By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine since 1993, for which he received an honorary mention from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2004. Hi Alessandro! Eva Kekou: Can you give us some info about your background, work and how you first got interested […]
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4Humanities MiniDoc #3: #toofew: THATCamp Feminisms Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
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4Humanities@CSUN is pleased to showcase the event #toofew: THATcamp Feminisms Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in its newest MiniDoc production. The film features Dr. Jacque Wernimont, an Assistant Professor of English at Scripps College, who describes the mission behind this event as educating and training users to transform Wikipedia into an encyclopedia that “represents people of color, women, and people with other gender or sex identities;” currently, she states, “the majority of editors are men between their twenties and thirties.” (Read more)
Why All Professions Should Care About the Humanities
In a recent piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kira Hamman, an instructor of mathematics at Penn State Mont Alto, emphasizes three reasons why scientists should care about attacks on the humanities. She argues first that scientists, because they aren’t under attack, can lend credibility to those disciplines under attack; second, that the sciences and […]
4Humanities@UCSB Spring Charrette: Friday, April 26, 2013, 12-5 pm, SH 2509
Following up on 4Humanities@UCSB’s previous meetings, when we started humanities advocacy projects and strategized humanities values and media strategies, we invite anyone interested in helping to a “charrette” (a roll-up-your sleeves workshop) on Friday, April 26th, noon-5pm (or any part of that time you can make it) in South Hall 2509. We’re pleased to say […]
Interview with Ana Carvalho
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Eva Kekou: Hello Ana! Ana Carvalho: Hello Eva, and thank you so much for your invitation. EK: Can you give us some information about your background? AC: A tendency to connection between several areas of creative knowledge comes into visibility when I consider what I do in general terms. […]
Advice Not to Go to Graduate School Obscures Real Issues
By now, the latest anti-(humanities)graduate school screed, “Thesis Hatement” by Rebecca Schuman, has made the rounds on Facebook and Twitter. The author warns us against going to grad school in the humanities, stating, “I now realize graduate school was a terrible idea because the full-time, tenure-track literature professorship is extinct. After four years of trying, I’ve […]
4Humanities MiniDoc #2: “Books for Africa”
4Humanities@CSUN is pleased to introduce graduate student Naomi Carrington in its second MiniDoc presentation. In this short video, Carrington’s passion for literacy, diversity, and charity are exhibited as she discusses her project Books for Africa. Part of the charitable offerings of the organization Better World Books, this project allows a participant to send books to an underprivileged place of their choosing completely free of cost. Carrington describes how a trip to Africa in 2009 provided the impetus for her desire to dedicate some of her time and effort while in graduate school to their cause. Thus, in fall 2012, she reached out to Better World Books and asked for the materials to gather and send books to Africa. Her project ultimately brought in over four hundred pounds of books that were shipped overseas in December. (Read more)