CHCI and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) have launched an expanded program designed to provide opportunities for certain ACLS fellowship recipients to spend all or part of their fellowship terms in residence at CHCI member organizations. By connecting ACLS fellows with CHCI member organizations, the program aims to provide fellows with a supportive working environment that facilitates access to unique resources, materials, and people, while at the same time enabling CHCI member organizations to diversify and further invigorate the intellectual climates of their organizations.
Each of the CHCI member organizations listed below has committed to providing ACLS fellows with the baseline forms of support required of participating member organizations, including: (1) a fully equipped workspace, (2) network and internet access, (3) full library access, and (4) a wide range of opportunities for interaction with their local scholarly communities. According to the terms of our agreement with ACLS, host organizations may not provide salary supplements or research funds, but some prospective host sites can provide financial support for relocation and/or housing. Please see each entry, below, for details.
The program is based on direct interaction between ACLS fellows and CHCI member organizations, who will work together arrange a residency that provides tangible, valuable benefits for both parties. Interested ACLS fellows should contact the individual indicated in each entry, below. If you have general questions about the program, please contact CHCI.
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Center for Cultural Analysis
Rutgers University
cca.rutgers.edu
The Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University is able to welcome a visiting ACLS fellow in 2011-12, in fall or spring semesters or the full academic year. Fellows may participate in one of the Center’s working groups, which for 2011-12 include the main seminar Public Knowledge: Institutions, Networks, Collectives, and a number of smaller groups: Atlantic Studies, The Developing Room, Economies of Affect, Literature and New Media, and Literature and Philosophy. Fellows may also be interested in joining one of our affiliated groups: The Americanist Seminar, Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book, Modernism and Globalization, or The Program in Early Modern Studies. More information about these groups may be found at the CCA website.
The CCA can accommodate an ACLS fellow beginning in spring 2011. No financial support for relocation and housing is available, but CCA staff will actively assist in the identification of suitable local housing. Rutgers-New Brunswick is located in central New Jersey, in close proximity to numerous universities and libraries along the Amtrak corridor. Interested ACLS Fellows should contact CCA Director Meredith McGill at mlmcgill@rci.rutgers.edu or (732) 932-8426, specifying the working group (or groups) with which you may be interested in being affiliated, as applicable. Complete information on the Center can be found at cca.rutgers.edu.
Center for the Humanities at Temple
Temple University
www.temple.edu/humanities/
The Center for the Humanities at Temple University is a vibrant space dedicated to interdisciplinary research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Resident fellows become a full member of that intellectual community. They can participate in the Center’s Fellows Seminar, a year-long working group composed of faculty and graduate students who submit works in progress for a rigorous interdisciplinary critique. They can also participate in any of the Center’s annual research groups; of these, the longest-standing center on Film Studies, South Asian Studies, Internationalist perspectives on American Studies, Pre-Modern Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Culture. Located in Philadelphia, PA, residents have extended access to the archives at the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company, the College of Physicians, and others including Temple’s own Urban Archives. It is 90 minutes away from additional research materials in New York and Washington, DC.
The Center will provide a fully equipped workspace with staff support and access to basic office machinery; internet/network access; full library access, including its databases; multiple opportunities for interaction with the local community of scholars. The Center cannot provide housing or relocation support. Fellows can be accommodated beginning in Fall 2011. For further information, please contact Peter Logan, Director, at peter.logan@temple.edu or 215.204.8567.
Centre for the Humanities
Utrecht University
http://www.uu.nl/cfh
The Centre for the Humanities (CfH) at Utrecht University is a platform for pioneering, innovative research & research training activities. Through the Centre, the faculty – which since 2007 includes Philosophy, Theology and the Arts – profiles itself to the outside world by presenting their most excellent research, thus increasing the visibility and relevance of Humanities in a broader non-academic world. The CfH does so by: organising joint, cross-faculty research activities, such as symposia, seminars and conferences; sponsoring a selected range of academic, artistic and cultural activities designed both for members of the academic community and for the general public; building a network of strong alliances with a number of preferred local and international partners and thus boosting the excellence and outstanding quality of research in the Humanities at Utrecht University; and increasing the visibility of the topics and the methods that make the Humanities vital and unique both at Utrecht University and in the contemporary world.
The Centre’s current platform “What is Human about the Humanities?” aims to investigate interdisciplinary perspective different aspects of the foundational categories within the Humanities. The Centre actively co-operates with the leading Research Institutes in the faculty, the Province and City of Utrecht and the Treaty of Utrecht organisation. The Centre will make its network accessible for the Fellow by organising internal meetings with faculty and brainstorming sessions about the project of the Fellow, or help setting up bilateral meetings for the Fellow.
