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DESCRIPTION:"A war against the humanities"\; a "crisis of the humanities"\;
  "'Young people are being sold a false dream': PM vows to crack down on so-
 called rip-off 'Mickey Mouse' degrees"\; "the humanities are facing a credi
 bility crisis": the news headlines of recent months in the United Kingdom a
 nd the United States.\n\nDebates have raged over whether the latest crisis 
 of the humanities is rhetoric or reality. In either case\, perceptions matt
 er\, and such perceptions have real consequences.\n\nSo what should be done
 ?\n\nThis lecture will explore recent efforts in the UK to defend and reinv
 ent the humanities\, to imagine and then make real a new vision for and pro
 minence of the humanities in public life. It will examine whether these eff
 orts are bearing fruit and where the opportunities and challenges lie. It w
 ill argue for a more confident\, bold approach to the humanities that moves
  beyond the defensive and resistant.\n\nAbout the Speaker\nJo Fox is the Pr
 o Vice Chancellor (Research and Engagement) and Dean\, School of Advanced S
 tudy\, University of London. The School of Advanced Study is the UK’s natio
 nal center for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities
 . It has eight specialist research institutes and four internationally reco
 gnized research libraries\, and organizes the UK’s only Festival of Humanit
 ies research\, Being Human.\n\nPrior to her current role\, Fox was the firs
 t female Director of the Institute of Historical Research\, first female Pr
 ofessor of Modern History and first female Head of Department at Durham Uni
 versity\, where she began her academic career in 1999. She is an expert in 
 propaganda\, mis- and disinformation and rumor\, and has published widely o
 n this subject\, as well as running several high-profile grants\, most rece
 ntly on the anatomy of COVID vaccine disinformation.\n\nShe has previously 
 served as the Honorary Communications Director of the Royal Historical Soci
 ety. She is a National Teaching Fellow (2007)\, a Fellow of the Royal Histo
 rical Society (FRHistS)\, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Manufacture
 s and the Arts (FRSA). She has recently concluded a term on the early caree
 r research panel at the Wellcome Trust.\n\nAbout the Series\nAll This Risin
 g: The Humanities in the Next Ten Years features ideas and methods that wil
 l mark new paths for the humanities in the next decade. Visitors present th
 eir work in both unmediated and "meta" modes. They consider the motives and
  conventions of the work in progress\, how it converses with its discipline
 \, and what it portends for the humanities.
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LOCATION:Stanford Humanties Center\, Levinthal Hall
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SUMMARY:Jo Fox | Humanities Futures
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URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/jo_fox_humanities_futures
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