Are the humanities worth investing in?

Knowledge Exchange Fellow Oliver Cox (@OliverJWCox) from The Oxford
Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) asked members of the
public, students and academics in Oxford whether humanities
subjects are worth investing in. This question will be asked again
at the opening event of TORCH's Humanities and the Public Good
Series on Monday 27 January at the Mathematical Institute,
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter from 5pm. Introduced by the
Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton and chaired by the Head
of the Humanities Division Professor Shearer West, the event brings
together leading scholars in the humanities and sciences, and
influential figures beyond academia, to consider the role of the
humanities in addressing contemporary challenges. Professor Earl
Lewis, President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will give an
opening presentation entitled In Everyone's Interests: What it
Means to Invest in the Humanities. This will be followed by a
roundtable discussion including David Willetts (Universities
Minister), Hermione Lee (President of Wolfson College and
Biographer), Marcus du Sautoy (Charles Simonyi Professor for the
Public Understanding of Science) and Charlotte Higgins (Chief Arts
Writer, The Guardian). Visit http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk for more
information and find TORCH on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/TORCHOxford.