Think clearly. Act well. Appreciate life.
Two hugely important words pertaining to humanities scholarship are “media” and “environment.” Hence, our 2013 Winter Symposium will focus on the digital and environmental humanities. We have an outstanding lineup of speakers—you are sure to find their talks stimulating—and we hope you will attend.
That the present era of “big data” should be characterized by a spirit of pragmatism may seem surprising after so many decades of “big theory” about the impact of new technologies. Scholars have grown familiar with arguments concerning the effects of the information age on what it means to be human: Donna Haraway’s 1985 treatise …