By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Eva Kekou: Can you give us some information about your background? Areti Damala: I started studying Classics, more specifically history, philosophy, Latin and Ancient Greek, before specializing in Material Culture, or more specifically, Archaeology and History of Art of the Mediterranean. I was lucky enough to follow courses both at […]
Interview with William Latham
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Eva Kekou: Hello William! What made you move into the world of computing? William Latham: It was largely due to having done work in a geometric Russian Constructivist Style, and to producing hand drawn animated films using 3-point perspective when I was 19 – 20 years of age. The sheer […]
National Humanities Report Reinforces Stereotypes about the Humanities
By Lindsay Thomas Originally posted on Remaking the University: http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-heart-of-matter-humanities-do-more.html In June 2013, the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences released “The Heart of the Matter,” a report meant to “advance a dialogue on the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the future of our nation” and […]
Interview with Alex May
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Alex May is a digital artist who utilises his extensive programming knowledge to create his own software for interactive digital artworks and video projection installations that explore our relationship with digital technologies and how human perception of reality can be altered and extended through code and light. He has performed […]
4Humanities@UCSB Meeting – Topic Modeling “WhatEvery1Says” (Nov. 21, 2013)
4Humanities@UCSB will hold its second meeting of the 2013-14 academic year on Thursday, November 21 (noon – 1:30, South Hall 2509). Following up on its previous meeting, which focused on the “Heart of the Matter” report produced by the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, this meeting will […]
“The Heart of the Matter” Topic-Modeled (A Preliminary Experiment)
The American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences issued its important “The Heart of the Matter” report to the U.S. Congress and the American public in June 2013. 4Humanities has been collecting such public statements about the humanities from around the world for analysis in its WhatEvery1Says corpus–statements that […]
“The Heart of the Matter” Visualized
“The Heart of the Matter” report by the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences was issued to the U.S. Congress and the public in June 2013. The following are various text-analysis visualizations of a plain-text version extracted (and lightly cleaned / prepared) from the original PDF document. (The […]