File Head Platon Glyptothek Munich 548.jpg thumb The philosopher Plato by Silanion The humanities are List ... . The humanities include Languages ancient and modern languages , literature , history , philosophy , religion , and visual arts visual and performing arts such as music and theatre . The humanities ... , communication studies , cultural studies , law and linguistics . Scholars working in the humanities ... , which some antihumanism antihumanist scholars in the humanities reject. Some secondary school s offer humanities classes, usually consisting of English language English literature , global studies, and art . Humanities fields Classics File Homeros Caetani Louvre Ma440 n2.jpg thumb Bust of Homer .... The study of the classics is considered one of the cornerstones of the humanities however, its popularity declined during the 20th century. Nevertheless, the influence of classical ideas in many humanities ... been considered a part of the humanities. In modern academia , history is occasionally classified ... science , the study of languages is still central to the humanities. A good deal of twentieth ... , also lies at the heart of the modern humanities curriculum. College level programs in a foreign ... 0 14 102463 9 ref The study of law crosses the boundaries between the social sciences and humanities ... science and discipline of the humanities. Laws are politic s, because politicians create them. Law is philosophy ... into many fields of the humanities, such as philosophy, literature, theology, psychology, music ... than with the humanities. ref This method of inquiry is largely indebted to the work of philosophers ... The word humanities is derived from the Renaissance Latin expression studia humanitatis , or study ... of the humanities In the West, the study of the humanities can be traced to ancient Greece, as the basis ... , geometry , astrology and astronomy astronomy and music the quadrivium . ref Levi, Albert W. The Humanities ... of medieval education, with the emphasis being on the humanities as skills or ways of doing. A major ... more details
Faculty of Humanities may refer to Faculty of Humanities University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb disambig ... more details
File Humanities College.png thumb logo used to show Humanities status Humanities Colleges were introduced in 2004 as part of the Specialist school Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom . The system enables Secondary education England, Wales and Northern Ireland secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, humanities . Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Humanities Colleges will receive extra funding from this joint private sector and government scheme. Humanities Colleges also act as a local point of reference for other schools and businesses in the area, with an emphasis on promoting humanities within the community. See also Category Humanities Colleges in England Humanities Colleges in England References http www.standards.dfes.gov.uk specialistschools what are arts Department for Education and Skills Category Humanities Colleges in England Category Specialist schools UK edu stub ... more details
The health humanities are the application of humanities disciplines arts , literature , languages , law ... sciences , and social sciences . While this applied capacity of the humanities is not itself a novel idea, the construct of the health humanities as a unified, meta discipline has only recently begun to emerge over the first decade of the 21st Century. In the health humanities, health and the promotion ... non positivist principles indigenous to the humanities, as opposed to the positivism of science . ref Squier, S. M. 2007 . Beyond nescience The intersectional insights of health humanities. Perspectives ... ref The health humanities do not serve to replace the health sciences, but rather offer ... humanities , ref cite web url http mh.bmj.com title Medical Humanities BMJ Journals publisher Mh.bmj.com date accessdate 2010 07 05 ref but transcend the scope and depth of the medical humanities, in the areas of humanities based conceptualizations of health, and applications of humanities for health promotion. The health humanities construct is distinct from complementary and alternative ... health sciences paradigm. The health humanities are a growing movement internationally. The website of the International Health Humanities Network can be found at http www.healthhumanities.org. ref http www.healthhumanities.org ref A conference on the health humanities was held October 13 15, 2006 ... 2009, Paul Crawford became the world s first Professor of Health Humanities at The University ... Ronald Carter created an international health humanities initiative that included the AHRC funded International Health Humanities Conference IHHC . The 1st IHH conference was held on August ... Humanities Conference Programme.pdf ref The conference opened with Professor Crawford s address entitled Health humanities Literature and Madness and included keynote lectures by Professor Kay Redfield ..., reported on health humanities in his weekly column for the Nursing Times. ref http www.nursingtimes.net ... more details
