Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Join ASEEES and the 2026 ACLS Social Media Campaign!

ASEEES is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS the week of April 13-17, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.

The goal is to flood feeds across platforms with personal, jargon-free statements that make the case for—not defend—specific fields and areas of study in the humanities and social sciences with posts such as: “We need area studies scholars because…”

A toolkit with more details, example posts, and Canva templates can be found here: www.acls.org/TalkAboutHumanities

Content Suggestions and Tips

Use the following tools to help guide your participation on social media, but please personalize and share your own stories, photos and experiences as much as possible.

• We need [scholars of a discipline/subject/area] because…
• We need more scholars of a discipline/subject/area] because…
• What does [field] tell us about the world?

Text Posts Examples (not to be used verbatim, please customize.)

• We need more classicists because the questions ancient societies asked about democracy, power, and justice are the same ones we’re still trying to answer. #TalkAboutHumanities
• We need more political scientists because democracy is not self-executing. Fair elections, accountable institutions, and informed citizens require research, evidence, and careful study of how power operates. #TalkAboutSocialSciences
• What do art historians teach us about the world? They teach us that images have always been used to shape what people believe. I research how political propaganda used portraiture in the 16th century, and we see similar tactics used on social media today. #TalkAboutHumanities
• We need more scholars of Ukrainian history because … #ASEEES #TalkAboutHumanities
• We need more Slavicists because…#ASEEES #TalkAboutHumanities
• We need more experts on Polish politics because…#ASEEES #TalkAboutSocialSciences

Hashtags

Hashtags help connect posts to campaign conversations and allow us to track engagement. Feel free to use one or both!

• #TalkAboutHumanities
• #TalkAboutSocialSciences

Please use #ASEEES to tag us!

Canva Templates

• View Canva templates
  • Just drop in your text and photos!
  • The template does not have to be strictly followed – feel free to change colors, branding, remix it, etc!
• Use photos from your field work, of you teaching, in the archives, or at community or scholarly events, speaking or interacting with others

If you have any questions, please Contact Us.