Humanities is important because it - teaches us what it means to be human -teaches us about the world we live in -to think creatively and critically - to be virtuous For some reason unfort. when I uploaded the video towards the end a bit of pictures didn't seem to upload or my video had a glitch during the upload. But u can hear the sound atleast. I do apologize for that hiccup.
As universities across the country question the need for humanities education, John Landy, co-director of Stanford's Philosophy and Literature Initiative comes to the defense of literature. "Spending time in the presence of works of great beauty can powerfully change your life," he says. Related story: news.stanford.edu Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford News: news.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
Digital humanities scholars are a diverse group whose work is the result of cross-pollination among humanities scholarship, computer science, and digital media. Many well-known digital humanities projects apply tools borrowed from computer science—such as data-mining or geographic information systems—to works of literature, historical documents, and other materials traditionally in the domain of the humanities. What do digital humanities scholars see as the potential of this interdisciplinary field? And what are the important theoretical and methodological contributions digital humanities can offer to both the humanities and the sciences Panelists: Daniel J. Cohen, Assoc. Professor of History and Director of the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. Federica Frabetti, Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media, and Culture Program at Oxford Brookes University. Dino Buzzetti recently retired from the Dept. of Philosophy at the University of Bologna.
Complete video at: fora.tv Reflecting on his stint at Caltech, novelist Ian McEwan argues that while math and science majors are often well-read, humanities students tend to know little about the sciences. "They know our stuff, but we don't know their stuff," says McEwan. ----- In Ian McEwan's new novel Solar, the best-selling author of Atonement explores the quest of one overweight and philandering Nobel prize-winning physicist to save the world from environmental disaster. - Los Angeles Public Library Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including the novels On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the WH Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; and In Between the Sheets. He lives in London. David Kipen is the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History, and translator of Cervantes' The Dialogue of the Dogs. Until January 2010, Kipen was the Literature Director of the National Endowment of the Arts, where he directed the Big Read and the Guadalajara Book Festival initiatives. He also served from 1998 to 2005 as book critic, and before that book editor, for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Darwin College Lecture Series 2010. "Risk and Humanities". Professor Mary Beard (Cambridge). Was there risk before modernity? This lecture explores how we might tell the ancient history of risk—from oracles (an ancient form of risk assessment) through gambling and agricultural strategies to the parade of Luck and Chance in sculptural form. In Greece and Rome (and other pre modern societies) is it misleading to think in terms of risk? Is it more helpful to ask simply, What did people worry about?—a question to which we find some surprising answers. At the same time, there is another agenda underlying this lecture: an exploration of the risks facing research and teaching in the Humanities. What do academics need to be worried about today and for the future? The lecture will include the first consultation of the Oracles of Astrampsychus for many centuries. Biography Mary Beard is one of Britains best-known Classicists Fellow of Newnham College and a distinguished Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge where she has taught for the last 25 years. She has written numerous books on the Ancient World, including the 2008 Wolfson Prize-winner, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town which portrays a vivid account of life in Pompeii in all its aspects from food to sex to politics. Previous books include The Roman Triumph, Classical Art from Greece to Rome and books on the Parthenon and the Colosseum as part of a series on wonders of the world. Her interests range from the ...
Part 2 of four videos showing pilot projects at the cutting edge of research in digital humanities. Recorded at the National Endowment for the Humanities in September 2010, at a meeting of project managers who received start-up grants from NEH's Office of Digital Humanities. These are the individual projects, in order of appearance: St. Louis University -- The T-PEN Tool: Sustainability and Quality Control in Encoding Handwritten Texts www.youtube.com University of Arizona -- Poetry Audio/Video Library Phase 2 www.youtube.com University of California, Los Angeles -- Software Interface for Real-time Exploration of Three-Dimensional Computer Models of Historic Urban Environments www.youtube.com University of California, San Diego -- Drama in the Delta www.youtube.com University of Chicago -- Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue Francaise (DVLF): Expanding the French Dictionary www.youtube.com University of Georgia -- AI for Architectural Discourse www.youtube.com University of Maryland, College Park -- MITH API Workshop www.youtube.com University of Nebraska -- Sustaining Digital History www.youtube.com University of North Texas -- Mapping Historical Texts: Combining Text-mining & Geo-visualization to Unlock the Research Potential of Historical Newspapers www.youtube.com University of Richmond -- Landscapes of the American Past: Visualizing Emancipation www.youtube.com University of Virginia -- Supercomputing for Digitized 3D Models of Cultural Heritage www.youtube.com ...
