UVA’s Praxis Program
In a recent op-ed as part of The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Digital Campus special issue, Bethany Nowviskie, director of Digital Research and Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, highlights UVA’s Praxis Program. The program, a competitively-awarded yearlong digital methods workshop and apprenticeship designed […]
Humanities and Public Life – A New Book Series
In a recent article for Inside Higher Ed, Teresa Mangum, associate professor of English and director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa, announced the launch of a new book series from the University of Iowa press: Humanities and Public Life. The series, edited by Mangum and Anne Valk, associate […]
The Humanities and the Corporate World: Dedicated Deep Thinkers
In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education (link to PDF), history professor Peter A. Coclanis – noting the importance of innovation to many businesses and the establishment in recent years of high-level positions like the CINO, or the chief innovation officer, in many businesses – argues for the creation of a new […]
Why STEM is Not Enough
In a piece for The Washington Post, Cathy N. Davidson, Paula Barker Duffy, and Martha Wagner Weinberg – all council members of the National Council on the Humanities – argue for an emphasis on the benefits of a combined education in both STEM subjects and the arts and humanities. Citing many of the speakers at […]