The National Humanities Alliance in the U.S. has opened registration for its 2011 Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., March 7-8, 2011. Scholars, higher education and association leaders, and policy makers will convene for an annual conversation on the state of the humanities and to make their voices heard on the Hill. Plan to attend […]
Advocacy Statements & Campaigns
Cornell University President Calls for Campaign for the Humanities
In his State of the University Address at Cornell University on October 29, 2010, and in later interviews, David Skorton, President of Cornell, has made a bold call for advocacy for the humanities at his university and nationwide in the U.S. It is “time for Cornell to step up and advocate for arts and humanities […]
Scientist and Vice-Chancellor: “Man Shall Not Live By Bread Alone”
Keith Burnett, formerly Head of the Division of Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the University of Oxford and now Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, writes on his blog on November 15, 2010: “Man shall not live by bread alone.” It is true for our lives, and it is true for our University. When […]
A Scientist Advocates the Humanities
Gregory A. Petsko, Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Brandeis University, published in Genome Biology on November 10, 2010, an open letter to the President of the State University of New York at Albany, on the occasion of that university’s decision in October 2010 to eliminate its departments of French, Italian, Classics, Russian and Theater […]
PhDComics
From Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher & Deeper: A Grad Student Comic Strip. (Used by permission.) See next PhDComics strip.
Chad Gaffield on People-Centred Innovation
Chad Gaffield, the President of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, gave a talk yesterday at the University of Alberta on how innovation involves people. This talk was part of a at a Festival of Ideas event celebrating Social Science and Humanities research that included a panel on “Does the Internet Lie?”. […]
Crisis of the Humanities II
Stanley Fish has two Opinionator columns on the “crisis of the humanities.” In Crisis of the Humanities II he argues that the position that some humanities departments are subsidizing STEM areas because we teach so many students cheaply only applies at the colleges that charge high tuition fees. He goes on to write about how […]