Research workshop meeting on WhatEvery1Says project. At this important meeting, members of the RFG will work collaboratively to standardize a method of archiving and extracting text from the public discourse about the humanities collected in the WhatEvery1Says corpus (see notes). Working from a detailed set of protocols created by member Jeremy Douglass, the group will […]
Look Out: Fluidity on the Edge
By Eva Kekou Janet Bellotto is an artist from Toronto, who splits her time teaching as an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Creative at Zayed University, Dubai. Bellotto’s work has been shaped as waves of experience that are fluid and aqueous, edging between the tactile and the imagined. Her […]
First session of McGill For Humanities
This is a guest post by Jonathan Armoza. The first session of the McGill For Humanities Speakers happened on January 23rd at the Arts Council Room (Arts 160) in the Arts building. Professor Maggie Kilgour of the English department is leading these discussions. The format for the first three of four sessions is a set of speakers […]
“Global Humanities?” — 4Humanities Discussion Forum with Rens Bod (March 12, 2014)
How can we think comparatively about what the humanities mean in multiple areas of the world with educational and funding systems not necessarily commensurable with U.S.-style “liberal arts”? For example, how are the humanities and arts talked about elsewhere? How are their histories and traditions different? How are they positioned relative to other disciplines, institutions, […]
Steven Yao, “Meaning, Value, Ethics: Asking Questions about the Humanities”
« A Humanities, Plain & Simple Post » What “value” do the Humanities offer that is important, useful, or even distinctive? What skills or abilities are developed through humanistic thought in particular? And if there are skills or abilities distinctive to humanistic training, do we need those skills or abilities? Or, to put things a […]
4Hum@UCSB Meeting – “What Every1Says” Project (continued) (Feb. 18, 2014)
4Humanities@UCSB’s activities for Winter quarter 2014 start with a meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, 3:30-5:00 (South Hall 2509) focused on starting work on the 4Humanities@UCSB “WhatEvery1Says” text-harvesting and topic modeling project. The mission of the project is corpora-scale digital text analysis of public discourse about the humanities. We want to look for things we don’t […]
StuHum: Student Advocates for the Future of the Humanities
StuHum, or Student Advocates for the Future of the Humanities, is a new humanities advocacy group for students, by students. StuHum believes that the answer to the question of whether the humanities will have a place in the standard higher education curriculum of the 21st century lies in the hands of current students. StuHum’s mission is to ensure […]