Keeping up with numerous news items, blog posts, and tweets on the state of the humanities can be challenging, but fortunately several free tools help you to stay informed. In this post, we profile several approaches: Read relevant blogs and websites. Several blogs and web sites—including 4humanities, Defend the Arts and Humanities, National Campaign Against […]
SDH-SEMI Affiliation
The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / La Société pour l’Étude des Médias Interactifs (SDH/SEMI) has joined 4Humanities as an affiliated organization. SDH/SEMI is the premiere digital humanities academic society in Canada.
PhDComics (continued)
From Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher & Deeper: A Grad Student Comic Strip. (Used by permission.) See previous PhDComics strip
Valuing the Humanities Debate
London School of Economics Forum for European Philosophy Public Debate: “Valuing the Humanities” Date: Friday 17 December 2010 Time: 2.30-5pm Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House (London School of Economics) Chair: Mark Lawson Speakers: James Ladyman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and co-editor of the British Journal of the Philosophy of […]
Nussbaum: Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
The philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum has published a short book titled, Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities.. Princeton University Press has made the first chapter available as a PDF where she sets out the crisis, Radical changes are occurring in what democratic societies teach the young, and these changes have not been well […]
UNESCO: A New Humanism for the 21st Century
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has called for a A New Humanism for the 21st Century. This text calls for a humanism that sees the importance of communication, culture and community to building a better societies. She quotes Pico della Mirandola (Italian Renaissance Humanist) to the effect that we are shapers of our own […]
WordPress Blog Platform and Content Management System
WordPress is one of the most widespread software solutions today for individuals and organizations to publish on the Web, especially if interaction with the public or multiple-contributor participation is desired. It is well-suited to advocacy sites because it is adapted to the Web 2.0 era of collaborative authoring and user involvement; it is also […]