Centering The Humanities Across The Globe
The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes leverages the multiple perspectives of its membership on the state and future of the humanities to develop innovative models for international collaborative research and pedagogy.
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Welcome to IDEAS
IDEAS is a new platform for CHCI, reflecting the current state of the Consortium. Sara Guyer explains how CHCI always has been devoted to ideas—new and old, familiar and strange—opening a rare space in which experimentation in institutional forms and forms of knowledge overlaps.
African Humanities Map
Building on its experience cultivating regional humanities networks in a global context and coordinating multi-institutional projects that test its unique potential to support humanities research, CHCI will undertake a new regional initiative in Africa.
The 2017 Annual Meeting Short Documentary
This short film includes interviews with Premesh Lalu, Jane Taylor, William Kentridge, Isaac Julien, and other participants of “The Humanities Improvised,” the 2017 CHCI Annual Meeting hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa.
Call for Participation in the African Humanities Map [Update: Deadline Closed]
We seek to identify 8-10 organizations to participate in the first phase of the CHCI African Humanities Initiative: the African Humanities Map, an opportunity to better document and understand the institutional formations of the humanities in Africa.
Humanities for All: A National Survey of Public Engagement in the Humanities in Higher Education
The National Humanities Alliance is currently conducting a national study of public engagement in the humanities at institutions of higher education and is looking for examples of initiatives that have created opportunities for public engagement in the humanities involving higher ed faculty and students.
Richard Grusin Returns as Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies
Richard Grusin, former CHCI International Advisory Board Member, returns as the Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.