Martha C. Piper’s 2002 Killam Lecture, Building a Civil Society: A New Role for the Human Sciences (PDF) argues that support of humanities and social science research is needed for a civil society. This lecture received significant attention in Canada, in part because it was one of the documents the Social Science and Humanities Research […]
Edmonton Journal: Tuition hikes are regressive, unfair
The Edmonton Journal published an opinion piece by David Robinson titled, Tuition hikes are regressive, unfair (November 13th, 2010.) Robinson, who is associated with the Canadian Association of University Teachers, tackles the view that tuition fees have no effect on enrollment. He concludes with, What we do know in Canada is that tuition fee levels […]
Inside Higher Ed: Call to Defend the Humanities
According to Inside Higher Ed, Cornell’s president, David Skorton, plans to launch a campaign to promote the humanities. In making the case for enhancing funding for the NEH and NEA, Skorton argues that the humanities can foster civility, ethics, and global understanding.
Zotero Group: Sustaining Scholarship and Culture
A group led by Susan Brown is preparing a report on Sustaining Digital Scholarship for Sustainable Culture for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They have been gathering a bibliography on this subject on Zotero, Sustaining Scholarship and Culture.
Boston Globe: College leaders work to increase interest in humanities – The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe web site has a story about how “Colleges aim to revive the humanities.” The story by Tracy Jan (Nov. 8, 2010) talks about how universities like Cornell, Dartmouth and Harvard are promoting the humanities in response to cutbacks. If, because of cutbacks and lack of support from the federal government, literature and […]
Greg Crane: Rethinking the Humanities and advancing civilization in a violent world
Greg Crane has written a short essay “Rethinking the Humanities and advancing civilization in a violent world” on the The Stoa Consortium blog. In it he argues that the humanities can help us understand the differences between “cultures that drive economic and political systems” on which we depend. It is the humanities that can help […]
Checklist of Tasks and Volunteers
Date of Completion/Posting Volunteers Humanities, Plain & Simple Initiative Call for submissions on 4Humanities Site April L. Thomas Create solicitations list L. Thomas, C. Henseler Send out individual and group solicitations L. Thomas, C. Henseler Create Page for initiative with logo L. Thomas Put responses up on page L. Thomas Idea Bank The “Idea Bank” […]