National Humanities Center Launches New Website for ASC Project
As part of its ongoing ?Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human & The Humanities? project (ASC) the Center has launched a new website which significantly expands the potential pool of humanists and scientists engaged in the exploration and examination of topics surrounding the question of human being.
The new website, located at http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/ will facilitate conversations among the growing list of project participants, archive video proceedings from conferences and seminars, and provide an opportunity for sharing and discussing current work in diverse fields that are challenging traditional notions of ?the human.?
?Whereas, in the past, poets and philosophers asked what it means to be human, scientists today are asking what it is to be human,? says Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director of the National Humanities Center. ?One of the tasks of our project is to assemble a number of these people so we can begin to map this work, so that developments in different fields can be seen as parts of a wide-ranging movement with a single focal point.?
In the coming months, the Center will welcome two new resident ASC Fellows, a slate of distinguished visitors, and host its second annual conference as part of the ongoing activities for the ASC initiative.
For questions about the ASC initiative, please contact Phillip Barron.