The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future

The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Humanities
ISBN: 3038420549

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future - Volume 1" that was published in Humanities

The Humanities: Past, Present and Future

The Humanities: Past, Present and Future
Author: Michael F. Shaughnessy
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Humanities
ISBN: 9781536119763

The humanities have been an integral part of humanitys cultural structure for centuries. In this book, a number of leading scholars reflect on the past, present and offer their perspectives for the future of the humanities. The first chapter (written by Jennifer Laubenthal, Jonathan Helmick and Kathleen Melago) describes the vitality of music for humanistic study. Next, Kevin Donnelly provides his perspectives and research of the humanities as they pertain to Australian history. Professor Donald Elder then extols the humanities from a historical perspective, investigating key crucial events that have taken place in America. Literacy and literacy instruction in the past, present and future are detailed by Professors Thompson and Coffey, while scholar Paul Horton examines the plight of the humanities in the vise of K-20 corporate education reform. Emerging technologies in humanities education is critically examined by Arjun Sabharwal while Gerald Cupchik explores the humanities, emotions and aesthetics in a singular fashion. The realms of pedagogy and knowledge are explored by Will Fitzhugh and Michael F. Shaughnessy, while Greg Eft paints a panorama of concerning the definition of beauty as it pertains to the humanities. Geni Flores then follows in a chapter that promotes and accentuates the importance of multiculturalism and diversity as instruments of social justice. Josh McVey interprets Scripture and its origins within the humanities while Anna Beck explores historical American theatre and provides a glimpse of this realm through various windows. Opal Greer sheds light on what we may be able to discern from the humanities past and envisions the realm of their future in universities and academia. Professor Elder contributes a second time to this manuscript, boldly going where not historian has gone before and examining the relevance of space history to this subject matter. Bringing the book to a close, Herbert London offers his perspective on the future of the humanities. Scholars, researchers, critics, historians, art lovers, and musicians as well as many involved in education will relish and enjoy this rich, robust exploration of the humanities and its relation to the past, present and future.

Timescales

Timescales
Author: Bethany Wiggin
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2020-01-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1452963681

Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis In 2016, Antarctica’s Totten Glacier, formed some 34 million years ago, detached from its bedrock, melted from the bottom by warming ocean waters. For the editors of Timescales, this event captures the disjunctive temporalities of our era’s—the Anthropocene’s—ecological crises: the rapid and accelerating degradation of our planet’s life-supporting environment established slowly over millennia. They contend that, to represent and respond to these crises (i.e., climate change, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, species extinction, and biodiversity loss) requires reframing time itself, making more visible the relationship between past, present, and future, and between a human life span and the planet’s. Timescales’ collection of lively and thought-provoking essays puts oceanographers, geophysicists, geologists, and anthropologists into conversation with literary scholars, art historians, and archaeologists. Together forging new intellectual spaces, they explore the relationship between geological deep time and historical particularity, between ecological crises and cultural expression, between environmental policy and social constructions, between restoration ecology and future imaginaries, and between constructive pessimism and radical (and actionable) hope. Interspersed among these essays are three complementary “etudes,” in which artists describe experimental works that explore the various timescales of ecological crisis. Contributors: Jason Bell, Harvard Law School; Iemanjá Brown, College of Wooster; Beatriz Cortez, California State U, Northridge; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U; Jane E. Dmochowski, U of Pennsylvania; David A. D. Evans, Yale U; Kate Farquhar; Marcia Ferguson, U of Pennsylvania; Ömür Harmanşah, U of Illinois at Chicago; Troy Herion; Mimi Lien; Mary Mattingly; Paul Mitchell, U of Pennsylvania; Frank Pavia, California Institute of Technology; Dan Rothenberg; Jennifer E. Telesca, Pratt Institute; Charles M. Tung, Seattle U.

Future of the Humanities

Future of the Humanities
Author: James Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351518267

This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggestions for interdisciplinary work around topics such as punishment, and death and dying.

Historical Understanding

Historical Understanding
Author: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350168793

Historical understanding today / Zoltán Boldizsár Simon -- The texture of the present / François Hartog -- Framing the polychronic present / Victoria Fareld -- Caught between past and future : on the uses of temporality for political exclusion / Moira Pérez -- In sync/out of sync / Helge Jordheim -- Favoring an offensive presentism / Lars Deile -- Infinite history / Marnie Hughes-Warrington -- History of the present : or, two approaches to causality and contingency / Stefanos Geroulanos -- Theses on theory and history wild on collective / Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder -- Can historians be replaced by algorithms? / Jo Guldi -- Planetary futures, planetary history / Zoltán Boldizsár Simon -- Future-oriented history / Marek Tamm -- What future for the future? Lessons from a global pandemic / Patrícia Vieira -- The future as a domain of historical inquiry / David Staley -- Periodization of the future / Cornelius Holtorf -- History and technology futures : where history and technology assessment come together / Silke Zimmer-Merkle -- Tomorrow is the question : modernity and the need for strong narratives about the future - and the past / Franz-Josef Arlinghaus -- Probing the limits of a metaphor : on the stratigraphic model in history and geology / Chris Lorenz -- Against the historicist tradition of historical understanding / Jörg van Norden -- Historical understanding and reconciliation after violent conflict / Berber Bevernage and Kate E. Temoney -- The cross-cultural appeal of the 'mirror' metaphor-history as practical past / Q. Edward Wang -- Mouse-eaten records / Erica Fudge -- Lines of sight : the historical certitude of digital reenactment / Vanessa Agnew -- The DNA Archive / Jerome De Groot -- Doing history and the pre-conceptual / Suman Gupta -- Historical understanding today : incidental remarks / Lars Deile.

The Spatial Humanities

The Spatial Humanities
Author: David J. Bodenhamer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253355052

Applying the analytical tools of GIS to new fields of research

Energy Humanities. Current State and Future Directions

Energy Humanities. Current State and Future Directions
Author: Matúš Mišík
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2020-11-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030574806

This edited book explicitly deals with the energy humanities, summarising existing knowledge in the area and outlining possible future directions for the nascent field. Assuming a variety of disciplinary stances and using a plethora of methodologies to address a number of pressing energy-related issues, the individual contributions showcase the crucial importance of including the humanities and social sciences into the current discussion on energy. Furthermore, they illustrate one of the central claims of the energy humanities, namely, that energy permeates all aspects of our contemporary modes of existence, and is inextricably linked with historical, political, social, ideological, and cultural issues, relationships, and practices. Through numerous case studies, Energy Humanities and Energy Transition looks to the past, present, and future in search of examples of best practices and possible models for pathways to a successful energy transition and life ‘after oilʼ. While much of existing research on energy humanities has been criticised for its excessive focus on oil, this book considers a wide range of energy resources, including nuclear energy, renewables, and natural gas. Furthermore, it brings to the forefront under-researched topics such as the colonial legacy inscribed in energy infrastructure and the energy history of the humanities. The contributions in this volume explore not only how the perspectives and expertise of the humanities and social sciences can alter the discourse on energy transition, and our way of thinking about possible solutions and future scenarios, but also how their new focus on energy affects the disciplines themselves. Energy Humanities and Energy Transition presents a variety of theories, methods, topics, and disciplinary angles, meaning it will be of interest to a wide audience, from practitioners and policy makers, to students and researchers working across the humanities and social sciences. The thematically oriented structure, distinct focus of each individual chapter, and the comprehensive introduction and conclusion that contextualize the contributions within the wider framework of energy transition, make this edited book accessible to readers from many different fields and suitable for various university programs.