Public Humanities
Welcome to IDEAS
August 1st, 2017
IDEAS is a new platform for CHCI, reflecting the current state of the Consortium. Sara Guyer explains how CHCI always has been devoted to ideas—new and old, familiar and strange—opening a rare space in which experimentation in institutional forms and forms of knowledge overlaps.
Going Downtown: The Necessity and Hazards of Telling the Public about Humanities Research
July 1st, 2001
In this 2001 CHCI Working Paper, J. Paul Hunter argues that addressing the problem of public perception for arts and humanities research involves setting aside the direct goals of funding in favor of the less visible ones of social value and cultural support.