Get on the Humanities Bus! The Kickstarter campaign to fund the Humanities Bus tour and Webseries began on February 4, 2014. Who: DHMakerBus (Kim Martin, Ryan Hunt, Beth Compton) and Alex Gil, together with the 4Humanities Collective. What: A KickStarter Campaign titled “The Humanities Matter”. The goal is to raise $15 000 (or more!) towards […]
Advocacy Statements & Campaigns
The New Union: A new forum for supporting the arts & humanities
The New Union is a project designed to articulate, discuss, and defend the value of the arts and humanities in their creative and educative elements, by stressing the ways in which they seek to challenge, undermine, critique, satirise, deconstruct, and interrogate the established political order and dominant assumptions of value. Unlike academic journals, we provide […]
Humanities and the Public Good
Starting in 2014, TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) will host a special series of events bringing together leading scholars in the humanities and sciences, and influential figures beyond academia, to consider the role of the humanities in addressing contemporary challenges. The opening event, on 27th January, will be a presentation by Earl […]
The Humanities Matter Bus Tour
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 […]
Advantage for Life | Language Research Centre
The Language Research Centre at the University of Calgary has posted a good example of an advocacy video on why people should learn a second language titled, Advantage for Life. The full video is 22 minutes long and you can order a DVD version of it. The video surveys the advantages to learning a second […]
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 […]
Add Your Name to “The Humanities Matter!” Mailing List
Last month, the University College London (UCL) Center for the Digital Humanities and 4Humanities released The Humanities Matter!, an infographic of statistics and arguments for the humanities (see the original post here, and download the PDF here). We now have about 100 extra print copies of the infographic, and we want to send them to you! For […]