The Centre can accommodate an ACLS fellow beginning in fall 2011. No financial support is available for relocation or housing, but Centre staff will actively assist with visas, bank accounts, and identification of housing. Interested fellows should contact Centre Manager Esther Rinkens at e.rinkens@uu.nl. Complete information on the Centre can be found at www.uu.nl/cfh.
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Concordia University
cissc.concordia.ca
Located in the vibrant multicultural, bilingual city of Montréal, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University was established in 2007. Its mission is to promote advanced interdisciplinary work in the Humanities and Fine Arts by creating avenues for research and exchange among faculty and graduate students. The Centre supports innovative Humanities-based interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work through its unique Humanities PhD Program as well as through public lectures, conferences, seminars, and working groups. The Center has hosted postdoctoral fellows sponsored by the Fulbright Scholar Program as well as by the China Scholarship Council-Concordia Joint Fellowship program.
The Center is able to welcome a visiting ACLS fellow for the Winter semester in 2012 (January-May 2012) and beyond. The Center will provide an office equipped with phone, computer/printer; internet/network access; access to basic office machinery; full access to Concordia as well as area Montreal University libraries, and multiple opportunities for interaction with the local community of scholars. The Center cannot provide housing or relocation support. Interested fellows should contact Marcie Frank, Director, at Marcie.Frank@concordia.ca or (514) 848-2424 ext 2852. More information about the Center is available at http://cissc.concordia.ca
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
University of Freiburg
www.frias.uni-freiburg.de
The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is the University of Freiburg’s international research college. The Institute invites scholars from the University of Freiburg as well as renowned researchers from around the world to conduct cutting-edge research as fellows of FRIAS. With its four Schools of History, Language & Literature, Life Sciences – LifeNet, and Soft Matter Research, FRIAS aims to make seminal contributions to the international debate in the humanities and the sciences. The institute grants its fellows the greatest possible freedom to fully develop their scientific creativity; at the same time, it aims to maximize synergies through close co-operation and teamwork between its members, and to provide productive feed-back and new impulses to the University’s faculties and departments.
In the humanities, the main research areas are: comparative European history from the 18th to the 20th century (School of History), the concept of corpus-based quantitative and qualitative research on language and, in literary studies, a decidedly comparative and transdisciplinary approach to the analysis of texts in their broad cultural contexts (School of Language & Literature). However, additional research foci from the humanities are also represented at the institute. For further information on FRIAS programs, please consult our website: www.frias.uni-freiburg.de
FRIAS can accommodate an ACLS fellow beginning in fall 2011. Financial support may be available for relocation and housing. Interested fellows should contact Head Administrator Carsten Dose at carsten.dose@frias.uni-freiburg.de, or +49(0)761-203 97350. Complete information on FRIAS can be found at www.frias.uni-freiburg.de.
Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
Texas A&M University
http://glasscock.tamu.edu/
In 2011-2012, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University will explore the theme of “Sustenance,” conceived as ranging from the study of food to the investigation of sustainability, with much in between. Two Center-sponsored symposia, free-standing lectures by philosopher Andrew Light, historian Donald Pisani, and literary and film critic James Chandler, and the work of four internal fellows will all specifically address issues of sustenance during the year.
In addition to its thematically focused activities, the Glasscock Center features weekly informal coffees with university colleagues, fortnightly faculty colloquia and monthly graduate student colloquia of works-in-progress, and two dozen working groups that meet on matters embracing the period-defined (early modern studies; medieval studies), the theoretical (queer studies; transdisciplinarity), the regional and ethnic (South Asian studies; Indigenous studies), the topical (literacy; countercultural movements) and more. Additionally, the Center annually co-sponsors upwards of forty lectures, symposia, and small conferences in the humanities and related disciplines. Resources that further enhance humanities research at Texas A&M University include the newly created Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture and the holdings of the university’s rare book and manuscripts library, the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.
The Center can accommodate an ACLS fellow in fall 2011 and beyond. Financial support for relocation and housing support may be available, up to a total amount to be determined by the length of residency and distance of the fellow’s move. Interested fellows should contact current Director James Rosenheim at rosenheim@tamu.edu (through August 15), or incoming Director Richard Golsan at rjgolsan@tamu.edu (after August 15). Complete information on the Center can be found at glasscock.tamu.edu/.
