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Why Public Humanities?


Why Public Humanities?

This essay will look at some beginning points for public humanities; work through definitions; talk about the stakes for faculty and students.

Defining the Public Humanities

The mandate of UBC's Public Humanities Hub is to provide support for modes of doing humanities scholarship that are explicitly and deliberately ...

Public humanities - Wikipedia

Public humanities is often practiced within federal, state, nonprofit and community-based cultural organizations that engage people in conversations, facilitate ...

How public humanities programs break down barriers - JHU Hub

An emerging field, the public humanities is raising awareness about social justice issues and leading to meaningful collaborations between ...

The Public Futures of the Humanities

The public humanities stand the best chance of showing the distinctive contribution that the humanities can make to all fields of knowledge ...

The Hows and Whys of Public Humanities - Profession

This essay contributes to those aims in two parts—first with a story describing my unplanned start down a public humanities path, and second ...

Why Public Humanities? | Daedalus - MIT Press Direct

Calling for a public humanities that is collaborative, process-centered, and committed to racial and social justice, the essay considers the ...

Goals of the Publicly Engaged Humanities

Publicly engaged humanities projects aim to inform contemporary debates on issues ranging from mass incarceration to environmental change to race and identity.

Why Public Humanities? - Institute for Women Surfers

A “public” Humanities relocates the curriculum, including skill-sets related to critical thought, and moves them from universities into communities.

What is the point of what we do for the public? (Humanities ... - Reddit

It's a tired truism that academic work in these areas is read by almost no one outside of academia. And it's obvious to most of us that the "publish or perish" ...

Why the Humanities Need to Go Public, and the Ways in Which They ...

Embracing a public humanities stance means opening oneself up to bidirectional engagements between the university and the public. It means being ...

Public Humanities | Jeffrey R. Wilson - Harvard University

Public Humanities ... Public Humanities is a space for scholars, students, activists, journalists, policy-makers, professionals, practitioners, and non- ...

What Is Public Humanities?

Public humanities happens whenever humanities scholarship interacts with public life.Footnote The most basic form is interpretive thought and ...

Why Public Humanities?: Discussion with Susan Smulyan

Calling for a public humanities that is collaborative, process-centered, and committed to racial and social justice, Smulyan considers the ...

Reframing the Public Humanities: The Tensions, Challenges ...

A free and reliable multimedia resource that tells the inclusive story of Virginia for students, teachers, and communities.

A Typology of the Publicly Engaged Humanities

A first and well-established type of public engagement in the humanities in US higher education involves outreach: the sharing of university-created knowledge ...

What is Public Humanities? - Institute for Women Surfers

What is Public Humanities? The term “Public Humanities” is used by universities, and by federal, state, and community funding agencies, to characterize projects ...

New Dædalus Explores the Public Faces of the Humanities

New Dædalus Explores the Public Faces of the Humanities ... As university humanities departments close their doors and students increasingly turn ...

Public Humanities Initiative

The Kaplan Institute seeks to promote humanistic scholarship at Northwestern that intentionally and ethically engages, informs, learns from, and supports ...

What is Public Humanities?

Public Humanities is the work of moving humanistic knowledges among individuals and groups of people. Some of the most common varieties of ...