The New Humanities
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The New Humanities
April 13, 2023
An article by Volunteer Stories, a production of UT’s Office of Communication & Marketing, is highlighting the work done by the UT Humanities Center. “The New Humanities, UT is paving the way for a new humanities movement that will make life and lives better” is an in-depth look at how the Center crosses disciplines to offer an enriching and deeply analytical view of human life and culture.
An excerpt from the article
What can people learn from the arts and humanities today, in a world focused on the bottom line? Amy Elias has a list:
• To pay attention and analyze closely
• To use language to communicate effectively
• To form connection to histories and cultures within the global environment
• To apply ethics, logic, and reason to examine human values“This is what the humanities have always taught and always invested in, and these are also the values and skills of the new economy,” says Elias, director of the University of Tennessee Humanities Center since 2017.
The humanities today offer the public new ways to engage with the past and the present, connecting humanities research with fields such as medicine, energy studies, environmental studies, and data studies and expanding the impact of arts, literature, and history into local communities.
A talk with UT Humanities Center’s Digital Scholarship Librarian Joshua Ortiz Baco
Joshua Ortiz Baco, assistant professor and digital scholarship librarian of the Scholars’ Collaborative at the University of Tennessee, discusses digital humanities research, the Humanities Center, and how faculty and students are engaging in this emerging field.