AlanLiu

Dec 152012
 
4Humanities has moved to a new server and web site at http://4humanities.org/ For a brief time, the old site here at http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/ will remain online. However, the new site is the only one to which we are adding fresh content. Our gratitude to the University of Alberta for hosting 4Humanities on one of its development [...]
 Posted by on December 15, 2012
Nov 122012
 
The Kean University Faculty Seminar on “The Global Crisis and Promise of Higher Education” (organized in partnership with 4Humanities) will run its next Webinar of the year on November 12, 2012, featuring Dr. Jeffrey Toney and Corina Hernandez on “Public Investment in Higher Education: Ushering Our Campuses Into the 21st Century.” Jeffrey Toney is Vice [...]
 Posted by on November 12, 2012
Oct 092012
 
The Kean University Faculty Seminar on “The Global Crisis and Promise of Higher Education” (organized in partnership with 4Humanities) will run its second Webinar of the year on October 15, 2012, featuring James Lerman on “Futurecasting Higher Education’s Ecosystem: How Do I  Fit In?”  (See publicity flyer.)  The Webinar will meet 3:20-4:30 pm, Eastern Time [...]
 Posted by on October 9, 2012
Oct 022012
 
Many humanities professors — particularly those bludgeoned into submission by service on crisis-in-the-humanities committees — have been insisting lately that we need to become more technological and careerist because the public no longer values what we offer. But the facts suggest otherwise; and the discrepancy is revealing. What humanities scholars need to do is break [...]
 Posted by on October 2, 2012

Brett Foster, Two Poems for the Humanities

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Sep 172012
 
« A Humanities, Plain & Simple Post » Artes Liberales “The miserable servitude of the spirit” is not exactly how one wants to hear it: that’s just plain rude. Yet Augustine, I suppose, knew a thing or two of everything one must do to grow out of requisite imbroglios, to grow out of your own [...]
 Posted by on September 17, 2012
Sep 122012
 
« A Humanities, Plain & Simple Post » Some years ago, I planned and executed an event at St. Francis College (funded by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities) entitled: Humanities in Action. As part of the program (which included various speakers and presentations, [...]
 Posted by on September 12, 2012
Sep 082012
 
With permission from Professor Gregory F. Tague of St. Francis College, 4Humanties here republishes the keepsake brochure from the St. Francis College Humanities Day of February 7, 2002. The brochure (“Humanities in Action at St. Francis College: In the Spirit of Humanity: Why the Humanities Matter Today,” pdf) includes “reflections and observations” by many scholars, [...]
 Posted by on September 8, 2012
Sep 032012
 
A HUMANITIES, PLAIN & SIMPLE POST When you think “job opportunity,” you probably think technology, science, and business. You may think that a professional degree is a singular path to your success. Think again. In this economic situation in which no job is assured, most jobs are scarce, and few employers are waiting for you [...]
 Posted by on September 3, 2012
Sep 032012
 
A HUMANITIES, PLAIN & SIMPLE POST When you think “job opportunity,” you probably think technology, science, and business. You may think that a professional degree is a singular path to your success. Think again. In this economic situation in which no job is assured, most jobs are scarce, and few employers are waiting for you [...]
 Posted by on September 3, 2012
Aug 302012
 
The Kean University Faculty Seminar in partnership with 4Humanities will be running an online faculty and professional webinar series on “The Global Crisis and Promise of Higher Education” with eight video conference meetings September 2012 to May 2013. (See announcement flyer) Designed to be a think tank on changing directions in higher education, the webinar [...]
 Posted by on August 30, 2012