Many humanities professors — particularly those bludgeoned into submission by service on crisis-in-the-humanities committees — have been insisting lately that we need to become more technological and careerist because the public no longer values what we offer. But the facts suggest otherwise; and the discrepancy is revealing. What humanities scholars need to do is break […]
Advocacy Statements & Campaigns
Conference Sketchbook: Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter
This image is from Lucy Lyons’ sketchbook of the recent “Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter” conference at University College London. Lyons, as the event’s Artist-In-Residence, has drawn a series of sketches of speakers and delegates from the event. The full sketchbook can be found on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucylyons/sets/72157631588021055/with/8008839023/.
Active Citizenship and the Humanities: The Victorian Model
By Marcella Sutcliffe A recently funded AHRC project, carried out at the University of Cambridge, has provided a historical perspective to the current debates on the role of the humanities in civil society (http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/research/research-projects/modern-british/active-citizenship ). It is in the mid-Victorian era that the belief in the civic value and moral power of the arts and humanities […]
Why Do the Humanities Matter? Answers from the 2002 St. Francis College Humanities Day
With permission from Professor Gregory F. Tague of St. Francis College, 4Humanties here republishes the keepsake brochure from the St. Francis College Humanities Day of February 7, 2002. The brochure is entitled, “Humanities in Action at St. Francis College: In the Spirit of Humanity: Why the Humanities Matter Today” [pdf],. It includes “reflections and observations” […]
Webinar on “The Global Crisis and Promise of Higher Ed” Co-sponsored by Kean U. and 4Humanities
The Kean University Faculty Seminar in partnership with 4Humanities will be running an online faculty and professional webinar series on “The Global Crisis and Promise of Higher Education” with eight video conference meetings September 2012 to May 2013. (See announcement flyer) Designed to be a think tank on changing directions in higher education, the webinar […]
Jerome J. McGann, “Memory Now”
« Italian translation of post » “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner In humanities research and education we speak of critics and scholars. Both, once upon a time, were understood to practice what was called philology, or in August Boeckh’s famous definition, Die Erkenntnis des Erkannten — “the knowledge of what […]
Call for “Humanities, Plain & Simple” Contributions
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 […]