Knowledge Commons | Advocating for the Humanities | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/ Activity feed for the group, Advocating for the Humanities. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:40:13 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 13148c77bf5d9803e2f7a215fb8b7374 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891448/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:04 -0400 In: "Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?", ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 13148c77bf5d9803e2f7a215fb8b7374 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891447/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:04 -0400 In: "Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?", ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 4e50770a744122a7901f26e9f52e0513 Tobias Steiner deposited Pluralities: Scholar-led publishing und Open Access. Zur Rolle von scholar-led publishing in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Teil 1) in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815889/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:25:09 -0400 Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today's often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e520742f55fc6f5cfd5d859b11097337 Tobias Steiner deposited Old Traditions: Scholar-led publishing und Open Access – zu den Anfängen digitalen scholar-led Publishings in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Teil 2) in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815885/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:24:42 -0400 Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today's often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5832c8d5f2a78b622786ac0cc43d0f4 Tobias Steiner deposited New Communities: Scholar-led publishing und Open Access – aktuelle scholar-led Publishing-Initiativen und Open Access in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Teil 3) in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815881/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:23:39 -0400 Publication cultures in academia are as diverse as their underlying research cultures. In today's often normative discourse on Open Access, there is a danger that this diversity will be neglected or even lost in the medium term in favor of techno-solutionist implementations. In the following, I will therefore take a closer look at the approach of…[Read more]

]]> 0 163acaf075c273c7bfabb8e540d5cdcb Gary Hall deposited Defund Culture in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783359/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 02:23:38 -0400 The spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2767ed6ab745005dc1eddd4e094c97a William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761562/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:23:41 -0500 While many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3096322600fc0b6e7e3dba9f6944ffc1 Kath Burton started the topic Public Humanities and Publication working paper in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/public-humanities-and-publication-working-paper-2/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:20:56 -0500 Today we are posting the first paper from the Publishing and Publicly Engaged Humanities working group: https://hcommons.org/?get_group_doc=1003800/1611561373-PublicHumanitiesandPublication_workingpaper2021.pdf

Exploring the challenges associated with the publication of public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship, this paper is the…[Read more]

]]> 63f40505158a10da184312a1fdca9ed2 William Nichols deposited At the Crossroads: Learning to Speak the (Foreign) Language of Higher Education Leadership in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692096/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 03:48:43 -0400 More than ten years have passed since the 2007 MLA Ad Hoc Committee of Foreign Languages report recommended structural and curricular change initiatives to counteract the growing crisis in postsecondary world language education. Almost a decade earlier, Heidi Byrnes had already expounded on the need to replace persistent bifurcated curricular…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f0039df1dc3ad8f45ed52c5771d3682 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-2/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:15:58 -0400 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 - August 29

I'd like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt's novel Bottom's Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> c02f9657f8f5200f7a6f6f2b5d224958 Steven Aoun deposited Reviews of Lord of the Rings (Return of the King), Passion of Christ and Schindlers List in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678067/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:26:29 -0500 A very critical overview of seemingly disparate films

]]> 0 ca0fce057c7fef1c6420d0ccc650e259 Gary Hall deposited On Class in Elitist Britain in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643348/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:25:28 -0400 A report published by the Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission this week, ‘Elitist Britain’, found that two fifths (39%) of Britain’s ‘leading people’ were educated privately, more than five times as many as in the population as a whole, with almost one quarter (24%) graduating from Oxbridge. I therefore thought it would be timely to publis…[Read more]

]]> 0 63ced647df83db4e744da549644fa83c Tobias Steiner deposited TV Studies for all? On Open Access and Publishing in TV and Media Studies in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633390/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 04:03:03 -0500 Personal perspective on the current state of open access and publishing practices in the fields of Television and Media Studies, and pointers to a variety of scholar-led initiatives and options of where scholars can actually publish open access in their field without the payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs).

]]> 0 9049547a3484468513c541c2d278d377 Gary Hall deposited Cities of InfraRed in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631538/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:38:28 -0500 Cities of InfraRed is an abstract for my proposed contribution to a book that is being put together by Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder. The book has the working title of Aesthetics of the Commons, and arises out of the Creating Commons research project at the Zurich University of the Arts.

