Use the humanities to bridge cultural divisions, say UBC profs
Associate Professor Brigitte Le Normand, director of the Okanagan hub, says this initiative is designed to bring the university’s brightest thinkers from the humanities together to explore emerging public policy questions.
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Author, researcher and history professor Brigitte Le Normand is a champion of public humanities on the UBC Okanagan campus.
“The humanities are critical to addressing issues like climate change. We’re a tech-driven society that looks to science to solve all our problems, but a lot of these issues have a large human or social dimension to them, and that can’t be ignored.”
Public Humanities Hub Student Representatives Needed
The PHH-O is searching for undergraduate and graduate student representatives for its Steering Committee and various Task Forces this Academic Year 2019-2020.
The power of visual anthropology
Fiona McDonald, assistant professor of anthropology, talks about visual anthropology in undergraduate courses that explore how peoples and cultures are represented through art, photography, film and digital media
Chasing the Whale
Greg Garrard is the tidal force behind the environmental literature course In Pursuit of the Whale, where students examine works relating to whales and whaling.
The pull of academia carves a pathway for digital humanities prof
FCCS prof Emily Murphy pursues ideas through technologies such as linked data, looking at how we can describe culture and the relationships between entities — people, places, things, or events.
Humanities for the People
UBC Vancouver – With a mandate to highlight and to develop public-facing humanities research, the UBC Public Humanities Hub was announced as a pilot project earlier this year and officially launches this October.