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| Page updated 2 Dec. 2004 |
The MHRA was delighted to be involved, in conjunction with the European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford, in a two-day conference entitled The Future of the Humanities. The conference was held on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 March 2004 in the Maplethorpe Building, St Hugh's College, Oxford. This event was supported by the Europaeum and the Modern Languages Faculty of the University of Oxford.
The aim of the conference was to assess the changes that have taken place in the Humanities in the last thirty-five years and to consider what the future of the humanities might be in the 21st century. The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) organized the first such conference in 1968 as part of its fiftieth anniversary celebrations, the proceedings being published in J. C. Laidlaw (ed.), The Future of the Modern Humanities (1969).
The European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford, in conjunction with the MHRA, and other relevant bodies, organized this follow-up conference to examine the enormous changes that have taken place in the Humanities since 1968, and to outline the implications for the future.
In order to do this, major authorities on the Humanities were invited to speak, and a wide range of topics were covered, including humanities and the universities, the humanities and Europe, visual culture, ICT in the humanities, the media and the humanities. Speakers included representatives of the AHRB (Michael Jubb, David Robey), the British Academy (Peter Brown), the MHRA (MHRA Chairman Malcolm Cook), as well as Edward Acton (UEA), Malcolm Bowie (Christ’s College Cambridge), John Frow (Edinburgh University), Edith Hall (Durham), Ludmilla Jordanova (Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), James Raven (University of Essex), Lenka Rovna (Prague University), Bill Swainson (Bloomsbury Publishing), Alexis Tadié (Maison Française, Oxford) and humanities experts from the University of Oxford.
Details of future conferences held may be found here.