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General Resources on the Public Humanities
- American
Academy of Arts and Sciences: Initiative for the Arts and
Humanities ("If the creation and study of culture
are to be appreciated for the importance of their contribution
to the vitality of our society, it is incumbent upon those
who will advance the argument to understand the significance
of the forces affecting their place in the nation's life—and
to explicate the importance of the humanities and culture
to a wide range of audiences")
- American Arts
Alliance ("advocate for America's professional
nonprofit arts organizations and their publics in representing
arts interests and advancing arts support before Congress
and other branches of the Federal government")
- American
Assembly Report on "The Arts and Public Policy in the
United States" (1984) ("We view with admiration
the European traditions of funding in which governments
have historically made strong public commitments to the
arts, but as the arts in the United States have matured
we find that the dynamic relationship between public and
private funding sources is more suited for the development
of creativity and talent throughout our own diverse and
plural society")
- American Memory: Historical
Collections for the National Digital Library (multimedia
collections from the U.S. Library of Congress designed to
showcase the history, arts, and letters of the nation to
the public) (Library of Congress)
- Americans for the Arts
("works with cultural organizations, arts and business
leaders and individuals to provide leadership, education
and information that will encourage support for the arts
and culture in our nation’s communities"; includes
the Advancing
Communities Through the Arts Project)
- Consortium of Humanities
Centers and Institutes
- Imagining America:
Artists and Scholars in Public Life ("new national
consortium of colleges, universities, and cultural institutions
dedicated to supporting the civic work of university artists,
humanists, and designers"; launched with the aid of
the White
House Millennium Council) (U. Michigan)
- National Endowment for
the Arts (U.S.)
- National Endowment for the
Humanities (U.S.) (see espcially Extending
the Reach of the Humanities Across America initiative)
- National Humanities
Alliance ("nonpartisan coalition working to unify
public interest in support of federal [U.S.] programs in
the humanities")
- National Humanities Institute
("promotes research, publishing, and teaching in the
humanities, with emphasis on the ethical preconditions and
purposes of culture and society, the centrality of personal
freedom and creativity, and the historical nature of human
existence")
- President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities ("created
by Presidential Executive Order in 1982 to encourage private
sector support and to increase public appreciation of the
value of the arts and the humanities, through projects,
publications and meetings") (U.S.)
- Public
Culture and Humanities Research in Australia: A Report
(abstract of essay by Meaghan Morris and Iain McCalman)
(Public Culture 11.2)
- White
House Millennium Council (cooperates with U.S. federal,
state and local governments to "encourage a wide variety
of projects and events that celebrate our historical and
cultural legacy and stimulate fresh thinking about the challenges
and opportunities of the 21st century")
- Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation ("supports education in the
liberal arts because public life must be informed by the
sustained and rigorous acts of thinking that a great education
sponsors and exercises"; motto: "Honor the Past—Imagine
the Future")
- Kathleen Woodward (U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Chair, Consortium
of Humanities Centers and Institutes), "The
Future of the Government/University Partnership: The Humanities
and Arts" (1997) (U. Michigan Year of the Humanities
Initiative)
The Humanities and Other Social Sectors
- Business
- Palinurus:
The Academy and the Corporation (resources on the
relation between the higher education and postindustrial
business principles and corporations; covers theory
and criticism of business, higher education, and information
technology; includes section on Business
Portrayed in the Arts) (Alan Liu, English Dept.,
U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Golden Gate U. B.A.
in Business and Humanities ("combines the fundamentals
of business, the intellectual richness of the humanities
and the cultural insights of the social sciences")
(Golden Gate U., San Francisco)
- Entertainment
- Health Industry
- American Society for
Bioethics and Humanities
- Center
for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
(State U. of New York, Buffalo)
- Center for
Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences (Michigan
State U.)
- Confronting
Cancer Through Art (Arthur Ross Gallery, U. Pennsylvania)
- Institute for
the Medical Humanities (U. Texas Medical Branch)
- Journal
of Medical Humanities (tables of contents only)
- Literature
and Medicine (journal; requires institutional
subscription to Project Muse, Johns Hopkins U. Press)
- The
Literature and Medicine Group (State U. of New York,
Stony Brook)
- Medical
Humanities (New York U. School of Medicine)
- Society
for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy (Center for
the Study of Bioethics, Medical C. of Wisconsin)
- Time Slips
(innovative project in which artists and caregivers
lead people with Alzheimer's disease in storytelling
workshops; "Can people with Alzheimer's Disease,
whose memories and communication skills have broken
down, tap into the power of creativity to express themselves?
What might be the rewards, if any?") (Anne Basting
/ U. Milwaukee Center for Twentieth Century Studies)
- U.