Multiple issues wikify March 2012 orphan June 2010 citation style May 2010 notability Companies date January 2012 Indiana Humanities is a non profit organization in Indianapolis, Indiana that encourages interest and involvement in history, literature, philosophy and other related disciplines, collectively known as the humanities. Indiana Humanities connects people, opens minds and enriches lives by creating and facilitating programs that encourage people to think, read and talk. It is one of 56 humanities councils in the United States and is affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities . References AU Receives Indiana Humanities Council Grant. Anderson University. 12 June 2008. Web. 10 May 2010. http www.anderson.edu w news 2008 au receives indiana humanities council grant Discussions Held on Indiana s Future. The Westside Flyer Indianapolis, IN 5 January 2010. Print. Humanities Council Announces Grant Recipients. Inside Indiana Business. Web. 5 April 2010. http www.insideindianabusiness.com newsitem.asp?ID 40969 middle Indiana Humanities Council http www.indianahumanities.org Indiana Humanities Council Funds Non Profit Humanities Projects up to 2,000. The Paper Wabash, IN . 27 January 2010. Print. Keira Amstutz 91 Helps Indiana Experience the Humanities. Depauw University. Web. 9 Apr. 2010. http www.depauw.edu news ?id 25270 Kelley, Erin, and Cassie Stockamp. Civic Dialogue Fosters Sense of Community. Indianapolis Star 10 January 2010. Print. Neal, Andrea. Indiana Must Plan Now for a Quality Bicentennial. Terre Haute Tribune Star Terre Haute, IN . 21 January 2010. Print. Nealy, Nila. Indiana Humanities Council and the Human Condition. The Human Condition. 14 September 2009. Web. 10 May 2010. http www.nilanealy.com 2009 09 indiana humanities council and human.html External links http www.indianahumanities.org Indiana Humanities Council http www.neh.gov National Endowment for the Humanities http www.statehumanities.org about.htm The Federation of State H ... more details
Public humanities is a term used to describe the work of federal, state, nonprofit and community based ..., popular culture and the arts. Public humanities programs engage everyone in reflecting on diverse heritage, traditions, and history, and their relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of life. Workers within the public humanities endeavor to create spaces where the public can engage in conversation, learning and reflection about issues and ideas. Public humanities projects include ..., public art, cultural heritage, and cultural policy. Practitioners of public humanities are invested in ensuring the accessibility and relevance of the humanities to the general public or community ... Humanities suggests that the nature of public humanities work is to teach the public the findings of academic scholarship it sees scholarship and the public humanities not as two distinct spheres ... programs in the public humanities, including Portland State University , whose http www.publichumanities.pdx.edu Portland Center for Public Humanities provides a yearlong forum of talks, roundtables ... public humanities programs, and whose http www.brown.edu Departments AmCiv humanities.html American Civilization Department offers a masters degree in public humanities. Brown s public humanities program emphasizes practice, balanced alongside theory. The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities ... http www.cal.msu.edu phc index.php?phc Public Humanities Collaborative provides a gathering place ... humanities about.html The Public Humanities Western is designed to enhance the Faculty of Arts and Humanities commitment to the promotion of innovative forms of publicly engaged knowledge creation ... http www.humanities.wisc.edu Center for the Humanities is the primary vehicle on the campus for interdisciplinary work in the humanities, has a public scholarship program, http www.humanities.wisc.edu programs hex home.html HEX Humanities Exposed that supports collaborative work between humanities ... more details
Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of medicine which includes the humanities literature , philosophy , ethics , history and religion , social science anthropology , cultural studies , psychology , sociology , and the arts literature , theater , film , and visual arts and their application to medical education and practice. ref cite web last Aull first Felice title Medical Humanities url http medhum.med.nyu.edu work Medical Humanities Community publisher New York University School of Medicine accessdate 25 May 2011 ref Medical humanities is also defined as an interdisciplinary,and increasingly international endeavor that draws on the creative and intellectual strengths of diverse disciplines,including literature, art, creative writing, drama, film,music, philosophy, ethical decision ... Kirklin first D title The Centre for Medical Humanities, Royal Free and University College Medical .... The humanities and arts provide insight into the human condition, suffering, personhood, our responsibility ... of film in medical education. References reflist External links http mh.bmj.com Medical Humanities http blogs.bmj.com medical humanities Medical Humanities Blog http www.springerlink.com content 104920 Journal of Medical Humanities http www.sinescope.org blogs medicinae humanistica Medicinae Humanistica ... for Medical Humanities, Durham University http www.kcl.ac.uk research groups chh Centre for the Humanities ... of Medicine Medical Humanities and Arts http sydney.edu.au medicine humanities University of Sydney Centre for Medical Humanities http litmed.med.nyu.edu Main?action new Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database at NYU School of Medicine http www.stonybrook.edu bioethics Center for Medical Humanities ... Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology http www.ccdc.in theatre oppressed medical humanities Centre for Community Dialogue and Change, Bengaluru, India Theatre of the Oppressed in Medical Humanities Education Category Subjects taught in medical school ... more details
refimprove date July 2011 The digital humanities is an area of research, teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities . Developing from an earlier field called humanities computing, today digital humanities embrace a variety of topics ranging from curating online collections to data mining large cultural data sets. Digital Humanities currently ... humanities disciplines such as history , philosophy , linguistics , literature , art , archaeology ... digital publishing . Objectives Digital humanities work has a number of goals. One goal is to systematically integrate computer technology into the activities of humanities scholars , ref name neh ... tabid 57 Default.aspx work National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities ... commons based peer collaboration interactive games and multimedia in the traditional arts and humanities ... of Southern California . A growing number of researchers in digital humanities are working on using ..., see Humanities High Performance Computing competition sponsored by NEH Office of Digital Humanities .... Digital humanities research can also be categorized in another way many humanities scholars want to use ... work in the humanities remains somewhat problematic although there are good signs that this is changing ... volume of important scholarship in the digital humanities suggests, however, that recognition is unavoidable ... for a particular task in a single project, the Digital Humanities draws on the existing body of expertise ... July 2011 Terminology The terminological change from humanities computing to digital humanities has ... Humanities 2001 , tried to prevent the field from being viewed as mere digitization. ref name fitzpatrick Cite news last Fitzpatrick first Kathleen title The humanities, done digitally work The Chronicle ... The Humanities Done Digitally 127382 ref Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use the methods of contemporary humanities in studying ... more details
as an overview of and topical guide to the humanitiesHumanities &ndash the humanities are List of academic ... from the mainly empirical approaches of the Science natural sciences . The Humanities The humanities ... cultural and social arrangements that make up human lives. Sub categories of Humanities Classics ... classics &ndash application of the tools of digital humanities to the field of classics, or more broadly ..., analysis, and research. It is a branch of the Digital Humanities and an outgrowth of Quantitative history ..., makeup, procurement of props, stage management, and recording and mixing of sound. Humanities ... and the humanities. Typical area studies programs involve history, political science, sociology, cultural ... to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. Interdisciplinary humanities Area studies &ndash interdisciplinary approach to studying a geographic area. Ecological humanities &ndash ... in the humanities over the past several decades in particular environmental philosophy, environmental ... Applied humanities Applied arts such as fashion design , graphic design , industrial design , interior design Health humanities &ndash application of humanities disciplines to discourse ... humanities &ndash is an interdisciplinary field of medicine which includes the humanities and their application to medical education and practice. General humanities methodologies Digital humanities ... of the humanities. It is focused on the digitization and analysis of materials related to the traditional disciplines of the humanities. Digital classics &ndash application of the tools of digital humanities to the field of classics, or more broadly to the study of the ancient world. Digital ..., and research. It is a branch of the Digital Humanities and an outgrowth of Quantitative history, Cliometrics, and History and Computing. Humanities by region Humanities in the United States Politics and the humanities Arts and Humanities Research Council &ndash British Research Council and non departmental ... more details
