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4Humanities: Designing Digital Advocacy
DH 2013
Lindsay Thomas Alan Liu; Geoffrey Rockwell; Stéfan Sinclair; Melissa Terras; Jared Bielby; Victoria Smith; Mark Turcato; Christine Henseler
Slides for this presentation availableon Slideshare
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4Humanities Mission Statement
The digital humanities are increasingly integrated in the humanities at large. They catch the eye of administrators and funding agencies who otherwise dismiss the humanities as yesterday’s news. They connect across disciplines with science and engineering fields. They have the potential to use new technologies to help the humanities communicate with, and adapt to, contemporary society.
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4Humanities Local Chapters:
4Humanities@CSUN4Humanities@McGill4Humanities@NY64Humanities@UCL4Humanities@UCSB
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Surveying the Field: Arguments For and Against the Humanities (and some in between)
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Arguments Against the Humanities:(Taken from a report by Mark Turcato under supervision from Stéfan Sinclair, available here: http://circa.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/CIRCA:Arguments_AGAINST_the_Humanities)
“Half of freshly minted college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. And they’re saddled with a portion of the U.S.’s $1 trillion in student loan debt to pay record high tuitions. To fix this problem, the answer is simple enough: cut out the departments offering majors that make students unemployable.... for students, lenders, and parents it makes no sense to send a child to college to study humanities if they do not have a chance at getting a job that uses the skills they’ve developed.” - Peter Cohan, “To Boost Post-College Prospects, Cut Humanities Departments,” Forbes, May 29, 2012)
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“For some 40 years, literature professors have toyed with the humanities in principle and practice, and they have dismembered its prior achievements, sometimes brilliantly but usually shortsightedly. The game could continue as long as the money kept coming… The budget, though, has wounded it—fatally. The economics of the university have raised the stakes to actual survival, making provocative and radical positions look irresponsible.”- Mark Bauerlein, “Oh, the Humanities!” The Weekly Standard, May 11, 2011
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“Somewhere along the way, many people in the humanities lost faith in this uplifting mission. The humanities turned from an inward to an outward focus. They were less about the old notions of truth, beauty and goodness and more about political and social categories like race, class and gender. Liberal arts professors grew more moralistic when talking about politics but more tentative about private morality because they didn’t want to offend anybody.”- David Brooks, “The Humanist Vocation,” New York Times, June 20, 2013
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Arguments For the Humanities:(Taken from a report by Jared Bielby, available here: http://circa.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/CIRCA:Arguments_FOR_the_Humanities)
“The opposition of ‘liberal arts’ and ‘vocational education’ carries with it a lot of residual 19th-century class snobbery as well as 20th-century quantitative bias. In the real world of the 21st century, though, there aren’t ‘two cultures’ – the arts and the sciences. We need both.” - Cathy N. Davidson, “A New Curriculum for Real-World Success,” The Globe and Mail, Oct 13, 2012) @4Hum, [email protected], 4humanities.org
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Somewhere In Between“To the question ‘of what use are the humanities?’, the only honest answer is none whatsoever. And it is an answer that brings honor to its subject. Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that refuses to regard itself as instrumental to some larger good. The humanities are their own good. There is nothing more to say, and anything that is said … diminishes the object of its supposed praise.”- Stanley Fish, “Will the Humanities Save Us?” New York Times, January 6, 2008
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4Humanities Projects
AllOurIdeas PollHumanities, Plain & Simple#WhatEvery1One SaysHumanities Infographics
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Humanities, Plain & Simple: 4humanities.org
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#WhatEvery1Says: 4humanities.org/2013/04/what-everyone-says-about-the-humanities-research-project
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Humanities Infographics: 4humanities.org/category/for-the-public/humanities-infographics/
Flickr: flickr.com/photos/ucldh/9249399742/ UCL (print-ready):ucl.ac.uk//infostudies/melissa-terras/humanitiesmatter300.pdf
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Contact for new infographics project: Dana Solomon@[email protected]
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What You Can Do
• Help us gather data for #WhatEvery1Says Project:4humanities.org/category/whatevery1says/
• Write a “Humanities, Plain & Simple” piece: 4humanities.org/category/humanities-plain-and-simple/
• Suggest statistics and information for humanities infographics:4humanities.org/category/for-the-public/humanities-infographics/
• Help us analyze our corpus! Email us! Tweet us!
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