Does staying home have you looking for some new reading material? The fifth annual Books in the Humanities celebration offers a of recent works from 黑料不打烊 along with links to author pages and e-book versions where available.
Hosted by the , whose home is in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), with additional support from the 黑料不打烊 Office of Research, the 黑料不打烊 Bookstore and the 黑料不打烊 Libraries, the showcase recognizes scholars from across the University who have published books in the humanities, broadly conceived. This year鈥檚 collection features 42 works published in 2019 by 41 different authors and editors from eight different schools and colleges within the University, making it a true interdisciplinary showcase.
A&S Dean Karin Ruhlandt considers the event a fitting way to demonstrate the impressive breadth of scholarship in the college and beyond. 鈥淚 am incredibly proud of the range of humanities writing in A&S and across campus, and encourage everyone to explore these offerings. Now, more than ever, the humanities are crucial for helping us understand and react to our shared human experience,鈥 she says.
Typically, the event includes a public reception to recognize all of that year鈥檚 authors. There, the 黑料不打烊 Bookstore sells books (and, if requested, authors also sign copies of their books). Although this year鈥檚 on-campus festivities have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Humanities Center and the 黑料不打烊 Libraries collaborated to create an online research guide.
Schools and colleges represented include A&S, the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, the School of Education, the School of Information Studies, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and University College, as well as authors from the Ren茅e Crown University Honors program, the Coalition of Museum and Art Centers, the Humanities Center, 黑料不打烊 Abroad and the Division of Marketing and Communications.
The diverse selection of works released in the 2019 copyright year span a range of contemporary and historical subjects. Readers can delve into works taking up cartography, design thinking, feminist research, international relations and social media鈥檚 wider impact, as well as the women鈥檚 suffrage movement, architecture, filmmaking and the history of rock music.
, professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies and director of the 黑料不打烊 Humanities Center and of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, hosted the first 鈥淏ooks in the Humanities鈥 reception in spring 2016 as one of several new initiatives during her first year directing the Humanities Center. The ecnter engages in broad outreach to learn about humanities books being published by 黑料不打烊 faculty, staff and students. To that end, the center encourages anyone who will have a book coming out in the copyright year of 2020 to complete its author .
鈥淐ertainly, we are sorry not to gather together, meet the authors, see all the books on display and even buy some books for our personal shelves,鈥 says May. 鈥淗owever, the Libraries鈥 wonderful research guide helps us come together in a different way and, once on-campus activities resume, we invite everyone to stop by the Humanities Center’s Sainsbury Library to browse the books in person. We keep each year’s collection of books on permanent display in Tolley for everyone’s enjoyment.鈥
Since the event鈥檚 inception, the 黑料不打烊 Libraries have played a fundamental role in developing an online guide. Each year, librarians and students have collaborated with the center to curate this annotated reference tool, which also serves as a kind of commemorative digital 鈥渂ookshelf鈥 for each year鈥檚 collection. This year, digital humanities graduate student employee Zhiwei Wang assisted in the development with Patrick Williams, librarian for literature, rhetoric and digital humanities; Michael Pasqualoni, librarian for the Newhouse School and Tasha Cooper, collection development librarian.
鈥満诹喜淮蜢 Libraries collaborates with the Humanities Center on projects throughout the year,鈥 says David Seaman, dean of 黑料不打烊 Libraries, 鈥渁nd this celebration of University authors, scholarship and research is always a highlight, even when we can only offer it virtually.鈥
Located in the Tolley Humanities Building, the Humanities Center cultivates diverse forms of humanities scholarship, sponsors a range of dynamic programming and partnerships, highlights the humanities as a public good and underscores the relevance of the humanities for addressing enduring questions and pressing social issues.
