Peter Kaufman at University of Wyoming: "Such Large Discourse: Leadership and the Humanities"
Channel: Wyoming Videos
Date: 2014-12-19

Dr. Peter Kaufman: Such Large Discourse: Leadership and the Humanities
Hosted by the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, Dr. Peter Kaufman, Professor at the University of Richmond, presented "Such Large Discourse: Leadership and the Humanities" at University of Wyoming. 
Humanities are too often viewed as “instrumental” and celebrated only in core courses, service courses, and pre-professional “basic” university programs. But humanities are much more. Humanities recognize and cultivate students as intellectuals rather than as consumers or mere recipients of knowledge.  Whereas professional education can constrict students within “mind forg’d manacles”, the “transgressive teaching” of the humanities encourages life-long learners who are always transcending what they’ve been taught.
The mission of the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research (WIHR) is to promote, support, and showcase humanities scholarship across the university and the state.  In addition to sponsoring invited speakers, events, discussion groups, and fellows, WIHR supports individual and collaborative research projects, as well as more specific individual needs related to research projects.  WIHR encourages the engagement of UW humanities faculty with local, national, and international scholarly communities and engages in critical reflection on the nature of the humanities and their role in a civil democracy.  The institute will tap the potential of the humanities to invigorate faculty interactions, enrich teaching, and deepen the connection between the university and the state. 
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