Category: Birthday

• Teaching and Learning with the Commons

  A core value for me, as a scholar, is the open exchange of ideas—among scholars and among the public. Implementing this value requires access and transparency. As gratified as I’ve been, over the past decade or so, to see the growth of open-access publication and the democratized dissemination of knowledge, I have been increasingly dismayed…

• Humanities Commons and the Cultivation of Sustainable Communities

  This post originally appeared on Christopher P. Long’s blog, and  is cross-posted from there. As we navigate the intense period of transformation in human communication through which we are living, identifying ways to nurture sustainable communities through which scholarship can be shared, discovered, and enhanced gains urgency. So many of the platforms through which we might…

• Happy Birthday Humanities Commons

  This is a guest post by Brett Bobley, the Chief Information Officer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is cross-posted from the blog of the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities. “It’s like arXiv, but for the humanities.” What? Say that again? “It’s like arXiv, but for the humanities.” So my memory isn’t perfect,…

• Why I Share My Work in CORE

  What does it mean for the humanities to be invisible in the digital age? We often bemoan the fact that our disciplines are under-valued, under-funded, and downtrodden. Yet do we not, as academics, ourselves hold some responsibility for this situation?

• Between Disciplines on the Commons

  What is the relationship between the humanities in the university and the “public” in the public square? This is a question we tackle daily as art historians. Scholars who deal in visual culture-related subjects are often looked to to define, and even to model, public engagement in reconciling the arts. Seemingly the environments that art…

• This Year

  It’s been a year. I find myself saying that a lot lately, for reasons that you can probably imagine. Much about the last year has been disheartening, infuriating, anxiety-producing. But a few good things stand out, and one of them has been the extraordinary first year of Humanities Commons.