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Columbia University
www.heymancenter.org
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University would gladly welcome a visiting ACLS Fellow in 2011-12, in the fall or spring semesters or for the full academic year. Fellows are encouraged to participate in one or more of the various working groups that meet weekly or fortnightly at the Heyman Center and to attend the numerous lectures and conferences held each semester on themes of importance to the humanities, including, in 2011-12, the theme of the disciplines and disciplinary innovation. A list of our conferences, lectures, discussions, poetry-readings and other performances can be found under “Events” on our website. The Heyman Center is Columbia University’s central site for the Humanities, bringing together not only faculty and students in the various departments in the humanities, but also those in the natural and social sciences and in the professional schools of Law, Medicine, Journalism, Arts, and International Affairs who share an interest in the broad conceptual, methodological, and value-laden issues traditionally associated with humanistic study. It is also the home for the eight post-doctoral fellows, each holding a Mellon fellowship, in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and for other post-doctoral fellows and scholars in the humanities. The Center provides space to Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, to the Society of Senior Scholars (a group of emeritus faculty who teach primarily in the Core Curriculum), and The Friends of the Heyman Center: all of these host seminars and colloquia of their own throughout the year. The Lionel Trilling Seminar (once a semester) and the Edward Said Memorial Lecture (once a year) are also based at the Heyman Center. Complete information on the center can be found on our website.
The Heyman Center can provide an office, computer and library access, and other visiting scholar privileges. No financial support for relocation or housing is available, but the Heyman Center staff will assist in the identification of suitable local housing. Interested ACLS Fellows should contact the Heyman Center Associate Director, Eileen Gillooly, at eg48@columbia.edu.
Humanities Collective
University of California, Irvine
www.humanities.uci.edu/collective/
The UC Irvine Humanities Collective would be thrilled to host a CHCI/ACLS Fellow. Fellows would have access to the following resources, and would have the opportunity to work with the resources that UC Irvine are able to provide. In addition the the Critical Theory Institute, the archives and special collections of Langson Library would provide Fellows with unique resources in the history of major thinkers and writers like Paul de Man, Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida, etc. Fellows interested in the intellectual history of critical theory would find UC Irvine to be a particularly interesting environment.
The Department of English offers unique strengths in literary history and criticism, spanning Early Modern English to 20th Century American literature as well as Rhetoric. The UCI History Department is particularly strong in World History. The Center for Persian Studies and the International Center for Writing and Translation at UCI are local intellectual and academic hubs that can provide Fellows with engaged communities and constituencies.
UC Irvine is also home to one of the few Visual Studies Ph.D. programs in the US and Fellows with a special interest in this area would have the opportunity of working with professors, graduate students from both the School of the Arts and the School of Humanities who are interested in the intersection of Art History, Broadcast History, Film Studies, Architectural History, Urban Studies, New Media, Design History etc.
UCHRI is housed at UC Irvine and runs UC wide and national and international programs in the Digital Humanities. It provides administrative support for the the UC Humanities Network, which has just received funding from Mellon for a three year project on Changing Conceptions of Work. Fellows who are interested in this topic are encouraged to seek residency at UCI.
The Humanities Collective can provide an equipped office and library access, as well as subsidized, on-campus housing, and will work with CHCI/ACLS Fellows to promote individual and collaborative research opportunities at UC Irvine. Interested ACLS Fellows should contact Humanities Collective Director Catherine Liu, at liucather@gmail.com.
Humanities Institute
University at Buffalo
http://www.humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu
The University at Buffalo (part of the State University of New York system) is known for its interdisciplinary collaborations. In the last few years the College of Arts and Sciences has created new centers for Disability Studies, Asian Studies, and European Studies. UB’s Humanities Institute is at the center of all this activity. It sponsors yearlong lecture series, research workshops, and numerous conferences and symposia, all of which will allow an ACLS fellow to be quickly immersed in the university’s intellectual life.
This interdisciplinary activity stands on strong disciplinary foundations. UB’s English Department is one of the strongest in North America, building on the legacy of faculty members such as Leslie Fiedler and Susan Howe. Departments of Comp Lit, History, and Classics, among others, are leaders in their fields. ACLS fellows will have access to UB’s outstanding research facilities, including the James Joyce Collection (the largest in the world), the renowned Poetry Collection, the University Archives, and the 20,000-volume Rare Book Collection. In the city of Buffalo fellows can do research in the Grosvenor Room at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library and in the substantial manuscript holdings of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. And, because Buffalo sits at the center of the “research horseshoe” around the western end of Lake Ontario, it is a short drive to the libraries at the University of Toronto, McMaster University, and the University of Rochester. Buffalo itself offers residents a vibrant arts scene, with nearly twenty professional theater companies, two outstanding museums of twentieth-century and contemporary art (the Albright-Knox and the Burchfield Penney), and more live music than one person could possibly experience.
