The 4Humanities What Everyone Says About the Humanities Research Project (#WhatEvery1Says) emerges from efforts of the local chapter of 4Humanities at UC Santa Barbara (4Humanities@UCSB) to identify public perceptions of the humanities, formulate the core value(s) of the humanities, and strategize ways to “frame” these values for effective communication (through framing narratives, metaphors, scenarios, paradigms). […]
Digital Humanities Newsletter from DHi at Hamilton College
Ever been curious about what actually happens as part of The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) @ Hamilton College? Want to hear what students have to say about it? The first video newsletter, written and produced entirely by DHi student interns and researchers, is finally done and uploaded to YouTube! The video link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBRfORuziag We […]
Susan Frost, “Thinking Through the Humanities”
« A Humanities, Plain & Simple Post » When my Humanities students tell me they are business majors, I advocate for adding The Humanities as a minor. Why would that be of any use to them, you may ask. Are these two disciplines not totally unrelated? Are they not at the opposite end of the […]
Interview with Alessandro Ludovico
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine since 1993, for which he received an honorary mention from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2004. Hi Alessandro! Eva Kekou: Can you give us some info about your background, work and how you first got interested […]
4Humanities MiniDoc #3: #toofew: THATCamp Feminisms Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
#toofew: THATCamp Feminisms West Wikipedia Edit-a-thaon from Kristin Cornelius on Vimeo
4Humanities@CSUN is pleased to showcase the event #toofew: THATcamp Feminisms Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in its newest MiniDoc production. The film features Dr. Jacque Wernimont, an Assistant Professor of English at Scripps College, who describes the mission behind this event as educating and training users to transform Wikipedia into an encyclopedia that “represents people of color, women, and people with other gender or sex identities;” currently, she states, “the majority of editors are men between their twenties and thirties.” (Read more)
Why All Professions Should Care About the Humanities
In a recent piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kira Hamman, an instructor of mathematics at Penn State Mont Alto, emphasizes three reasons why scientists should care about attacks on the humanities. She argues first that scientists, because they aren’t under attack, can lend credibility to those disciplines under attack; second, that the sciences and […]
Interview with Ana Carvalho
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Eva Kekou: Hello Ana! Ana Carvalho: Hello Eva, and thank you so much for your invitation. EK: Can you give us some information about your background? AC: A tendency to connection between several areas of creative knowledge comes into visibility when I consider what I do in general terms. […]