Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Brown University

In fulfilling its mission to the University and to the field of humanities, the Cogut Institute:

- Supports and maintains Brown's stellar reputation in the humanities.

- Encourages and supports interdisciplinary and cross-cultural work and groundbreaking intra-disciplinary work in the humanities.

- Sustains and nurtures international perspectives at Brown in an era of increasing globalization: exploring the relations between the local and the global; investigating the fate of the concept of the nation and of nationalism; and pursuing issues of cultural translation.

- Explores the public role of the humanities, the various crises it has witnessed in the past decade, and the pressures confronting the humanities in the current economic and political climate.

- Interrogates the relation between various disciplines in the humanities and the growth of technologies of information and visualization: questions of the archive (what a culture conserves and how it is conserved); the viability and role of the humanities in an era of increasing prestige of the sciences; the impact of digitization and digital media.

- Nurtures relations between the humanities and the studio and performing arts.

- Reinvigorates the concept of "critique" and the role of critical theory in the disciplines of the humanities.

- Explores the re-emergence of pressing issues of ethics and aesthetics in the humanities.

Visit the organization's website for complete program information. The Cogut Institute advises that unsolicited applications may not be reviewed.