Italic title Medical Humanities is a biannual Peer review peer reviewed academic journal covering the field of medical humanities . ref name about cite web url http mh.bmj.com site about title About Medical Humanities work BMJ website accessdate 2012 02 17 ref The editor in chief is Deborah Kirklin University College London . ref name board cite web url http mh.bmj.com site about edboard.xhtml title Medical Humanities Editorial Board format work accessdate 2012 02 24 ref The journal is abstracted and indexed by the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents Arts and Humanities. ref name about The journal was launched in 2000, ref name about with the first volume being numbered 26. ref name 2000archive cite web url http mh.bmj.com content by year 2000 title MH Archive of all 2000 Online Issues format work BMJ website accessdate 2012 02 24 ref References Reflist External links Official http mh.bmj.com Category General medical journals Category Multidisciplinary humanities journals Category BMJ Group academic journals Category English language journals Category Biannual journals med journal stub ... more details
The Master of Humanities is an interdisciplinary graduate degree in the Education in the United States United States which is focused on the humanities the humanities includes subjects such as history, literature, and philosophy . It is the study of human behavior, practices, and thought. ref http www.google.com search?hl en&rls com.microsoft en us&defl en&q define humanities&ei 9Gf7Sbi FIm MuzWsL0E&sa X&oi glossary definition&ct title ref . Master of Humanities MH degrees are relatively new a few online programs exist, as well as traditional on campus programs offering such degrees. anchor Advantage of Programs Program advantages Many students in MH programs are preparing to teach at the community college level, enhance their teaching abilities at the high school level, or are preparing for Ph.D. programs. MH degrees also offer students opportunities in writing and research, government and non profit work and creative careers. anchor List of Degree Programs Degree programs Arcadia University Pennsylvania ref http www.arcadia.edu academic default.aspx?id 564 Master of Arts in Humanities Retrieved 2011 08 15. ref Braniff Graduate School, University of Dallas University of Colorado at Denver Old Dominion University Virginia Tiffin University Ohio Wright State University Ohio ref http www.wright.edu cola Prog humanities Master of Humanities Degree Retrieved 2011 08 15. ref California State University Northridge ref http tsengcollege.csun.edu humanities humanities.html California State University Northridge Master of Arts in Humanities Retrieved 2011 08 15. ref Wilson College Pennsylvania ref http www.wilson.edu academics graduate programs index.aspx Wilson College graduate programs Retrieved 2011 08 15. ref References references Category Master s degrees ... more details
The ecological humanities is an interdisciplinary area of research, drawing on the many environmental sub disciplines that have emerged in the humanities over the past several decades in particular environmental philosophy, environmental history and environmental anthropology . The ecological humanities aims to help bridge traditional divides between the sciences and the humanities, and between Western ... world and the place of humans in it Rose 2004 . The ecological humanities are characterised ... One of the fundamental Ontology ontological presuppositions of ecological humanities is that the Organic ... Kingsland1985 When we see everything as connected, then the traditional questions of the humanities ... of such a connectivity ontology is, as proponents of the ecological humanities argue, that we begin ... . The ecological humanities therefore, require both linear and non linear modes of language through ... which can adequately express both linear and non linear connectivities. Axioms of ecological humanities There are two axioms of ecological humanities The axiom of submission to ecological energetics ecosystem ... activity of political economic philosophy. If in accordance with the axioms of ecological humanities ... . In ecological energetics, just as in ecological humanities, the causal bond between connections ... of Nature and the Birth of Ecological Humanities , Organization and Environment , Vol 11, No. 2 ... & Environment , Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 61 75. D. Rose and L. Robin 2004 The Ecological Humanities in Action An Invitation , Australian Humanities Review, 31 2 D.R. Weiner 2000 Models of Nature ... refend External links http www.ecologicalhumanities.org Ecological Humanities website http www.lib.latrobe.edu.au AHR archive Issue April 2004 rose.html D.B.Rose and L. Robin 2004 The Ecological Humanities in Action An Invitation , Australian Humanities Review , Issue 31 32 http www.humanities.org.au Policy NRP expandingRPpapers GriffithsRP.pdf T. Griffiths The Humanities and an Environmentally ... more details
College of Humanities and Social Sciences may refer to Carnegie Mellon College of Humanities and Social Sciences North Carolina State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences UCR College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences school disambiguation ... more details
