I wanted to (belatedly) share the following announcement from our colleague Richard Eckman, the President of the Council of Independent Colleges of the availability of an extensive set of materials from an April 2011 Symposium on the Future of the Humanities. There's some great material in here, and it's wonderful to have it available for those of us who could not attend the symposium.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear Colleague:

As you know, CIC and the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University organized a Symposium on the Future of the Humanities, which took place on March 29 in Washington, DC. Because many people who were able to participate reported that they found the day to be particularly stimulating and thought-provoking, we have posted on the CIC website (www.cic.edu/HumanitiesSymposium) the texts of most of the presentations, including those by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Douglas C. Bennett, Robert Darnton, Jean Bethke Elshstain, Thomas F. Flynn, Edward Hirsch, Steven Knapp, Victoria Mora, Azar Nafisi, S. Georgia Nugent, and Neil L. Rudenstine. Incisive introductory remarks by several of the moderators, photographs taken during the Symposium, and a list of all participants in the event are also available on the website. Additional presentations will be posted as they become available.

If you are interested in viewing the webcast as well, it is available at www.sais-jhu.edu/humanities. A number of the presentations are likely to be of interest to humanities faculty members and some of them may also be useful in classes. Will you please share this email with appropriate members of the faculty?

Thank you again for your interest in the Symposium.

Sincerely yours,

Richard Ekman President Council of Independent Colleges One Dupont Circle, NW Suite 320 Washington, DC 20036