By Dana Solomon As part of my own research on the use of information visualization in the humanities, I have become interested in the past and present overlap of graphic design practice and literary studies. In considering these and other overlaps between the practice of reading and interpreting texts and the labor involved in designing […]
The Changing Humanities
Interdisciplinarity: Social/Behavioral Disciplines and the Humanities
By Thomas Scheff Abstract: Most disciplines and sub-disciplines consider their particular specialization to be valuable in itself and superior to other disciplines. But compared with the huge leaps in the physical sciences, social/behavioral disciplines and humanities have made little progress. Since many of the physical science advances were the result of the merging of disciplines, […]
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 […]
The Changing Humanities: UVA’s Praxis Program
In a recent op-ed as part of The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Digital Campus special issue, Bethany Nowviskie, director of Digital Research and Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, highlights UVA’s Praxis Program. The program, a competitively-awarded yearlong digital methods workshop and apprenticeship designed […]
Humanities and Public Life – A New Book Series
In a recent article for Inside Higher Ed, Teresa Mangum, associate professor of English and director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa, announced the launch of a new book series from the University of Iowa press: Humanities and Public Life. The series, edited by Mangum and Anne Valk, associate […]
The Humanities and the Corporate World: Dedicated Deep Thinkers
In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education (link to PDF), history professor Peter A. Coclanis – noting the importance of innovation to many businesses and the establishment in recent years of high-level positions like the CINO, or the chief innovation officer, in many businesses – argues for the creation of a new […]
Liberal Arts in Asia
A recent article published in The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the recent institution of liberal arts programs in some of the top universities in China and East Asia. The article is detailed and primarily focuses on China, covering issues ranging from how to marry the study of Eastern and Western cultures, the wide variety […]