Image Nyekua.jpg thumb 300px The Faculty of Humanities on Amager . About a faculty at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanitiesdisambiguation The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is the largest faculty in terms of number of students and range of subjects. It has 22 departments plus a number of multi disciplinary centres that cover about 75 subjects. The Faculty provides programmes leading to Bachelor s degree Bachelor s , Master s degree Master s , and other degrees in the Humanities and Psychology , as well as a number of supplementary courses. The Faculty of Humanities can be roughly divided into the following areas History , Philosophy , subjects relating to Social and Cultural history , Fine Arts , Communication , Linguistics , Nordic languages , other European languages , non European languages , Classical languages , Psychology , and Education . The Faculty has a number of collaborative research and educational partnerships, such as the one with the The Department of Musicology at the Palacky University Olomouc Department of Musicology of Palack University of Olomouc Philosophy Palack University Faculty of Philosophy . External links http www.humanities.ku.dk Homepage of the Faculty of Humanities coord 55 39 46.11 N 12 35 15.68 E source dawiki region DK type landmark display title DEFAULTSORT University Of Copenhagen Faculty Of Humanities Category University of Copenhagen Category Modernist architecture in Scandinavia Denmark university stub da Det Humanistiske Fakultet K benhavns Universitet ... more details
Image Nah.jpg thumb right National Arts & Humanities Month National Arts & Humanities Month was established in 1993 and is celebrated every October in the United States. It was initiated to encourage Americans to explore new facets of the arts and humanities in their lives, and to begin a lifelong habit of active participation in the arts and humanities. It has become the nation s largest collective annual celebration of the arts. National Arts and Humanities Month s four primary goals are To create a national, state and local focus on the arts and humanities through the media. To encourage the active participation of individuals, as well as arts, humanities and other interested organizations nationwide. To provide an opportunity for federal, state and local business, government and civic leaders to declare their support for the arts and humanities. To establish a highly visible vehicle for raising public awareness about the arts and humanities. See also Americans for the Arts California Arts Day National Arts Awards External links http www.AmericansForTheArts.org nahm Americans For the Arts website http www.nasaa arts.org Advocacy National Arts and Humanities Month.php Celebrate National Arts & Humanities Month http www.globallb.com GLOBAL Long Beach Arts Month Category Arts festivals in the United States Category October observances ... more details
Infobox journal title Law, Culture and the Humanities cover File Law, Culture and the Humanities journal front cover image.jpg 200px editor Austin Sarat discipline Humanities former names abbreviation publisher SAGE Publications on behalf of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities country frequency Triannually history 2005 present openaccess license impact impact year website http www.sagepub.com journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId Journal201817 link1 http lch.sagepub.com content current link1 name Online access link2 http lch.sagepub.com content by year link2 name Online archive JSTOR OCLC 648971733 LCCN 2005256014 CODEN ISSN 1743 8721 eISSN 1743 9752 Law, Culture and the Humanities is a Peer review peer reviewed academic journal that publishes papers three times a year in the field of humanities . The journal s editor in chief is Austin Sarat Amherst College . It was established in 2005 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities . The journal covers legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, and legal hermeneutics . Abstracting and indexing Law, Culture and the Humanities is abstracted and indexed in International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and Scopus . External links Official website http lch.sagepub.com http www.law.syr.edu academics centers lch main.html Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Official website Category SAGE academic journals Category English language journals Category Multidisciplinary humanities journals Category Triannual journals Category Publications established in 2005 ... more details
