Global Humanities Institutes 2023 Awardees
We are delighted to announce that, after a two-year hiatus, CHCI will support new Global Humanities Institutes, to be hosted in 2023.
“Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes: Humanities, artistic and activist responses” is based on a partnership between the UCD Humanities Institute (University College Dublin, Ireland), the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies (Tallinn University, Estonia), the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa), the School of Culture, History and Language (Australian National University), and the Humanities Research Center at Rice University (U.S.A.). "Drawing on methodological frameworks from anthropology, history, literary studies, environmental studies, bio-archaeology and activist art practice to investigate significant sites of extractivism in Ireland, Germany, Estonia, South Africa, Oceania and the Gulf Coast of the United States," principal investigator Anne Fuchs writes, "the focus of the project is the comparative exploration of creative arts practices and local activism in the transition from mining to post-mining and in the mobilisation of opposition to new practices of extractivism."
"Global Racisms, Cold War Humanism, and the Imagination of Just Futures" is a collaborative projects between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (Columbia University, U.S.A.), the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (India), the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Tsinghua University, China), the Centre for Humanities Research (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), and the University of Wolverhampton (U.K.). Principle investigator Anupama Rao writes: "Our Global Humanities Institute seeks to clarify this conundrum of competing oppressions, drawing on the strong transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement and the compelling responses of global communities across distinct demographics and colonial histories, to reflect more broadly on the global reach and relevance of humanistic scholarship on the study of subaltern and minority pasts. We draw on the current conjuncture to develop critical studies of race and racism that extend beyond the historical experience of the North Atlantic, and North America in particular."
We look forward to sharing updates about the two projects as they get under way this year, and we extend our congratulations to the two teams. We also want to acknowledge all the other expressions of interest and proposals we received, many of which were of the highest caliber. We were delighted to receive a record number of 26 expressions of interest, representing collaborations between more than 50 centers, institutes, and other organizations from all world regions, on a broad range of topics, from climate change, to racial justice, health, indigeneity, among others. We were incredibly pleased to receive so many creative and intriguing proposals as they demonstrated a great vitality within the CHCI membership and enthusiasm for creating new global partnerships to work on new and current topics. This was especially heartening following the long pause that the COVID-19 pandemic had forced on this program.
Based on the quality of the projects we received, we are thrilled not just for the 2023 Global Humanities Institutes, but for the future of this program, as this was the first year of the new cycle of this Andrew W. Mellon grant and we look forward to more calls and institutes over the next few years.