A professional organization for humanities teachers, scholars, and museum directors

HERA - The Humanities Education and Research Association - is devoted to promoting the worldwide study, teaching and understanding of the humanities across a range of disciplines through regular conferences, scholarship, and its journal Interdisciplinary Humanities.

The mission of HERA is to:
    
 • Promote the worldwide study, teaching and understanding of the humanities across a range of disciplines, including, but not limited to:

     - Ancient and modern languages and literatures, written or oral
       - History
       - Philosophy and religion
       - The visual arts and architecture
       - The performing arts, including theater, dance, and music
       - Performing media, including film, television, and the Internet
       - Related fields such as archeology, anthropology, ethnic studies, women's studies, and history of science and engineering
       - Those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.

       • Support the application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.

     • Support the interchange of research and the scholarships of knowledge, teaching and service in the humanities through conferences, publications, and related activities in a worldwide context.

     • Provide additional forums for the exchange of ideas regarding humanities education in schools, colleges and universities, libraries and museums, and other contexts.

  UPCOMING HERA CONFERENCE

2014
Washington, DC
HERA's Annual Conference Humane, Inhumane, Human. . . MORE>>

PRAISE FOR 2013 CONFERENCE

I want to say how much I enjoyed the presentations, people, and arrangements . . . I liked the diversity of interests and openness of the participants for discussion and feedback.          The conference was so inspiring that I want to attend the next one--and the one after that, and ...
         Glad I am a member. Thank you for this wonderful experience.

PAST HERA CONFERENCES

HERA has hosted conferences all across the nation. Check out conference programs, speakers, and special events. . . MORE>>

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OTHER UPCOMING HUMANITIES CALLS and CONFERENCES

April 4-6, 2013
San Diego, CA

Confessional Contest and Compromise in Early Modern England
Papers will explore the various contests and compromises that constituted religious life and literature in early modern England. . . MORE>>

April 10-14, 2013
Riverside, CA

The 2013 Joint Eaton/SFRA Conference Science Fiction Media
The past several decades have witnessed an explosion in SF texts across the media landscape, from film and TV to comics and digital games...MORE>>

May 9-12, 2013
Kalamazo, MI
International Congress on Medieval Studies
This Call for Papers shows that planning for next year is already well advanced, requiring your immediate attention if you plan to deliver a paper. Many sessions may become fully subscribed any time before the 15 September deadline for paper proposals. Thus if you are interested in giving a paper, we encourage early submissions addressed to the contact person . . . MORE >>

July 1-6, 2013
King's College, Strand Campus, England

International Bryon Conference
Registration and Call for Papers NOW OPEN
The Byron Society and King’s College London are pleased to announce that the website for the 39thInternational Byron Conference is now open . . .
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CURRENT ISSUE Interdisciplinary Humanitites


Fall 2012
Service-Learning in the Humanities


Summer 2012
Transformations

UPCOMING CALLS

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Deadline: May 1, 2013
Fall 2013 - Fat Representations
includes
scholarly articles, nonfiction essays, and book and film reviews that explore representations and theories of fat, gender and eating . . . MORE>>

Deadline: Nov. 1, 2013
Spring 2014 - Online Learning in the Humanities
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ONGOING IH CALLS and other Information . . . MORE>>

PAST ISSUES OF IH


Spring 2012
Children's Media


Fall 2011
(mis)Representing Difference


Spring 2011
Intersections: Mind, Body, Time, Space

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OTHER ONGOING CALLS

CRITIQUE is a peer-reviewed literary journal devoted to essays on contemporary fiction. The editors are also interested in critical essays on the fiction of significant emerging writers from any country. . . MORE>>

English and American Literature
The English Department at the University of Pennsylvania hosts calls for papers on English and American Literature and Culture for journals and conferences . . .
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George Washington Encyclopedia
George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, Museum and Gardens is seeking submissions for entries on a variety of topics to be included in a new online encyclopedia . . . MORE>>

HNet - Humanities and Social Sciences on Line
An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences . . . MORE>>

NEBULA is an online academic periodical interested in all things intellectual with the intention of providing a platform for interdisciplinary reading . . . MORE>>

Email conference and call announcements to: Marcia Green (mgreen@sfsu.edu)

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NEWSLETTER

HERA's newsletter features conference updates, interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship, travelogues, and MORE>>

RESOURCES

Member News Awards, publications, websites and MORE>>

Humanities Publications, Organizations, Centers, and Other Web Links Links to resources for study, research, and funding in the humanities . . . MORE>>

Museums, Libraries, Online Journals, Opera, Theater, Music, and Dance A comprehensive listing of many of the internet's best online sources . . . MORE>>

Job Postings in the Humanities Browse postings for career opportunities in the Humanities . . . MORE>>

The University of Louisville invites applications for a senior professor of Global Humanities to serve as Director of the Humanities Ph.D. program . . . MORE>>

Colleges and Universities offering Humanities degrees A comprehensive list of American institutions focusing on the Humanities . . . MORE>>

Email resource announcements to: Marcia Green (mgreen@sfsu.edu)

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DONATE HERA is a 501(c)3 corporation that provides the support needed to bridge the gap between all levels of Humanities Education from kindergarten through the college and university levels . . MORE>>

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