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KCSB-FM Interview with Alan Liu on 4Humanities
KCSB-FM’s Associate News Director Kendra Lee spoke with Alan Liu, co-founder of 4Humanities.org, in August 2016 about the importance of the humanities and the 4Humanities initiative’s activities, mission, and recently completed Shout Out for the Humanities student contest. The six-minute interview was broadcast and put online.
Printable “The Humanities Matter!” Infographic
In 2013, the University College London (UCL) Centre for Digital Humanities–in collaboration with 4Humanities–created an award-winning The Humanities Matter! infographic with statistics and arguments for the humanities in high-impact visual form. Instead of worn out sayings and factually ungrounded criticisms, The Humanities Matter! draws on published statistics and a crowdsourced poll to give a shout out to the humanities in sections on “What the Humanities Do,” “But the Evidence Shows,” and “Culture is Important.”
…and then our pile of professionally printed banners ran out.
So we created a printable, 8.5×11 version of the banner due to popular request.
Scott Newstok urges class of 2020 to think like Shakespeare
Scott L. Newstok, in his recent article “How to Think Like Shakespeare” published in The Chronicle this week, addresses the class of 2020. The class of 2020, after all, is the first to graduate from high school and earn a degree that largely depends on testing without other alternatives.
Publications on the Humanities — A Reference List
4Humanities is starting a reference list of publications on the idea, history, role, or other dimensions of “the humanities” and such related concepts as “liberal arts.” Currently early in its evolution, the list will grow over time. (Go to the reference list)
Austin Yack, “The Humanities in the Eyes of Texas and Florida Politicians”
Earlier in 2016, UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara) Political Science major and English minor Austin Yack examined United States political discourse from 2009 to 2015 in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government and also the legislative branch of California (the state with the greatest population) to study how politicians talk about the humanities.
Now, soon after graduating , Austin has extended his study to the next two most populous states in the U. S.: Texas and Florida. In his new white paper, “The Humanities in the Eyes of Texas and Florida Politicians,” he studies the actions of the Texas and Florida state legislatures during 2009 to 2015 on the humanities.
One finding is that in these years politicians in Texas and Florida were more active in substantively boosting the humanities than their California peers, who primarily just issued symbolic “resolutions” recognizing the humanities.
Austin presents his results in his white paper and accompanying dataset.
Arts & Humanities: Don’t Leave School Without Them
Arts and Humanities: Don’t Leave School Without Them. This is not the advice most often heard among high school or college students. We all know not to leave school without a plan, a skill-set, a career path, but without the Arts and Humanities? Why not?