In a popular recent blog for the Harvard Business Review online, Tony Golsby-Smith emphasizes the importance of hiring innovative, creative workers with backgrounds in the humanities. As Golsby-Smith writes, many business leaders have trouble finding employees who can help them solve difficult, complex, and ambiguous problems: This is because our educational systems focus on teaching […]
Advocacy Statements & Campaigns
Actor Samuel West Speaks Out on Arts Funding Cuts
Actor Samuel West delivered a speech at the Trades Union Congress’s (TUC) March for the Alternative in London on March 26. West emphasized that the arts should be publicly funded and available to everyone: We believe, don’t we, that art is for everyone? That just as you shouldn’t be denied good healthcare because you’ve got […]
The Value of the Arts and Humanities in the 21st Century
On May 5th, the University of Sheffield will hold a debate on the value of the arts and humanities. Speakers will include professors, policy makers, consultants, and journalists from across the United Kingdom. The event is open to the general public; see the event page for more information.
ACLS Public Fellows
The ACLS has announced the inaugural competition of its Public Fellows program, which will place eight recent PhDs in staff positions in partnering government and non-profit agencies. The ACLS describes the purpose of the program as broadening conventional ideas about the Ph.D. career path: This program, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. […]
Symposium on the Future of the Humanities
The Symposium on the Future of the Humanities was held on Tuesday, March 29 at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, which co-sponsored the event with the Council of Independent Colleges. Presenters emphasized the value of a traditional humanities education that highlights human experience, illuminates ambiguity and complex thought, and […]
Times Higher Education: Work of infinite value
The Times Higher Education has short essay by Ann Mroz on Work of infinite value. Mroz makes the case that, “Science alone cannot get to the heart of what makes us human, which is why the humanities and social sciences matter so much”.
Posters to Defend the Arts and Humanities
At the Defend the Arts and Humanities site they have a link to a collection of Electronic Posters of people to use. Great idea!