Team 3 -- Sydney, Phi, Sonia, Melani

How is the humanities represented in other areas of public discourse (for example, how do the humanities factor into a discussion of, say, climate change)?

Topics Viewed:17, 22, 18, 37, 31, 

Topic 37

-Kids have a voice now, not necessarily humanities

-Bringing awareness to topics that aren’t predominant in culture

-Child’s view of the humanities

The humanities play a weak-tie role

-Connects multiple fields together, the glue of the family

Topic 18 Rhetoric around the stock market facilitates the price

-Saying positive things about the stocks, economic gains

-Utilizing word bubbles

Frameworks of analysis

Topics 17 and 22

The idea of space: to exhibit art

-Awareness and economics

-Who gets to dictate what is art in this exhibit?

-Mediating what is relevant and what is not

-Most mentions of "humanities" just to describe someone's title or event 

Topic 31

• "Google and the Victorians: The History Goes Way Back"
• How technology and help transform humanities scholarship
• Using Boolean logic (e.g., using key words to retrieve documents) to mime database of English books published in 19th C to uncover new insights into Victorian mind 

Topic 42

• "203 Writers, 28 Homes, One Federal City" 
• Website called DC Writers' Homes offers way to "teach history through real estate and make it more accessible to people  

Outside Sources

Why Science and the Humanities are Better Together 

• What made Jobs, Einstein, and Franklin so successful was that they were “both”

• They weren't just one thing

• Walter Isaacson- Jefferson Lecture is the highest award to the humanities

• The sciences have nothing to teach us about history, it's the humanities that touch our soul

• No it's the people can do both, and connect both

• If you can stand at that intersection, that's where the creativity occurs- Polaroid inventor

• Vitruvian man-science connects us to the humanities and vice versa

• Einstein made science seem intimidating

• You can take 4 years at Harvard and think you had a good education but they never take a science class

• Humanities should try to understand sciences the same way sciences expect it from humanities

• Clear programming knowledge is crucial, just as crucial to learning latin

• In the digital age, computers can do almost everything besides being creating, imaginative, and thinking not Artificial Intelligence

• Walter Isaacson “The Innovators”

• Ada Lovelace; a computer can weave patterns involves both poetry and processing

• With the internet different people with different talents can collaborate

• Artists and technicians

• Maybe if we make into our heroes that people who are imaginative and can create beauty and do “both”

• The interface between human and tech will always do more than either by themselves, a more successful encounter

• Intimate connection/combination

• What benefits do humanists have for defending science/scientific method?

• Let the experiment be made 

The Hector Hypothesis: Disciplines, Difficulty, and Democracy   

Lessons from the Humanities and Social Sciences  

• "focus on the lasting challenges relevant to all of us: creating lives of purpose and meaning, appreciating diversity and complexity, communicating effectively with others and overcoming adversity."

• "Most successful careers, including in technology and engineering, do not result simply from technical knowledge. They require leadership skills, social and emotional intelligence, cultural understanding, a capacity for strategic decision-making and a global perspective."

• "Our universities should develop students with skills and capacities that will serve them well in multiple settings and cultivate a passion for lifelong learning, which they will need to thrive in a world requiring constant adaptation."

• “we collectively need to get away from inflexible, binary choices. The crucial issue is not whether a student will be a “science and technology person” or a “humanities and social sciences person,””

Why Your Organization Needs a Writing Center   

• “The Philadelphia Fed hired Jessica Weber to improve the bank examiners’ writing, focusing on ways to make it more efficient and succinct, streamline the review process, and generally make the documents clearer and more effective.”

Climate Change and the Humanities: A Case for the Arts

•  "The Cape Farewell Project leads Arctic expeditions with artists, scientists, and journalists, in hopes of increasing environmental awareness and engaging the public and schools in more fruitful debates about climate change." 

What Role Can the Humanities Play in Tackling Climate Change?  

• "To confront climate change, our experts said, we must reach back into our past for cultural and historical context, think critically and communicate effectively in the present, and prioritize the consequences our actions will have for future generations. This is where the humanities comes in." 

Conclusions:

• Goal is to move away from binary choices of STEM vs Humanities disciplines
• Humanities play a weak-tie role and can connect multiple fields together  
• Humanities can improve work environments and processes 
• Humanities can provide context to help understand science and technology issues 

Possible Approaches/Recommendations 

• Timeline of programs/majors/disciplines added to universities and business that aim to bridge STEM and Humanities