What's Wrong and What's Right with the Standard Defences for the Humanities?

Event Date: 

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 12:45pm

Event Location: 

  • University of Oxford
  • Seminar Room
  • Radcliffe Humanities
  • Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

Event Contact: 

  • Talk

Series Title: Humanities and the Public Good

Session/Panel: What's Wrong and What's Right with the Standard Defences for the Humanities?

Panel Speakers: Professor Helen Small, Professor Isobel Armstrong, Professor John Guillory, Professor Chris Newfield

 

Talk Title: Humanities Unbound

A discussion about where the arguments we tend to rely upon to defend the public value of the Humanities work well, and where they need rethinking or letting go.

The talk will start at 13:00, with a light lunch at 12:45

Registration is not essential, but we recommend you register to guarantee a seat.