Infobox institute name Department of Digital Humanities image Image King s College London Digital Humanities.png thumb image size image name image alt caption established 1991 president chairman head label Head of Department head Andrew Prescott faculty staff budget endowment debt members location city ... http www.kcl.ac.uk artshums depts ddh index.aspx Department of Digital Humanities footnotes The Department of Digital Humanities DDH formerly Centre for Computing in the Humanities is an academic department and research centre in the King s College London School of Arts and Humanities School of Arts & Humanities at King s College London . DDH counts amongst the most visible ref name caraco Cite journal volume 57 issue 2 last Caraco first Benjamin title Les digital humanities et les biblioth ques ... url http bbf.enssib.fr consulter bbf 2012 02 0069 002 appelnote 11 ref digital humanities centres worldwide ... programme as a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research and as a unit providing collegial support to its sister departments in the School of Arts and Humanities. As a research centre, the Department of Digital Humanities is a member of the Humanities ... disciplinary focus. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities was established by Professor Harold Short in 1991, and changed its name in 2011. Professor Andrew Prescott, Chair of Digital Humanities, is currently Head of Department. See also King s College London Digital Humanities Humanistic informatics ... artshums depts ddh index.aspx Department of Digital Humanities Homepage http twitter.com kingsdh Department of Digital Humanities on Twitter http www.facebook.com kcl.ddh Department of Digital Humanities on Facebook http www.kcl.ac.uk artshums depts ddh research projects index.aspx Research ... Institutional models for humanities computing King s College London DEFAULTSORT Digital Humanities, Department of Category King s College London Category University of London Category Digital Humanities ... more details
wikify date January 2010 Unreferenced date January 2010 Established in 1988, the Consortium of Humanities ... and the sharing of resources within the humanities and Interpretive sociology interpretive social sciences ... of Humanities Centers and Institutes CHCI serves as an arena for the discussion of issues germane to crossdisciplinary activity in the humanities and as a network for the circulation of information and best practice s related to the organizational and management dimensions of humanities ... Board of member directors and other leaders in the humanities. CHCI was established in 1988 as the product of two meetings The Institutional Impact of Institutes at the University of California Humanities ... ACLS , convened by E. Ann Kaplan of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University . These gatherings were the first moments at which directors of humanities research organizations had come ... Woodward, currently Director of the The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University ... development and network building. In 2001 CHCI moved to the auspices of the Humanities ... Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University , under the leadership of current CHCI President ... begun discussions with humanities leaders in various parts of the world to identify wikt affinity ... about broadly defined, current issues in the humanities. Each Annual Meeting includes useful and lively ..., network, and collaborate with peers and counterparts at humanities centers and institutes from ... CHCI Annual Meetings Whose Global Humanities? br June 14 15, 2010 br Cogut Center for the Humanities ... Research in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh The Humanities in an Age of Science br March 14 15, 2008 br The Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis Regional Logics br April ... April 28 29, 2006 br Franke Institute for the Humanities , University of Chicago Open to the Public ... br April 16 17, 2004 br Stanford Humanities Center , Stanford University International Advisory ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The Kentucky Humanities Council , Inc. is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. The Council is supported by the National Endowment and by private contributions. It is not a state agency, and receives no state funds. The group performs living history dramas and publishes Kentucky Humanities magazine. External links http www.kyhumanities.org Home page Category Kentucky culture Category Non profit organizations based in Kentucky Category Arts organizations based in the United States ... more details
The Franke Institute for the Humanities is located in Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago . It promotes sharp, rigorous scholarship in the humanities and social sciences by sponsoring research fellows, organizing talks, workshops, and conferences, and attracting participants from the university, the city of Chicago, IL Chicago , and a global community of artists, academics, and other interested audiences. The institute is named for Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke, who have supported it financially since its founding in 1990. The current director is Professor James Chandler . The Franke Institute for the Humanities is a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes CHCI . External links http humanities.uchicago.edu orgs institute index.html Franke Institute http www.fas.harvard.edu chci The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes CHCI coord 41.792001 87.599686 type edu globe earth region US IL display title Category 1990 establishments in the United States Category Humanities institutes Category Research institutes in the United States ... more details
