Ideas
Welcome to The Humanities Community
This knowledge community is brought together by a shared commitment to the humanities and a concern for their future. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round virtual relationships in a weblog, peer reviewed journal and book imprint - exploring the affordances of the new digital media. Members of this knowledge community include academics, educators and research students.
Conference
Members of the Humanities Community meet at the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, held annually in different locations around the world. Over the past six years, the Humanities Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for new ideas and new practices in humanities research and teaching. The conference was held at the Beijing, China in 2009, the Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2008; American University of Paris in 2007; University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia in 2006; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK in 2005; Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy in 2004; and the University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece in 2003. In 2010, the Conference will be held in University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Publishing
The Humanities Community enables members to publish through three media. First, by participating in the Humanities Conference, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums - a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical and constructive nature of the peer review process. The International Journal of the Humanities provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard.
The second publication medium is through a book imprint the The Humanities, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposals and manuscript submissions are welcome.
The third major publishing medium is our news blog, constantly publishing short news updates from the Humanities community, as well as major developments in the humanities.