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The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species?
'The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species?' This is the question being asked at a major event to take place in Cambridge on 25 February at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Georgina Born, Professor of Music and Anthropology in the Faculty of
Music, will act as a chair and respondent.
The current reforms to education suggest that it is no longer self-evident that universities should be funded on the basis of being significant cultural institutions, existing for the public good. This event seeks to articulate why and how the arts and humanities have been historically understood to matter, and how the symbiotic structure of teaching, research and practice enable universities to have an extraordinary cultural reach. Over the course of one morning, ten eminent speakers from across the Arts and Humanities will each offer a seven-minute perspective on their relationship to the Arts and Humanities, both professionally and personally. The event will be introduced by Professor Michael Kenny, recent Visiting Fellow at CRASSH, whose research - What are Universities for? Interrogating the Assumptions of Current and Future Higher Education Policy in the UK - will inform the debate.
The underlying objective of the conference is to reconsider the notion of value in the Arts and Humanities beyond the merely fiscal. Ultimately the event aims to produce a map of values, equipping us to understand more clearly what will happen if these subjects become subject to the market.
'The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species?'
Date: Friday 25 February 2011
Time: 09.30 - 14.00
Location: CRASSH, Cambridge University, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX