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  • Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century

    Humanities Forward by Holmes-Henderson, Arlene; Nitu, Stephan;

    Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century

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    • Publisher Liverpool University Press
    • Date of Publication 28 July 2026

    • ISBN 9781805967446
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 666 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 6 Illustrations, black & white
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    An Open Access edition will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

    Humanities Forward brings together scholars and practitioners who have developed innovative responses to the challenges facing the Humanities. International, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational, their contributions illuminate, in diverse ways, the impact, value, and societal relevance of the Humanities in the 21st century. There is a need for researchers to communicate the value of what they do, and there is a need for policymakers to recognize the immense contributions, individual and societal, made by the Humanities. As one of the book’s contributors puts it, “it is not trivial to consider the sum of human happiness that is owed solely to the continued existence of humanities subjects.”

    This book offers a roadmap for both researchers and public stakeholders, showcasing best practices across a wide range of disciplines. Challenging provocations sit side by side with insightful analysis, asking the reader to be part of a collective conversation. Whether in Europe, South America, or Oceania (and beyond), this volume offers fresh perspectives from academics, publishers, research funders, and schoolteachers. Together, they articulate what the Humanities stand for, on their own terms.

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    Table of Contents:

    Foreword: Skepticism and the Humanities
    Christopher Smith

    PART I: WHY THE HUMANITIES?

    Introduction: Summoning the Humanities
    Stephan Nitu and Arlene Holmes-Henderson

    VALUATION AND APPLICATION

    Value Judgements: Charting the Discourse on Value in the Humanities
    Stephan Nitu

    Values-Based Scholarly Communication Practices: Collaboration and Field-Building in the Public Humanities
    Daniel Fisher-Livne, Younger Oliver, and Kath Burton

    The Irene Project: Classical Literature for the Promotion of Peace and Reconciliation in the Classroom
    Ronald Forero-Álvarez, Rafael D. Uribe-Neira, Deisy Amapola Vásquez-Guerrero, Juan Gabriel Santamaria-Pérez, Martin Dinter, Jesús David Girado-Sierra, and Lucio Martín Forero-Álvarez

    Talking About Trees: The Paradox of the Environmental Humanities
    Conor Brennan

    The Uses of Use-less Indigenous Research
    Alice Te Punga Somerville

    PRESENCE AND POLICY

    ‘If a Classicist Can Engage with Policymakers, then Anyone Can!’ Reflections on a Steep Learning Curve in Whitehall
    Arlene Holmes-Henderson

    Institutional Impact in the Policy Environment: the Role of the British Academy
    Hetan Shah

    Global Crisis and Humanistic Inquiry: a View from the United States
    Joy Connolly

    Humanities Research Seen from a European Network Perspective
    Charles Giry-Deloison and Wojciech Sowa

    Investing in the Young
    Stephanie Oade

    Multilingualism in the UK: from Public Policy to Public Opinion
    Wendy Ayres-Bennett

    Language Teaching Needs Language Science: A manifesto for Linguistics and Language Teaching in the United Kingdom
    Michelle Sheehan, Jonathan Kasstan, Norma Schifano, Sascha Stollhans, Anna Havinga, Alice Corr

    PART II: WHY FORWARD?

    INNOVATION AND FRAMEWORKS

    Thoughtful Interdisciplinary Thinking – The Future Is Now
    Tomás Lally

    Humanities Publishing in 2046: Hopes and How We Might Realise Them
    Louis Coiffait-Gunn

    River Song Praxis: Reimagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts
    Ali Gumillya Baker, Natalie Harkin, Faye Rosas Blanch, Simone Ulalka Tur, Katerina Teaiwa, Lou Bennett, Romaine Moreton

    India and the Global Future of the Humanities
    Alex Kostova

    Syennesis to Aristotle, 2400 Years on: Medicine, Machine Learning, and the Future of Humanities Research
    Jenny Vo-Phamhi and Katherine Benjamin

    Literature Pedagogy in the Digitalized Classroom: Observations from Hong Kong
    Flora Ka Yu Mak

    The Role of the Arts and Humanities in Thinking about Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    John Tasioulas

    WELLBEING AND HUMANITY

    The Primacy of Love: Toward a Renewed Understanding of Human Nature and Critique in the Humanities
    Sarah Thomas

    The Case for Delight in the Humanities: a View from Te Whanganui-a-Tara
    Frazer MacDiarmid

    “We are awake in the gone forest”: Humanities for Land Justice
    Anna Sims Bartel

    Conclusion Roundtable: Humanities Forward
    Stephan Nitu in conversation with Daniel Grimley, Gervase Rosser, Emily Troscianko, Elleke Boehmer, and Arlene Holmes-Henderson

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