A New Field:<i>History of Humanities</i>

Bod, Rens; Kursell, Julia; Maat, Jaap; Weststeijn, Thijs

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“…For example, in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, A & H is defined in terms of "scholarship," "the study of" and "branches of creative activity" (Art, n.d.; Humanity, n.d.). Similarly, Bod et al (2016) uses "practices" and "objects of study" as terms in his description of the humanities. Finally, professional organizations describe A & H as "study and application" (United States Congress, 2014, p. 2) and as "modes of expression" (American Council of Learned Societies, 1964, p. 1).…”

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“…One of the ways an A & H field is frequently conceptualized is through a set of academic disciplines. Although the attempt to specify precisely which disciplines belong to A & H has gone through many iterations throughout Western history (Bod, Kursell, Maat, & Weststeijn, 2016), its conceptualization as a distinct group of disciplines appears from the time of Cicero and continues into the 15th-century Italian Renaissance (Proctor, 1998), and through later institutionalization by Western universities (Armitage et al, 2013; Harvard Task Force on the Arts, 2008; Kernan, 2014; Mathae, Langrehr, & Birzer, 2004). Thus, the academic disciplines of A & H may include traditional disciplines such as classical languages and literature, history, and philosophy (Levi, 1983; Proctor, 1998) and also more contemporary disciplines such as modern languages, linguistics, jurisprudence, archeology, comparative religion, ethics, and criticism and theory of arts (United States Congress, 2014).…”

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Arts and Humanities Engagement: An Integrative Conceptual Framework for Psychological Research

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Tay

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Review of General Psychology

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From ancient times to the current digital era, the arts and humanities have been a significant part of human experience. They have played important roles in education, leisure, and work for people across diverse backgrounds and cultures, present in their lives from the cradle to the grave. This ubiquity of the arts and humanities in human life has also made them a topic of interest for psychologists. For more than a century, psychologists have conducted theoretical and empirical research on the psychological processes of engaging with art (Tinio & Smith, 2017). More recently, there has also been a call for a humanities approach to psychology that investigates human subjectivity (Teo, 2017). Furthermore, several divisions of the American Psychological Association such as the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Division 10); the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24); the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Division 36) along with their accompanying peer-reviewed journals are devoted to the promotion of scholarship in this area. This indicates that both the arts and the humanities have substantive psychological significance in our lives. Despite this interest in the psychology of the arts and the humanities, however, our field lacks an integrative understanding of what it means to engage with the arts and humanities. Although psychological research has been undertaken on various forms of arts and humanities such as music, visual arts, literature, film, dance, and theater (Reiter-Palmon & Tinio, 2018; Smith & Tinio, 2014), this work is not grounded in a robust conceptualization of arts and humanities engagement as a whole. One of the core challenges to scientific progress in this area is the lack of a common language and an integrative conceptual framework that can be used across disciplines (Stickley et al., 2017). To better understand the psychological effects of engaging with the arts and humanities, we must first begin with a systematic and integrative approach to its conceptualization and operationalization (Tay, Pawelski, & Keith, 2018). Many scholars and organizations in the arts and humanities (e.g.

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Arts and Humanities Engagement: An Integrative Conceptual Framework for Psychological Research

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“…16 Journals like this one also hope to be 'a forum for interdisciplinary encounters'; 17 and the recently created History of Humanities claims to move into a new field of study, on the basis of both the global approach and the cross-fertilization between disciplines. 18 Current debates on interdisciplinarity as a form of knowledge organization often involve distinctions (between multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research) and different methodological approaches (instrumental or epistemological), depending on the focus and orientation of the research (empirical or theoretical). 19 Implicit in these debates is the assumption that varying degrees of collaboration go hand in hand with the success of the research, celebrating integration and convergence between disciplines over collaborative work in parallel or in sequence, regardless of the nature and objectives of the research.…”

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Introduction: towards a cross-disciplinary history of the global in the humanities and the social sciences

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Roig-Sanz

Puxan-Oliva

2019

Journal of Global History

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The interdisciplinary analysis of historical and contemporary global issues with increasingly productive flows of theories, concepts, methods, and practices is a principal goal in global studies. However, within the humanities and the social sciences, the idea of the 'global' is often restrained by disciplinary boundaries, with scant dialogue and transference between them. The present special issue addresses this fundamental gap by historicizing the notion of the 'global' in an interdisciplinary dialogue, with approaches from history, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, art history, and media and communication studies. 1 Our objective is to gain greater insights on the global approach from several disciplines and to let their borrowings and contributions emerge.The issue responds to a double demand: on the one hand, it undertakes the task of historicizing global perspectives for several disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, providing a thorough intervention in the state of the art; on the other hand, it juxtaposes six disciplines to encourage fruitful cross-pollination and to address problems and challenges within a global dimension. The issue has four specific goals: first, to illuminate shared or divergent genealogies and chronologies, showing which theories, methodologies, and approaches to the global have been more productive and can further new paths of cross-disciplinary inquiry; second, to unearth unforeseen relations between disciplines, helping to better acknowledge their borrowings and connections; third, to show contextual and institutional disciplinary changes at a transnational scale, as well as the ideological agreements and discrepancies that often accompany these; and, fourth, to provide a pool of concepts and practices that will enrich the range of possibilities for the advancement of global perspectives in each discipline. Historicizing the global approachAs an epistemological premise, rather than as a complementary view, we understand 'global' as a research approach that examines cultural, social, political, or artistic phenomena on a larger † This special issue began to take shape in the seminar 'Global perspectives in the humanities and social sciences', which the Global Literary Studies Research Group (GlobaLS) organized in Barcelona in 2017. We thank the Department of Arts and Humanities at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and the MapModern project (Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad), for their financial support. We also wish to thank the keynote speakers (Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Jernej Habjan, Katja Naumann, and Peter Wagner) and seminar participants for their lively and productive discussions, which helped us reflect on the history of the global through different disciplinary perspectives.

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“…For this reason, one of the stated goals of this journal is to advocate the study of the history of the humanities from a global perspective. 1 In the first issue we included one aspect of the humanities in China. The current issue includes essays on the humanities in precolonial Mali, pre-Hispanic America, the Ottoman Empire, and the Soviet Union.…”

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