Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research
at Columbia University

Chad Wellmon

LECTURE at 6:15pm on 10 Dec 2014
⌖ Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

We need a history and vision of the humanities capacious enough to see them not as a particular method or set of disciplines but as a disposition, as a way of engaging the world.

On Method: The Humanities in Full: Polemics Against the Two-Culture Fallacy

If the recent diatribes against the digital humanities have done anything, they have demonstrated how truncated and ahistorical most of our conceptions of the humanities are. We need a history and vision of the humanities capacious enough to see them not as a particular method or set of disciplines but as a disposition, as a way of engaging the world. This talk sketches what such a history might look like and what it might accomplish.

Event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served

More info: http://heymancenter.org/events/on-method-the-specificity-of-scientific-knowledge-in-the-18th-century/