The Center can accommodate an ACLS fellow in fall 2011 and beyond, and can provide up to $2,000 in financial support for housing and relocation. Interested fellows should contact Director Erik Seeman at seeman@buffalo.edu. Complete information on the Institute can be found at www.humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu.
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.iprh.illinois.edu
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was established in 1997 to promote interdisciplinary study in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The IPRH grants fellowships to Illinois faculty and graduate students: and in fall 2010 welcomed the first two A.W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities. This year, the IPRH also hosts the second annual Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, appointed jointly by the IPRH and the Illinois Informatics Institute. The IPRH coordinates and hosts numerous lectures, symposia, and panel discussions on a wide variety of topics; organizes a yearlong film series; offers a course through the Osher Lifelong Learning Initiative; and provides awards that recognize excellence in humanities research to faculty and students. Beginning in 2010-11, the IPRH will launch a new funding program, the Collaborative Research Project that supports faculty-driven initiatives for interdisciplinary public programming in the humanities. The 2010-11 academic year marks the fifth year of the Odyssey Project, a free nine-month humanities course offered to members of the Champaign- Urbana community who live at or near the poverty level. The course is supported by the University and a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, and is taught by Illinois faculty. The IPRH is also entering its third year of affiliation with the Education Justice Project, a prison education program supported by the Illinois Humanities Council and individual donors.
The IPRH will provide ACLS fellows with many opportunities for interaction with the local community of scholars through participation in our bi-weekly Fellows Seminar, and through the many events we organize throughout the academic year. At UIUC, we also offer exceptionally rich library and special collections resources, digital humanities and computational resources, and a robust tradition of inter-and trans-disciplinary scholarship and collaboration.
The IPRH can accommodate an ACLS fellow in fall 2011 and beyond. In select circumstances, IPRH may be able to provide limited resources for relocation and housing through partnerships with University departments, depending on the nature of the fellow’s work. Interested fellows should contact Associate Director Christine Catanzarite at catanzar@illinois.edu. Complete information on the IPRH can be found at www.iprh.illinois.edu.
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
University of Edinburgh
http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) is a lively international community of scholars from postdocs to distinguished emeritus Fellows. At the Institute, weekly lunch meetings, work-in-progress sessions and ambitious symposia provide regular opportunities for discussion with colleagues within the Fellowship and in the University at large. Fellows have access to the full range of seminars in the University. The Institute is housed in a secluded 18th Century courtyard close to the University Library, where Fellows have full borrowing rights and access to the library’s unusually rich collection of manuscripts and rare books. It is also within easy reach of the National Library of Scotland, the Central City Library, the National Galleries and Museums, the Library of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland, the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the National Archives of Scotland. Unparalleled historical resources are complemented by innovative research activity across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Edinburgh University is a world leader in Informatics, cognitive science and philosophy of mind, and supports some of the UK’s highest rated departments of literature, history, philosophy, law and divinity. During their stay IASH Fellows have an opportunity to consult colleagues in these and other outstanding research units.
The Institute offers informal mentoring, professional training and a chance for Fellows to organise workshops in their own areas of interest. IASH Fellowships offer valuable international experience, help with funding applications, exposure to interdisciplinary research in action and a supportive and stimulating context for professional development, in addition to access to unique and extensive research resources. Healthcare is cost-free. IASH is a member of national, European and international consortia of humanities centers and institutes, and welcomes Fellows who also wish to spend time with a sister institute. and questions should be addressed to in the first instance.
The Institute can accommodate an ACLS fellow beginning in fall 2011 and beyond. No financial support is available for housing or relocation, but IASH staff will actively assist in logistical matters such as identifying appropriate accommodation in one of Europe’s most beautiful historic cities. Interested ACLS fellows should write to iash@ed.ac.uk. Complete information on the Institute can be found at www.iash.ed.ac.uk/.
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University
www.columbia.edu/cu/icls
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) was founded as a Center at Columbia University in 1998 and became an Institute in July 2007. One of the Institute’s primary goals is to provide institutional support for cross-disciplinary and cross-regional comparative work, acknowledging the force of recent changes in the humanities, the social sciences, law, and architecture. It houses the interdepartmental undergraduate and graduate programs in Comparative Literature and Society and organizes interdisciplinary workshops, conferences, and symposia throughout the academic year. In the 2011-12 year ICLS will host a major conference and related workshops on the topic “Rethinking the Human Sciences.”
