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When: Wednesday 10 June 2026

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Timing: 9:30am until 4:00pm

Event is free but registration is essential

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The state and situation of the humanities in universities can seem bleak right now. Institutions across the UK, for example, are cutting humanities budgets and in some cases entire departments. Similar things are happening in the USA, Canada, and elsewhere. More broadly, readership for humanities publications is dropping (as is the percentage of adults who read for pleasure). As a result, the time and investment required of humanities researchers to create high quality outputs -- monographs, journal articles, conference papers, etc. -- is being called into question. With the rise of generative large language model software, genius (or, at least passable content) is but a click away, further eroding the sense of skill and craft that goes into this thinking and work.

Despite this, there is hope. Scholars within universities and wider stakeholders, from booksellers to librarians to readers, continue to develop new ways of communicating and engaging with audiences. New generations of researchers continue to ask relevant questions and create elegant and timely responses to the challenges we continue to face. All of this shows that humanities research itself remains critical, as the world grapples with ever more complex -- and ever more human -- problems.

By bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders and perspectives, this symposium seeks to ask as many questions about where we go with communicating the value of our research as possible. Collectively, we start to answer these questions with the aim of finding new answers and approaches to the publication of humanities research.