There seems to be a gap in the current research (and practice) in Public Administration about the major contribution the humanities can and ought to make to the advancement of public administration and public governance. While social sciences such as political science, public policy, sociology, management, social psychology and others are part and parcel of the ‘administrative sciences’ – and their contribution is reflected in the workings of corresponding EGPA Permanent Study Groups investigating the contribution such disciplines can provide to the administrative sciences - the contribution the humanities can furnish to the development of the field of PA appears to have been overlooked, or at the very least not to have been developed in a systematic way across the humanities. The (re-)discovery of the humanities for the field of PA may be beneficial to the progress of the field in a number of ways.
 
The aim of this panel is to draw attention to this gap, examine in a critical and integrated way the contribution that can be provided by the humanities for the development of Public Governance and Public Administration, and discuss possible ways forward to bring the humanities (much) more systematically into Public Administration, and how EGPA may contribute to this endeavour.