Texas, Houston, Program on Humanities and Technology
in Health Care
- Information Technology
- Center for Information
Technology and Society (research center that explores
the relations between information technology and society,
politics, business, education, and culture) (U. California,
Santa Barbara)
- CHORUS:
Exploring New Media in the Arts & Humanities
- EDUCAUSE ("Transforming
Education Through Information Technologies")
- Humanities
and Arts on the Information Highway (Coalition for
Networked Information, Assoc. of Research Libraries
/ EDUCAUSE)
- Palinurus:
The Academy and the Corporation (Alan Liu, English
Dept., U. California, Santa Barbara)
- RFC
2150: "Humanites and Arts: Sharing Center Stage
on the Internet" (Request for Comment,"
is the acronym for the set of standard-setting technical
documents that were crucial to the creation of the Internet;
this is the RFC for the Humanities and Arts: "The
intended audience is practicing artists, scholars, related
professionals, and others whose knowledge, expertise
and support is important to ensuring that the Arts and
Humanities are well-placed in the global information
infrastructure")
- Law
- Media
- Philanthropy
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: "The
Foundation's Role in Support of the Humanities"
- Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance: Promotion of the Humanities:
Public Programs (U.S.)
- National
Center for Charitable Statistics: Arts, Culture, and
Humanities ("Private nonprofit organizations
whose primary purpose is to promote appreciation for
and enjoyment and understanding of the visual, performing,
folk, and media arts; the humanities [archaeology, art
history, modern and classical languages, philosophy,
ethics, theology, and comparative religion]; history
and historical events; and/or communications [film,
video, publishing, journalism, radio, television]")
- President's
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities ("private
sector support for the arts and humanities and public
appreciation of their value through projects, publications
and meetings") (U.S.)
- The Humanities Across the
Generations
- Children and the Humanities
- Aging and the Humanities
- The
Arts and Older Americans (collection of
essays originally published as a monography by Amercians
for the Arts) (National Endowment for the Arts,
U.S.)
- The Center
on Aging, Health and Humanities (George Washington
U. Medical Center)
- HUMAGE-L (listserv on the humanistic aspects of
aging) (subscribe at listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
- Internet
and E-Mail Resoures on Aging: Humanities and Arts
(Administration on Aging, U.S. Dept. of Health &
Human Services)
- Journal
of Aging and Identity (peer-reviewed periodical
that examines aging as "presented in the humanities
[including such fields as literature, history, philosophy,
religion, ethics, cultural anthropology, and law],
popular culture, and the arts"; tables of contents
only)
- Time
Slips (innovative project in which artists and
caregivers lead people with Alzheimer's disease
in storytelling workshops; "Can people with
Alzheimer's Disease, whose memories and communication
skills have broken down, tap into the power of creativity
to express themselves? What might be the rewards,
if any?") (Anne Basting / U. Milwaukee Center
for Twentieth Century Studies)
- Kathleen Woodward (U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Telling
Stories" (.pdf file) (1997; Woodward's
paper on "Telling Stories: Aging, Reminiscence,
and the Life Review" followed by responses
from panelists) (Occasional Papers of the Doreen
B. Townsend Center for the Humanities)
- Robert E. Yahnke (U. Minnesota)
The Global Public and the Humanities
- Scholars
at Risk Network ("aims to aid scholars outside
the United States whose work is threatened by mass or individual
displacement, discrimination, censorship, harassment, intimidation,
or violence") (Human Rights Program, U. Chicago)
- World Humanities
Survey (database of themes, projects, conferences, and
inquiries conducted by humanities institutions and centers
around the world) (Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities,
U. California, Berkeley)
Public Humanities Initiatives at Other
Universities & Localities
- The Chicago Humanities
Festival (annual November festival that "brings
together novelists, scholars, musicians, artists, poets,
policy makers, and others to offer presentations around
a theme of universal interest, such as Crime & Punishment,
Work & Play, or He/She")
- H.O.T.—Humanities
Out There (outreach and literacy program bridging between
the School of Humanities as U. California, Irvine, and local
schools)
- Northern Arizona U., Public
Humanities B.A. Program
- Ohio State U., Institute
for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
- Pennsylvania
Humanities Council: Public Humanities Programs
- U. California, Berkeley, New
Visions From the Arts and Humanities at Berkeley
- U. Chicago, Cultural
Policy Program (see especially 1999 conference on "The
Arts and Humanities in Public Life," which includes
full-text of papers)
- U. Michigan
- Arts
of Citizenship Program ("Through collaborative
public projects, innovative scholarly work, and experimental
teaching, Arts of Citizenship builds bridges between
the university and the larger community")
- YOHA:
Year of Humanities & Arts ("outreach across
schools, units, and disciplines: outreach from humanists
and artists to their colleagues in law, medicine, social
work, natural resources, information studies, public
policy research and numerous other fields")
The Contemporary "Intellectual"
- Intellectuals
(bibliography of print and online resources from Palinurus:
The Academy and the Corporation) (Alan Liu, English Dept.,
U. California, Santa Barbara)
Controversies, Collisions, and Negotiations
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