The initiative aims to bring the results of research in the different lines of humanities closer to society through short videos.
The Institute of Humanism and Classical Tradition (IHTC) of the University of León (ULE) has just opened a new series of videos on its YouTube channel called ‘Humanities in Pills’, with which it wants to present different humanistic topics in a brief way and informative, lasting no more than three minutes.
The Director of the IHTC, Professor Jesús Mª Nieto Ibáñez, explains that “The multidisciplinarity and transversality of the IHTC of the ULE allow us to bet on this dissemination method to project in society part of its research results in the different lines of the Humanities, such as Philology (classical, Hispanic, English and French), Literature, History (ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary and American), Philosophy and History of Science, Library Science and Documentation, Linguistics, Historiographical Sciences, History of Art or Geography”.
The first two ‘pills’ that can already be seen on the channel have frankly interesting titles: ‘The classic myths are still selling today’ and ‘The gym yesterday and today, Classic Grace vs today’. It should be noted that the IHTC YouTube Channel also has a fixed monthly series of videos entitled ‘Aula Abierta de Letras’ which, with a longer duration, also seeks to bring the general public closer to the Humanities.
In this channel you can access very diverse topics, among which are some as curious as, among others, those entitled ‘Leap years’, ‘Pandemics portrayed in art’ or ‘The pirates of America in Hispanic territories’ .
Training and research activities
The Institute of Humanism and Classical Tradition of the ULE was born from the research group ‘Spanish Humanists’, founded by Professor Gaspar Morocho Gayo in 1989 and focused on the edition and study of texts of Spanish Humanism and its projection in America, as well as as in the survival of the Classical Tradition in Western culture.
Multidisciplinarity and transversality have made the IHTC a research center in the Humanities, with Humanism, in its broadest and most generic meaning, as the backbone of its different lines, such as Philology (classical, Hispanic, English and French), Literature, History (ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary and American), Philosophy and History of Science, Library Science and Documentation, Linguistics, Historiographical Sciences, History of Art or Geography.
Link to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPr-jz8mISE_o3ANlt1qDAA?
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