Colloquy
The Future of the Public Humanities
Curator
Is the future of the humanities a public one? This Colloquy proposes that a truly public humanities must encourage critical attention to its own premises. Its ten contributions include reflections on the concept of public humanities, interviews with practitioners and critics, and accounts of public-oriented projects in action.
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Intervention
Educating the Silicon Citizen: Literature, Philosophy, and the Case for Slow Tech
By
Ana Ilievska
Presumably, it has never been a good time for the Humanities. Perhaps because it is simply in the nature of the discipline to find itself perpetually in crisis, lagging behind the times, dragging its leaden feet made out of indelible words, asking for more and more time in a civilization perpetually in a rush. It is constantly on the edge of a precipice, but we cannot deny that, while it is awkwardly balancing itself on the edge, it does enjoy magnificent views. After all, our field does not thrive on security, on solid facts, on controlled experiments with measurable outcomes.
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Intervention
The Utility of the Humanities in the 21st Century
By
Kathryn Hume
As machines creep ever further into work that requires thinking and judgment, human creativity, interpretation, emotions, and reasoning will become increasingly important. STEM may just lead to its own obsoleteness, and in doing so increases the value of professionals trained in the humanities.
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Graphic design by Sheena Lai; image by Andrew Brodhead.
Intervention
A History of the Humanities at Stanford (5 of 6)
By
Chiara Giovanni
Though many of us are frequently concerned with what we’re currently teaching and why, and though we might have strong opinions about what ought to be taught in the coming years, fewer of us have a comprehensive understanding of how the past century of institutional approaches to curriculum design has contributed to our present circumstances.
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Colloquy
Americans in Paris
Curator
There is perhaps something perverse in returning to Paris in a moment of transnational studies that has aimed to diminish the metropolitan center’s hold on critical attention. Yet the case of Americans in Paris in particular offers insight into the gravitational interactions between empires . . .
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