Humanities Watch

Do you find more need these days to voice the value of the humanities?

A new website and newsletter offers help. Who watches the watchmen, who guards the guardians? If the humanities are central to the history of our schools, and thus our way of life, do they stand watch over our leading concerns, for example in business, science, and technology? Do these concerns have a role in fostering the humanities? How do the humanities survey themselves? Humanities Watch, a major new project, addresses these questions, supporting a conversation among fields of diverse experience in order to understand their shared responsibilities. The website is hosted and edited by Timothy Kircher, Professor of History and Chair of Humanities at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. Humanities Watch provides timely news articles and commentary on the place of the humanities in the modern world; observations and conversations on ways the humanities serve, or fail to serve, the greater good; quotes from thinkers, old and new, about how the humanities relate to our lives; video clips of interviews and talks by major proponents of the humanities; and recommendations of other valuable resources. This is an outstanding resource for finding what you need to promote the humanities in your own milieu! Sign up for the biweekly newsletter.