ICLS would welcome an ACLS Fellow with a comparative focus starting in 2011-12, for the fall or spring semester or for the full academic year. Fellows have numerous opportunities to take part in scholarly activities at the Institute through our regular programming (see the Events section of our website for more details) as well as the programming of the Heyman Center for the Humanities, where the ICLS offices are located. The Institute can provide fully equipped office workspace; internet/network access; full library access; and other visiting scholar privileges. While no financial support for relocation or housing is available, the ICLS staff can assist with locating suitable accommodations. Interested ACLS Fellows are asked to contact ICLS Director Stathis Gourgouris at ssg93@columbia.edu or the ICLS offices at (212) 854-4541.
Institute for Research in the Humanities
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://irh.wisc.edu/
Located in the newly renovated Humanities Hub next to the main university libraries, the Institute fosters a stimulating, interdisciplinary community of some 40 external and internal fellows annually and encourages innovative research in the humanities for the 21st century. Weekly Monday seminar presentations by fellows are lively, intensive, and supportive, creating the atmosphere and space for ongoing informal dialogue; follow-up Tuesday lunch seminars attended on an optional basis provide a unique opportunity for extended discussion of presentations. We also sponsor conferences, symposia, workshops, and lectures, work closely with the Center for the Humanities, and assist external fellows in making connections with faculty and programs on campus. Additionally, we sponsor five external Solmsen Fellowships for those working on pre-1700 Europe; six theme-based Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships; and four internal Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellowships.
The weekly seminars are held during the fall and spring semesters, running in 2011-12 from September 6 to December 12 and from January 17 to May 7. The Institute does not offer housing for fellows, but Ann Harris can provide advice on locating suitable living quarters. The UW-Madison Libraries offer a world-class library system with over 7.3 million printed volumes, many distinguished special collections, and millions of resources in other formats, including digital. For more detailed information on library collections, contact Susan Barribeau, Humanities Librarian at UW-Madison Memorial Library. The nearby Wisconsin Historical Society is a national depository of books and papers in American history and culture and a major resources for Americanists in the Humanities.
The Institute can accommodate an ACLS fellow beginning in fall 2011 and beyond, for full-year or one-semester residencies. Up to $1,000 in financial support is available for housing or relocation, and Institute staff will actively assist in identifying suitable housing. Interested ACLS fellows should contact Director Susan Stanford Friedman, at ssfriedm@wisc.edu, or 2011-12 Interim Director Tejumola Olaniyan at tolaniyan@wisc.edu. Complete information on the Institute can be found at irh.wisc.edu/
Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity (ICCC)
University of Saskatchewan
http://artsandscience.usask.ca/iccc/
The Interdisciplinary Centre of Culture and Creativity (ICCC) at the University of Saskatchewan was established in 2009. The ICCC is home to a variety of academic programs as well as research initiatives. At the undergraduate level, the ICCC offers a major and honours degree in Women’s and Gender Studies, a minor in New Media and Digital Culture, and classes in community-service learning. We are currently exploring a new programme in indigenous humanities. At the graduate level the Centre offers an MFA in Writing program. On the research front, the ICCC supports undergraduate initiatives, graduate student recruitment, and hosts fellows from academic and community environments. We also support working groups of interdisciplinary scholars pursuing new questions and/or new ways of knowing. As such, we have supported groups examining the areas of Aboriginal historical consciousness and voice, new media and culture, archival work in queer and sexuality studies, and disabilities culture. A series of additional new research initiatives will be launched in September 2011.
Among its objectives, the ICCC encourages graduate and undergraduate programming across departmental boundaries, increases the potential for research collaboration and funding success, improves the University’s capacity to connect with external partners, and attracts and sustains students, visiting scholars and artists, and faculty. As the University moves into its third integrated planning cycle, the ICCC’s mandate and goals are increasing prominent and promising. The ICCC remains committed to the above stated objectives and will build on these strong foundations in the future. We are looking towards creating greater academic programming collaborations for undergraduate and graduate students. We are committed to maintaining and building new and existing relationships with a variety of communities. We will support and enhance our research profile and success. As such, the ICCC is keenly interested in exploring opportunities to build on current and emerging strengths across the Humanities and Fine Arts, and we are focusing special attention on the area of Indigenous Humanities as broadly defined.
