Humanities: Humanities Projects

The below is an alphabetical list of Arizona State University projects currently listed at the Humanities for All web-site (National Humanities Alliance).

AI Policy Features
"AI Policy Futures investigates science fiction narratives for policy insights about artificial intelligence. This is a joint project of the Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI) at Arizona State University and the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation, supported by the Hewlett Foundation."

Center for Imagination in the Borderlands
"The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands is an Indigenous space at ASU where we constellate stories, knowledges, and language across our many borderlands through strategic and exploratory modes of research, conversation, and performance."

Curatescape
"Curatescape is a web and mobile app framework for publishing location-based content using the Omeka content management system. Curatescape is an affordable and user-friendly solution that allows small to mid-sized cultural organizations, preservation groups, or educational institutions an opportunity to reclaim their interpretive voice and reconnect to their communities and audiences."

echo::system
"echo::system is a response to our current global crisis caused by contemporary human inability to reflect upon our own impact on the natural world."

Everything Change (Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative)
A climate fiction contest and anthology project of the Center for Science and the Imagination.

The Feminist Lens (Ms. More Than a Magazine, a Movement)
"The Feminist Lens series offers an inside look into the world of film-making and media production through conversations between women in the film, television and digital media industry and Aviva Dove-Viebahn, a Ms. scholar and professor who writes about gender and race in popular culture."

Future Tense Fiction (Slate.com)
"Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society."

Humanities for the Environment
"The aim of the Humanities for the Environment Observatories (hfE) is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges."

Humanities Lab
"The Humanities Lab at ASU is designed as an experimental space in which interdisciplinary faculty teams work with students from a variety of academic and cultural backgrounds to investigate grand social challenges, to construct researchable questions that delve deeply into those challenges, and to generate possible approaches to complex, “wicked” issues like immigration, health, and climate change, for which there are no easy answers."

Humanities Lecture Series
"Each fall and spring semester the Faculty of Languages and Cultures coordinates the Humanities Lecture Series. Typically offering three presentations each semester, the series began as a forum for bringing ASU Downtown Phoenix campus learners and the greater community in dialog on a range of humanities topics."

Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative
"Imagination is essential to the ability of individuals and societies to create, design and bring about the futures they want. Given the massive planetary changes currently in progress, the past is no longer a reliable guide to the future. Instead of relying on experience and stability, we have to make use of future-oriented science combined with our own dreams and desires and our ability to trigger and manage times of change. In the human-dominated Anthropocene, we need to learn about and practice wisely our collective power to influence the distant future – the world in which not only our children but our grandchildren’s grandchildren will live."

A Journal of the Plague Year
"JOTPY seeks to become the largest digital archive devoted to recording experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the wider historical and cultural moment of the pandemic. Focused on international collaboration, ethical practice, and iterative digital humanities methods, JOTPY seeks to become the model for rapid-response, born-digital archives of the COVID-19 pandemic."

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Arizona State University
"Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Arizona State University (OLLI at ASU) is a community of engaged learners discovering the joy of lifelong learning at its best . . . no tests, grades, or educational requirements! OLLI at ASU members have the opportunity to grow and learn inside and outside the classroom via campus events, local affinity groups, group discounts to local cultural and art events, and social media networks."

The Project for Writing and Recording Family History
"Whether you're just starting genealogy research, want to improve your researching skills, or are looking for writing practice and inspirational ideas for capturing family stories and memories, you'll find support here. For those intersted in doing family history- or memoir-writing, attending a number of workshops and using the writing prompts to generate memories and reflections or structure your ideas can help you make a good start in telling your story."

Project Humanities
"The award-winning Arizona State University initiative, Project Humanities, strives to be a leader in local, national, international conversations about the breadth, depth, and value of humanities study and humanist practice and understanding across disciplines and communities. Project Humanities seeks to connect the University and local communities in talking, listening, and connecting. We further seek to establish and lead multidisciplinary and inclusive public programming that engages local, national, and international communities in humanities discussions."