I wanted to (belatedly) share the following announcement from our
colleague Richard Eckman, the President of the Council of Independent
Colleges of the availability of an extensive set of materials from an
April 2011 Symposium on the Future of the Humanities. There's some
great material in here, and it's wonderful to have it available for
those of us who could not attend the symposium.
As you know, CIC and the School of Advanced International Studies
of Johns Hopkins University organized a Symposium on the Future of the
Humanities, which took place on March 29 in Washington, DC.
Because many people who were able to participate reported that
they found the day to be particularly stimulating and
thought-provoking, we have posted on the CIC website (
www.cic.edu/HumanitiesSymposium) the texts of most of the
presentations, including those by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Douglas C.
Bennett, Robert Darnton, Jean Bethke Elshstain, Thomas F. Flynn,
Edward Hirsch, Steven Knapp, Victoria Mora, Azar Nafisi, S. Georgia
Nugent, and Neil L. Rudenstine. Incisive introductory remarks by
several of the moderators, photographs taken during the Symposium, and
a list of all participants in the event are also available on the
website. Additional presentations will be posted as they become
available.
If you are interested in viewing the webcast as well, it is available
at
www.sais-jhu.edu/humanities. A number of the presentations are likely to be of interest to
humanities faculty members and some of them may also be useful
in classes. Will you please share this email with appropriate members
of the faculty?
Thank you again for your interest in the Symposium.
Sincerely yours,
Richard Ekman
President
Council of Independent Colleges
One Dupont Circle, NW
Suite 320
Washington, DC 20036