refimprove date August 2010 Infobox Organization name Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations image symbol symbol type linking name leader title leader name formation 2005 type headquarters location membership language key people website http digitalhumanities.org DigitalHumanities.org The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations , or ADHO , is a digital humanities umbrella organization formed in 2005 to coordinate the activities of the http www.allc.org Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing ALLC , the http www.ach.org Association for Computers in the Humanities ACH , and the http www.sdh semi.org Society for Digital Humanities Soci t pour l tude des m dias interactifs SDH SEMI . ref Cite web last Unsworth first John title Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations ADHO work Academic Commons accessdate 2010 07 09 date 2007 12 16 url http www.academiccommons.org library adho ref History The effort to establish the Alliance began in T bingen , Germany, at the ALLC ... Steering Committee voted to enfranchise The Society for Digital Humanities Soci t pour l tude des m dias interactifs SDH SEMI founded in 1986 as the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities Consortium ..., which began as the ACH ALLC or ALLC ACH conference, and is now known as the Digital Humanities ... access, peer reviewed electronic journal from http www.sdh semi.org SDH SEMI Digital Humanities Quarterly ... epc chwp Computers in the Humanities Working Papers , an online preprint publication http texttechnology.mcmaster.ca ... University The Busa Prize The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations awards the Busa Prize , which honors leaders in the field of digital humanitieshumanities computing , in honor of Italy Italian ... of Digital Humanities Organizations accessdate 2011 08 11 url http www.digitalhumanities.org awards ... Organizations established in 2005 Category Humanities Category History organizations Category Digital humanities ... more details
Humanities in the United States refers to the study of humanities disciplines, such as literature, history ... education , which requires all college students to study the humanities in addition to their specific ... on the Humanities described the humanities in its report, The Humanities in American Life blockquote Through the humanities we reflect on the fundamental question What does it mean to be human? The humanities ... as birth, friendship, hope, and reason. blockquote Criticism of the traditional humanities ... there is keen competition among those with degrees in the humanities as many may find themselves ... today in the humanities Questioning distinctions The very concept of the humanities as a class ... Rorty has argued that the distinction between the sciences and the humanities is harmful to both ... fuzziness . This leads to a kind of pragmatism where the oppositions between the humanities, the arts, and the sciences, might gradually fade away... In this situation, the humanities would no longer ... of the humanities, which Edward Said has characterized as a conservative philosophy of gentlemanly refinement, or sensibility. Such postmodernism postmodernists argue that the humanities should ... in the humanities believe that such changes may be detrimental, as they lead to moral relativism ... . ref Kernan, Alvin, editor What s Happened to the Humanities? , Princeton University Press , Princeton ... Lyndon Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act in 1965 http www.neh.gov whoweare overview.html , creating the National Council on the Humanities and funded the National Endowment for the Humanities NEH in 1969. NEH is an independent grant making agency of the United ... in the humanities see Public humanities . NEH facilitated the creation of http www.neh.gov whoweare statecouncils.html State Humanities Councils in the 56 U.S. states and territories. Each council operates independently, defining the humanities in relationship to the disciplines, subjects, and values ... more details
Image FHI logo PMS2745 .png right The Franklin Humanities Institute FHI is an interdisciplinary humanities center house within the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University dedicated to supporting humanities , arts, and social science research and teaching. The institute s mission is to encourage humanistic inquiry throughout Duke campus and to raise public awareness of the humanities. Named after the prominent African American historian and civil rights activist John Hope Franklin , who retired from Duke in 1985 as the James B. Duke professor of History, the institute has also made a commitment to promote scholarship that enhances social equity, especially through research on race and ethnicity. The Franklin Humanities Institute is part of a consortium of interdisciplinary research centers ... Studies at Duke. History The Franklin Humanities Institute was founded in 1999 by Cathy Davidson , then Vice Provost for interdisciplinary Studies, and Karla FC Holloway, former