Dr. Bernard Perley, Director and Professor in Critical Indigenous Studies and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, talks about his work in language revitalization, experiential pedagogy, and the crucial role art plays in both scholarship and activism.
New Scholar Spotlight Story – Dr. Kavita Philip
Dr. Kavita Philip, Professor of English and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, sits at the epicentre of multiple networks, fostering interdisciplinary research within and beyond the academy. In this Scholar Spotlight, she talks about what it means to speak to a rapidly shifting global public, and finding spaces that allow for experimentation and collaboration.
Dr. Kavita Philip
Professor of English, Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Justice, President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures, and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member
“If you look at the Public Humanities Hub website, there is a great definition of the humanities as encompassing the different ways in which we understand all facets of the human experience, for example through narrative, memoir, creative expression. If you look at what humans do and all its complexity, you need interdisciplinarity because humans do everything in a week. They might do something analytical, aesthetic, emotional, religious, political—if we break those all up into different departments, you do not get the full understanding of human experience. Interdisciplinarity is required to understand human experience itself because we experience life in all its complexity.”
Read the interview here