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What Are the Humanities For? Academic Thought After the Neoliberal University

Feinberg Series Fall Capstone by Christopher Newfield Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions: tuition is too high, student debt is unjust and unaffordable, and job outcomes are unreliable and unliberating. In this Feinberg Series fall capstone, Christopher Newfield, a distinguished scholar who has written extensively on the history of universities, argued that addressing these problems requires a wholesale redefinition of higher education around intellectual and social benefits rather than monetary ones. The talk identifies the role the humanities disciplines play in realizing these benefits, lifting up literary study as a field that has done exemplary work in generating radical thought with great, though misunderstood, public value. A public Q&A followed the formal remarks and was moderated by Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Amherst. This event is part of the 2024-25 Feinberg Series: www.umass.edu/feinberg