Professor Michael Wood (English, Princeton), 'Film and the Art of Forgetting'. Paper delivered at CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
Professor Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature, Yale), 'Explaining vs. Understanding: A Distinction Under Changing Conditions'. Paper delivered at CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
Professor James Chandler (English, Chicago), 'Are Humanities Disciplines Progressive?'. Paper delivered at CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
Professor Roger Parker (Music, KCL), 'Should We Forget about (Musical) Form?' Paper delivered at CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
Professor Sarah Kay (Modern Languages, Princeton), 'Outside National Frames (The Troubadours and the Mediterranean)'. Paper delivered at CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
Professor Catharine Stimpson (NYU), 'Public Forum: The Humanities Today'. The forum was part of the CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
Professor Don Randel (President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), 'Public Forum: The Humanities Today'. The forum was part of the CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
Dame Elizabeth Forgan (Arts Council of England), 'Public Forum: The Humanities Today'. The forum was part of the CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009)
Dame Marilyn Strathern, 'Innovation or replication? Crossing and Criss-crossing in Social Science'. Paper delivered at CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
Professor Quentin Skinner (History, Queen Mary, University of London), 'From Ideals to Ideologies: Reflections on the 'Cambridge School' of Intellectual History'. Paper delivered at CRASSH conference 'Changing the Humanities/the Humanities Changing' (July 2009).
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About Changing the Humanities
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Changing the Humanities / The Humanities Changing - The Humanities past and present - July 2009
Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, Changing the Humanities/The Humanities Changing is a major international conference designed to inquire into the current standing and disciplinary formation of the Humanities today. Leading critical thinkers from Cambridge and elsewhere will take stock of the changing role and significance of the Humanities, inside and outside the university. The event aims to look both comparatively and historically at the Arts, Humanities, and interpretative Social Sciences, including the ways in which they relate to Science and Technology. Offering a wide range of thematic panels and public discussions, the conference will also ask how the Humanities contribute to understanding societ