4Humanities’s The Humanities Matter! infographic — with arguments and statistics for why the humanities matter — has been updated! It can be downloaded as a large, vertical PDF file or image file (or as production files to facilitate adapting it under its open license). Professor Madeleine Sorapure — Teaching Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and an Associate Dean in UCSB’s Division of Undergraduate Education in the College of Letters & Science — undertook the task of updating the infographic (originally created in 2014 by 4Humanities with the University College ..read more

In fall 2022, students in Professor Christine Henseler’s sophomore research seminar at Union College on “Arts and Humanities: Don’t Leave College Without Them” created for their final project a Shout Out for the Humanities campaign in the shape of essays, infographics, or other public-facing narratives. One creative group of students (branding themselves STC Productions) produced a video montage in which they gauged students’ understanding of the meaning of the arts and humanities. They stopped fellow students all around campus and asked, “what’s the humanities?” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What they found out ..read more

CSUN’s local chapter of 4Humanities holds monthly meetings that include scholarly discussion of the current state of the humanities and advocacy options; communicates with other local chapters to participate in 4Humanities events; contributes to the 4Humanities website through blog posts and article suggestions; and holds an annual colloquium with a relevant keynote speaker (budget allowing). Members can contribute to the 4Humanities organization by blogging, keeping an online journal, researching and sharing articles, and/or fundraising. Additionally, CSUN’s local 4Humanities chapter showcas ..read more

The following organizations or initiatives have agreed to be affiliates of 4Humanities: ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations) centerNet (International network of Digital Humanities Centers) HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) CSDH/SCHN (Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques) The following organizations are supporting 4Humanities with sponsorship: CIRCA (Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts) ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing) ACH (Association for Compute ..read more

This branch of the 4Humanities site is a staging ground for collaboration among digital humanists willing to contribute to “powering advocacy of the humanities” through their special expertise. Included here is the current work plan and task sheet for the site, with room for contributors to volunteer their help ..read more

The digital humanities provide a powerful resource for assisting in the creation, presentation, and circulation of advocacy for the humanities. They are themselves one of the premier examples today of how the humanities share interests across disciplines and around the world with scientists, engineers, business people, professionals in all fields, and others who use digital technologies and media to contribute to society ..read more

Gathered here is a stockpile of resources to aid in the creation, presentation, and circulation of effective advocacy—including recommendations for online platforms and digital tools, site designs, royalty-free graphics and images, customizable newsfeeds or other dynamic materials, and so on. Initially, “Resources for Advocacy” will be a collection of posts about digital resources. Later, it will present a more structured guide to how digital technologies can assist in advocating the humanities–for example: A changing “top five” recommendation list of resources to consider in each of the fo ..read more

The following checklist of 4Humanities tasks and volunteers (including volunteers for both technical and content tasks) is organized roughly according to the 4Humanities web site structure. If you are already a member of the 4Humanities collective and have “editor” permissions on the site, please volunteer for indicated tasks or add/revise tasks. If you are not a member of the 4Humanities collective and have an idea for a project or task, you can leave a comment here. Or, you can join us as a contributing member by sending an email to Alan Liu (ayliu@english.ucsb.edu ..read more

Important recent studies and publications on the present, past, and future of the humanities around the world and in particular nations and states ..read more

4Humanities solicits ideas and suggestions for effective advocacy of the humanities from the humanities community and the public.  Both specific ideas for projects or resources, and broader ideas for the best approach to the problem, are welcome. Please add your ideas by leaving a comment here.  (You may also be interested in the task sheet we use to track main development and other tasks along with volunteers.  If you wish to volunteer for a task, you can add a comment on the task sheet page ..read more