A version of Cities of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd23181868e4c650bc73b204f18318db William Nichols deposited Telling the Story of Iberian Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628158/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 03:50:12 -0500 This is a paper that I presented at the 2019 MLA in Chicago. In this paper I situate discussions of the field of Iberian Studies within the context of the crisis of the Humanities and the future of Cultural Studies.

]]> 0 1cc084cd99142bc85d29fb73bdd7bd38 Gary Hall deposited Übercapitalism and What Can Be Done About It in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621440/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:25:43 -0400 We live in an increasingly übercapitalist society. It’s übercapitalist in that a specific version of neoliberalism, characterised by low pay, zero-hours and fixed-term contracts, is growing ever more aggressive; and that the disruptive technology firm Uber offers one of the most high-profile examples of this intensified form of deregulated cap…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a86d8ea7fb4e15535ffdb5da7798e26 Olalekan Adigun deposited People, Power, and Change: Analysing the Causes of Power Shifts in Africa Since the Cold War in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1598164/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 04:14:50 -0500 This paper attempts to provide answers to the following questions: What are the causes of political changes in Africa in the 21st century? Are these changes people-led? What are the challenges militating against people-led political changes in Africa? The paper takes a look at the nature of the post-colonial states of Africa since the Cold War…[Read more]

]]> 0 959d5522877037f11ae74337a0d6c2c7 Eirikur Smari Sigurdarson deposited Drowning by Numbers. Evaluating Social Capacities in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575621/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:02:04 -0400 Impact and evaluation of research in the humanities has been the subject of several recent publications (e.g. Benneworth et al. 2016, Ochsner et al. 2016, Severinson 2017). A common theme is the need for a re-evaluation of how the humanities are evaluated, as well as for research on the effects of evaluation practices on the humanities (Ochsner et…[Read more]

]]> 0 11679a8c204a07bfe3aa1bb7ea5c7e7a Nicky Agate replied to the topic Resources in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/resources/#post-1870 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:27:53 -0500 We the People petition to "Preserve the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities." Needs 100,000 signatures by Feb 20!

]]> 224505bf3daaf8d41a5adc8fdc0b0e2a Nicky Agate replied to the topic Resources in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/resources/#post-1868 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:12:46 -0500 Humanities Moments, a project of the National Humanities Center, tells stories of the humanities having a positive impact on people's lives.

]]> d9c4ca504fe9f3008c8168f1b41f936e Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The NEH and Economic Impact to Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560785/ Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:03:54 -0500 Funding for NEH represents just 0.003% of the Federal budget, but has significant impact on American lives.

]]> 0 0e7d91488bba508723f6251a21baf614 Nicky Agate replied to the topic Resources in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/resources/#post-1867 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:58:36 -0500 Want to e-mail or call your members of congress? This site will directly connect you to the pertinent office.

]]> e879532e435311024be610228b50e9d0 Nicky Agate replied to the topic Resources in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/resources/#post-1864 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:54:40 -0500 The ACH (Association for Computers and the Humanities) is collecting NEH Stories, testimonies of how the NEH has supported your research, teaching, and learning.

]]> 6edbf7ea69ab97799a597444909b4b0a Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Welcome! in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/welcome-3/ Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:47:31 -0500 We invite you to use this space to strategize and make plans for humanities advocacy. These efforts might include joining the March for Science, participating in Humanities Advocacy Day, or other means of organizing communication with policy makers. Your ideas and energy are most welcome!

]]> 8242e8ad1089a863c79505b7624a4db2 Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Resources in the discussion Humanities March https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-march/forum/topic/resources/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:07:50 -0500 Use this thread to suggest resources for advocating on behalf of the humanities. A few to begin:

National Humanities Alliance: A coalition of organizations dedicated to advancing humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs. The NHA has its own advocacy group here on Humanities Commons too.

4Humanities: An advocacy…[Read more]

]]> 1c078fcbeccba58799e5a38ccb81846e Kathleen Fitzpatrick created the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559165/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:49:39 -0500 0