Dean of the Humanities ... for a project entitled Making the Humanities Central. The grant was renewed for a second three ... of Humanities Centers and Institutes CHCI , an international organization that supports interdisciplinary humanities scholarship and institution building. Prior to moving to Duke, the CHCI was based ... as Dean of Humanities at Duke University in 2009. Programs The Franklin Humanities Institute ... of Art, Art History and Visual Studies . In addition to the Annual Seminar, the Franklin Humanities ... Annual Distinguished Lecture in Humanities has featured well known scholars from many fields and from ... Humanities Institute has made a number of its public events available for download as video and audio ... Franklin Humanities Institute Podcasts at Duke iTunes U iTunes required http www.chcinetwork.org Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes http www.duke.edu Duke University Dukeschools coord ... 1999 establishments in the United States Category Humanities institutes Category Research institutes ... more details
Infobox journal title Digital Humanities Quarterly cover editor Julia Flanders discipline Humanities abbreviation publisher Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations country frequency Quarterly history 2007 present openaccess Yes license Creative Commons licenses Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 impact impact year website http www.digitalhumanities.org dhq link1 link1 name link2 link2 name JSTOR OCLC 122912409 LCCN 2007214388 CODEN ISSN 1938 4122 eISSN Digital Humanities Quarterly is a peer review peer reviewed Open access publishing open access academic journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. The journal is also a community experiment in journal publication. ref name diglib Cite web title Digital Humanities work Digital Library Federation accessdate 2011 07 17 url http www.diglib.org community groups digitalhumanities ref The journal is funded and published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations ref Cite journal doi 10.1093 llc fqr002 volume 26 issue 1 pages 3 4 last Vanhoutte first Edward title Editorial journal Literary and Linguistic Computing accessdate 2011 07 11 date 2011 04 01 url http llc.oxfordjournals.org ... policy Digital Humanities Quarterly has been noted among the few interesting attempts to peer review ... digital humanities practices to the wider arts and humanities community and beyond, ref Cite journal doi 10.1093 llc fqm037 volume 23 issue 1 pages 103 108 last Archer first Dawn title Digital Humanities ... title About DHQ work Digital Humanities Quarterly accessdate 2011 03 31 ref It develops translation ... of Digital Humanities Organizations. ref name diglib The journal aims to heighten the visibility and acceptance of digital humanities with reviews that are modeled on traditional book reviews but focus ... humanities journal stub Category Open access journals Category Digital humanities Category Quarterly journals Category Publications established in 2007 Category Multidisciplinary humanities ... more details
Infobox university name University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg br Faculty of Humanities image name image size 200px established type Public university Public dean Tawana Kupe city Johannesburg state country South Africa affiliations University of the Witwatersrand website http www.wits.ac.za humanities The Faculty of Humanities is one of the faculties of the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , located in the South West Engineering Building on Campuses of the University of the Witwatersrand East Campus East Campus . ref http www.wits.ac.za academic humanities 7230 contact us.html Wits University Faculty of Humanities , Contact Us, retrieved 7 December 2011 ref The Dean of the Faculty is Professor Tawana Kupe. ref http www.whoswhosa.co.za tawana kupe 8308 Who s Who SA , Tawana ... humanities Wits University , Faculty of Humanities, retrieved 7 December 2011 ref Social ... The School of Social Sciences, located in Central Block, ref http www.wits.ac.za academic humanities socialsciences 8151 contact us.html Wits University Faculty of Humanities , School of Social ... academic humanities 8150 socialsciences.html Wits School of Social Sciences , retrieved ... in ref http www.wits.ac.za academic humanities slls 7570 homepage.html Wits School of Literature ... Building, ref http www.wits.ac.za academic humanities umthombo 7280 contact us.html Wits ... courses in ref http www.wits.ac.za academic humanities umthombo home 7281 home.html Wits School ... www.wits.ac.za academic humanities wsoa 8762 contact us.html Wits School of Arts , Contact Us, retrieved 7 December 2011 ref offers undergraduate courses in ref http www.wits.ac.za academic humanities ... in ref http www.wits.ac.za academic humanities education 7770 education.html Wits School of Education ... External links http www.wits.ac.za humanities Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand References reflist Category University of the Witwatersrand Humanities ... more details
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