Humanities for Young People

Humanities for Young People Humanities for Young People (HYP) is a new summer program for bright and highly-motivated students from ages 14 to 16.

It will take place at the University of King’s College in K'jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia from July 7th–16th, 2017. Humanities for Young People acknowledges that all scholarship and activity at the University of King's College, including HYP, takes place in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people.

Don't panic, RSVP. It's not too late to get your link for "Blast from the Past"! A historical probe into past plagues le...
04/29/2021

Don't panic, RSVP. It's not too late to get your link for "Blast from the Past"! A historical probe into past plagues led by King's faculty fellow Hillary Illkay and Early Modern Studies Director Dr. Simon Kow. They will be taking us through pandemics in Ancient Greece, 17th-century London, and the superstition they spread. You won't want to miss it!
Follow this link to register: https://simplycast.ca/?q=forms/take&i=60773f4e824053.62621205
and check out the rest of "Plague Sundays" on our website: https://hyp.ukings.ca/

WE'RE BACK! After all this time HYP is back online (literally). Since we cannot gather in the traditional HYP way we dec...
04/23/2021

WE'RE BACK! After all this time HYP is back online (literally). Since we cannot gather in the traditional HYP way we decided to create a virtual HYP so we could all process and ponder this plague year together. Throughout May 2021, HYP will be presenting "Plague Sundays!" a bi-weekly engagement with a group of interdisciplinary artists, activists, and theorists to apply humanities lenses to all things viral.
If you are interested in attending one or all of these webinars check out our website: https://hyp.ukings.ca/

03/25/2020

To our friends and students past, present, and future, it is with a heavy heart that we pass on the following news:
Due to current health and safety concerns, we regret that we are cancelling our annual summer program, Humanities for Young People (HYP), for 2020. We look forward to offering this program again in the summer of 2021. Until then, we wish all of you safety and good health in these in difficult times.

03/13/2020

🎥 Meet your HYP 2020 lecturers! 🎥 Dr. Bennett will be lecturing on Nietzsche's "On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life" (that's the one with the philosophy about cows)!

Ursula Johnson, "Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember)", 2014-Present
03/12/2020

Ursula Johnson, "Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember)", 2014-Present

03/07/2020

Meet your HYP 2020 lecturers! Dr. Wassersug will be lecturing on Shakespeare's histories!

🐄 Did you know you could write philosophy about cows? 🐄
03/05/2020

🐄 Did you know you could write philosophy about cows? 🐄

02/26/2020

🎥 Meet your HYP 2020 lecturers! 🎥 Dr. Diamond will be lecturing on Plato's use of myth in the his philosophical dialogues.

Halifax is a city of many memorial and monuments. Some scholars argue that we can learn from public displays of memory, ...
02/22/2020

Halifax is a city of many memorial and monuments. Some scholars argue that we can learn from public displays of memory, but others think that monuments actually make the work of public memory much harder. For example, Jewish Studies scholar James Young analyzes the recent German trend of building ‘counter monuments’: “memorial spaces conceived to challenge the very premise of the monument.”
What do you think about public monuments? Are they productive ways of remembering our collective past? Or should we be more critical about who and what get memorialized?

If questions like this get you thinking, then you may be interested in HYP 2020: Hindsight! For more information about the program & application process, please visit http://hyp.ukings.ca/ !

Source: http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/9/memory-and-counter-memory

02/20/2020

🎥 Meet your HYP 2020 lecturers! 🎥 Hilary will be lecturing on the correspondance of medieval philosophers Héloïse and her teacher Peter Abelard!

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