We welcome fellows from all disciplinary areas, but are particularly interested in scholars pursuing work with an Indigenous focus.
The Institute can accommodate an ACLS fellow beginning in fall 2011 and beyond, for any period of time. No financial support for housing or relocation is available. Interested ACLS fellows should contact Institute Director Keith Thor Carlson at i.ccc@usask.ca, or (306) 966-4327. Complete information on the Center can be found at artsandscience.usask.ca/iccc/.
Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center
University of Delaware
http://tinyurl.com/4sa6rja
The mission of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Delaware is to: strengthen humanities research, enhance its visibility both regionally and nationally, and provide support for initiatives involving multi-disciplinary collaborative research teams and both inter- and intra-institutional partnerships; support creative, intellectually ambitious course development and curriculum innovations that bring cutting-edge research into the classroom and engage more undergraduates in humanities research; and enhance the University’s public humanities programming, thereby contributing to the University’s overarching goal of making the main Newark, DE campus a destination: an intellectually and culturally rich and exciting environment for students, faculty, and the community. IHRC programming in 2011-12 will have a dual focus on “The African Americas” and “Environmental Humanities.” We would be especially interested in hosting ACLS Fellows who have a vested interest in one of these topics and would benefit from the University of Delaware Library’s unique resources in these fields as well as from those of cultural organizations in the area.
The IHRC can accommodate up to two ACLS fellows in fall 2011 and beyond. No financial support for relocation or housing is available. Interested fellows should contact IHRC Director Ann Ardis at aardis@udel.edu or IHRC Associate Director and Director of University Museums Janis Tomlinson at jat@udel.edu. Complete information on the Institute can be found at their website.
Jackman Humanities Institute
University of Toronto
www.humanities.utoronto.ca
The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) would welcome a visiting ACLS Fellow in 2012-2013, for two semesters from September-May. The Fellow will join a residential Circle of Fellows from a range of humanities and humanistic social sciences and at all career stages (faculty, postdoctoral fellow, graduate student and advanced undergraduate student) who will be working on the Annual Theme of Food. Fellows meet weekly for lunch to share their research, and hold offices at the Jackman Humanities Institute. Each fellow has a private office in the JHI fellows conclave. Administrative support and access to copying/scanning/faxing, the entire University of Toronto Library system (among the top 4 research libraries in North America) and the Internet are provided. All JHI-sponsored events for 2012-2013 will be on the theme of Food, and the JHI also supports a range of interdisciplinary working groups, which Fellows may join. Toronto offers a uniquely diverse multicultural setting; we look forward to integrating this advantage into a year of scholarship on Food:
Food is a basic human need. It shapes desires and yields many kinds of enjoyment. The humanities explore food from diverse perspectives seeing it both as an object produced and consumed and also as the means and symbol of our human relations. The diversity of what we eat (and don’t eat) and of how food is produced and shared shapes cultures, communities, nations, and empires. Refracted through literature, religion, and art, food is a central lens for exploring human history and the patterns of our interaction. Hunger, as an index of poverty and of environmental disaster, provides a reversed lens with which we can explore justice and ethics. How humans get what they eat, from near and far, is basic to ways of inhabiting places on the earth and relating to other species. From hunter-gatherers to communal gardens, feudal farming to agribusiness, food and the systems that provide it are matched by a diversity of the tables at which we eat–food for celebration, sustenance, display, competition, joy and sorrow.
Interested fellows should contact Director Robert Gibbs at jhi.director@utoronto.ca. Complete information on the Jackman Humanities Institute is available at http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Northwestern University
http://www.humanities.northwestern.edu
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities has a seven-month opening (February 1 through August 31, 2012) for an ACLS Fellow-in-Residence. The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University organizes and promotes the kind of expansive, interdisciplinary discussion and debate that characterizes leading-edge humanities scholarship today. In addition to our quarterly Artist in Residence Program, the Institute sponsors an interdisciplinary DIALOGUE Series, invited lectures, research workshops, and weekly lunchtime colloquia, a series in which appointed Faculty Fellows and others present work-in-progress from a range of disciplines. Northwestern University, based in Evanston, is close to noted research resources in Chicago such as the Newberry Library, the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries at The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago.
The Kaplan Institute can accommodate an ACLS fellow between February 1 and August 31, 2012. No financial support for relocation or housing is available. Interested fellows are encouraged to contact Director S. Hollis Clayson at hum@northwestern.edu. Complete information on the Institute can be found at www.humanities.northwestern.edu.