4Humanities’s The Humanities Matter! infographic — with arguments and statistics for why the humanities matter — has been updated! It can be downloaded as a large, vertical PDF file or image file (or as production files to facilitate adapting it under its open license).
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New Guidebook on How Humanities & Arts Lead to Professions and Careers
[Now also in paperback] A new, open-access guide book has been published online by 4Humanities.org’s co-leader, Christine Henseler. Called Arts and Humanities: Don’t Leave College Without Them! (2022), the work takes the form of a “flipbook” giving a broad overview and specific examples of the humanities and arts, and the kinds of careers they lead […]
Winners of the 4Humanities Student Prize Contest
4Humanities is proud to announce the winners for its “Shout Out for the Humanities” student prize contest. Congratulations on the winners and to the honorable mentions. Thanks also to all the other students and teams who made submissions, many of which were inspiring, creative, eloquent, and moving. Over the coming weeks and months, 4Humanities will showcase and publicize the submissions of the contest winners, honorable mentions, and selected other submissions. See press release. (Go to full descriptions and links for Undergraduate winners | Graduate-student winners)
Undergraduate Winners & Honorable Mentions
- 1st Prize Winner: Undergraduate Team of The Gail Project — “Do You Have a Passport?” (essay)
- 2nd Prize Winner: CharLynne Cather — “A Letter to Future Generations” (epistolary essay)
- 3rd Prize Winner: Sarah Boyko — “Spoons for Our Soup” (essay)
- Honorable Mention: Amy Bareham — “Your Story and You: A Defense of Storytelling and Humanity” (essay)
- Honorable Mention: Amelia Poole — “Why I Study the Humanities, and Why Finding a Job Doesn’t Scare Me” (essay)
Graduate Student Winners & Honorable Mentions
- 1st Prize Winner: André Lynch — “Facts of Humanities” (video, music, and lyrics)
- 2nd Prize Winner: Floris Solleveld — “Was There Ever Not a Crisis in the Humanities?” (essay)
- 3rd Prize Winner: Jesper Skytte Sodemann — “Verbalized Humanities: Should I stay or Should I Go?” (essay)
- Honorable Mention: Whitney Laycock — “Chile the Country, Not the Food” (essay)
Donna Davenport and Katherine Walker / NY6 Think Tank, “A Duet from the Humanities: Music and Dance Voices”
With Donna dancing and Katherine making music, the following duet presents a bi-disciplinary reflection on the complexity of the performing arts in higher education and their connection to the Humanities as a way of thinking, studying, and experiencing the world. But first we take a peek backstage. STAGE PREP As if art were ice cream, […]
NY6Think Tank Leaders to Meet on Friday, Oct. 17th, 2014
The NY6Think Tank Leaders—Katherine Walker (Hobart and William Smith), Michael Arnush and Janet Sorensen (Skidmore), Georgia Frank (Colgate), Mary Jane Smith (St. Lawrence), Brent Plate and Barbara Gold (Hamilton) and Christine Henseler (Union)–will be gathering for a 3-hour meeting on Friday, October 17th, at the beautiful, Union College owned Adirondack Center. Their goal is to […]
Reshaping Public Conversations on the Arts & Humanities ~ NY6 Summer Think Tank
On July 18th and the morning of the 19th, 2014, 4Humanities@NY6 is hosting a Summer Fun Think Tank titled “Reshaping Public Conversations on the Arts & Humanities” in Ithaca, NY. The goal of the event is to reshape—rethink and rewrite—public conversations on the state of the arts and humanities in a relaxing and participatory […]
4Humanities Infographic in the Wild
This is a compilation of tweets from people who posted photos of the 4Humanities Infograpraphic in the wild. [View the story “4Humanities Infographic Photos” on Storify]