humanities Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/humanities/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:19:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 “The Education of Bruno Latour: From the Critical Zone to the Anthropocene” Feature-Length Documentary https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/the-education-of-bruno-latour-from-the-critical-zone-to-the-anthropocene-unlisted/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:46:39 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3760 Celebrated French philosopher Bruno Latour travels with Duke University Critical Zone scientist Daniel D. Richter, PhD to the John C....

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]]> The New Humanities? https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/the-new-humanities/ Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:23:15 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3598 In this essay, I examine the future state of the humanities, as has been done by others many times in the past, but in the context of the current positioning of the university and the future world to come as they pivot toward a quantifiable and technological future that conforms to STEM models.

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]]> What Water Teaches: Wissenschaft in the Age of Sea Level Rise https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/what-water-teaches-wissenschaft-in-the-age-of-sea-level-rise/ Thu, 24 May 2018 18:57:23 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3178 Does the sense of urgency occasioned by global warming and sea level rise have the power to reshape the humanities? Insofar as sea level rise will affect thousands of institutions of education and culture in coastal cities, the answer is yes.

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]]> Persian Literature and Educating the Whole Person https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/persian-literature-and-educating-the-whole-person/ Fri, 18 May 2018 14:31:57 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3165 I suggest that students can learn to use emotional and aesthetic intelligence as a means of living healthier and more balanced lives and that ancient artistic and literary masterpieces are intellectual tools that revive and nourish our ability to pause, look closely, and ponder. I further suggest that, more often than not, seeking questions is more important than finding answers.

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