Membership Activity Fund Recipients
We are proud to announce the six recipients of funding from the inaugural CHCI Membership Activity Fund. The amount of funding totaled $40,000 and is derived from our membership dues and our current Mellon grant focused on global inclusive collaborations.
- Transit Asia Research Network, Joyce C.H. Liu, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Launching a new Asia-based CHCI network at the 2023 Summer Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) Institute, Decolonization in the 21st Century.
- ‘What We Brought With Us’ Exhibition, Vanessa Agnew, Academy in Exile. Touring this exhibit which shares the objects that people took with them when fleeing persecution, suffering, and war, with an accompanying symposium on art, exile, border crossing, and resilience at the University of Cincinnati’s Taft Research Center.
- Humanities as Cultural Heritage, Lee Wallace, Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), The University of Sydney. Supporting a CHCI delegation to the 21st General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) from 4-8 September 2023.
- International Symposium on Contemporary Chinese Poetry—University of Alberta, National Taiwan University, and Ohio State Univesrity. Hosting this symposium on the campus of the University of Alberta, September 15-18, 2023, organized by Christopher Lupke, Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao, and Mark Bender.
- Indigenous Migrations, Tourism, and Ecological Crises: Building Collaborations in Mexico, Bianet Castellanos, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota. Conducting a site visit to lay the groundwork for a project on indigenous migrations, tourism, and ecological crises in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
- CHCI Publication and Peer Review Working Group, Nicole Welk-Joerger, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Connecting the membership of CHCI in a larger conversation about the form and function of publishing for humanities centers and institutes.
The Membership Activity Fund is a small grant opportunity open twice a year for funding proposals from CHCI member centers and institutes. This fund supports our membership in two core goals:
Supporting inclusive collaborations among CHCI members and their partners, and
Supporting activities with outcomes that will benefit our membership.
Read more about the program, including guidelines to apply for the next cycle, at its program page. The next deadline is October 2, 2023.