On January 27th, 2014, TORCH (the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) hosted an event titled “What It Means to Invest in the Humanities.” The discussion brought together leading scholars from the arts, sciences and beyond to consider the role of the humanities in addressing contemporary challenges. Introduced by Andrew Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of […]
Kickstarter Campaign for The Humanities Bus Tour Has Started
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 […]
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 […]
4Humanities@NY6 – Union College hosts “Defining and Framing the Humanities Today”
Union College to host “Defining and Framing the Humanities Today” public forum Union College will host a half-day public forum on the arts and humanities on Monday, Feb. 10. Titled “Defining and Framing the Humanities Today,” the forum is sponsored by 4humanities@NY6, an initiative of the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium. The forum kicks off […]
McGill for Humanities
From mcgillforhumanities.com: In times of economic crisis like the present, it is easy to attack the Humanities as irrelevant. Today, students are under pressure to take courses that lead directly to instant jobs. And yet Humanities classes are still packed. Why? What does that tell us about what students, and indeed society, need? Join us for a […]
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 […]