By Earl Lewis. To grow investment for the humanities, we must start with a clear sense of narrative backed up by solid data, says Earl Lewis. Three quarters of a century ago, Virginia Woolf posed the question: if you had just three guineas to share, what would you support?
In each age we face ostensibly insurmountable challenges that require choices to be made, resources to be allocated and areas to be ignored. This is particularly the case in the US, which has seen an explosion in the number of registered philanthropic organisations, as well as a rethinking of what it means to be philanthropic. According to the Foundation Center, 81,777 foundations and charitable entities dot the US social landscape. More...

La Maison des sciences de l'Homme Lorraine a retenu 14 projets de recherche interdisciplinaires à l'issue de son appel à projet "Blanc" 2013. Ils vont tous intégrer le programme scientifique de l'établissement en 2014.
Étudier les évolutions du travail des professionnels de l'accompagnement des allocataires du RSA, procéder à un encodage XML de 300 actes médiévaux de l'époque du règne de Ferry III de Lorraine, s'intéresser à la manière dont se développe connaissance de soi et conscience de soi… Voici quelques-uns des 14 projets de recherche interdisciplinaires retenus dans le cadre de l'appel à projets "Blanc" 2013 de la MSH Lorraine. Destinés à " aborder des questions sociétales clés à partir du regard des sciences humaines et sociales ", ces nouveaux projets couvrent les six axes de recherche de la MSH. Ils sont sélectionnés notamment pour leur qualité scientifique, la pertinence des moyens techniques et technologiques utilisés, leur originalité et leur interdisciplinarité. Suite...

Welcome to HASTAC 2014, the 6th international conference for the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory.   HASTAC 2014 will be hosted by the Ministerio Cultura of Lima, Peru, making this event the first HASTAC conference to be hosted outside of North America. 
12/20/13 - Flights to Lima are very low right now. If you plan on attending HASTAC 2014, consider purchasing a ticket now, rather than closer to the event. 
Questions or comments can be sent to/ Para preguntas y comentarios, por favor dirigirse a: conference-team@hastac.org. 
Call For Proposals 
Hemispheric Pathways: Critical Makers in International Networks
April 24-27, 2014 Ministerio de Cultura, Lima, Peru
Submissions Deadline: 5:00 p.m. EST, November 30, 2013
Proposal Submission
The challenges facing the Western hemisphere are multidimensional  and complex.  Urban agglomeration, economic development, ecological crisis, military conflict, digital privacy, impediments to advanced learning, negotiations of multiple cultural and historical perspectives—these are problems with scientific and human factors that must be considered together.  HASTAC 2014 challenges participants to consider the interplay of science, technology, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts in the context of addressing the urgent contingencies facing the evolving hemisphere.  Themes addressed by the conference include:
– humanities research and hemispheric grand challenges
– indigenous culture and technology
– technology and education–open learning, peer learning, and issues of access, equity for primary and/or higher education
– technology and interhemispheric communication of knowledge and publishing
– Heritage, Patrimony, Memory and the Digital
– new publics, movements going global and communities of the future
– technology and social identity and roles:  gender, race, and other identities
– digital animation and other visualization media arts and sciences
– games and gaming, including for learning
– community development including the importance of art and culture districts
– Mobile technologies and everyday life
– Improvisation, tinkering, hacking
HASTAC 2014 will be composed of keynote addresses, paper presentations (variations detailed below), hackathons, workshops, birds of a feather meet ups, as well as performances and tech demos.

Learning the Future Together
HASTAC is an alliance of more than 11,500 humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning for the 21st century.
Since 2002, HASTAC (“haystack”) has served as a community of connection where members share news, tools, research, insights, and projects to promote engaged learning for a global society. Issues of access and equality are as important to HASTAC’s mission as the latest technological  innovations; creative contribution is as important as critical thinking. Keywords include learning and teaching, education design, digital humanities, media, communication, social engagement, and the collaborative workplace. We are dedicated to sharing information, ideas, and practices about the future of learning. Read more...