Membership Activity Fund Recipients (Q1 2025)
We are proud to announce the six recipients of funding from the CHCI Membership Activity Fund for 2025 Q1. The amount of funding totaled $35,000 and is derived from our membership dues and our current Mellon grant focused on global inclusive collaborations.
Joint Research Project: “The Chip Era and Digital Governance: Geopolitics, National Strategies and the Operation of Capital.” CHCI Transit Asia Research Network, International Center for Cultural Studies - National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Launching a three-year joint research project to provide a comprehensive understanding of the interconnections between digital governance, geopolitical dynamics, and societal impacts across diverse regions.
Hosting an Indigenous Studies Conference at VCU: Indigenous Pasts, Indigenous Futures: The Legacies of Boarding and Residential Schools in the United States and Canada. Humanities Research Center - Virginia Commonwealth University. Organizing an international conference in Q2 2026 to bring scholars, archivists, teachers, and community members together to center the history and literature of residential and boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada, and working towards a global indigenous network.
Detroit Humanities Network: A Symposium. Humanities Center - Wayne State University. Establishing a network among university centers and outreach offices engaged in public humanities work in the Detroit area and the City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture, and Entrepreneurship.
Forgetting the Classics? Reimagining Ancient Worlds for the 21st Century. Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Presenting a two-day conference in September 2025 around the theme of “forgetting the classics,” featuring interdisciplinary panels on various aspects of forgetting—especially the creative forgetting that might make possible not only new paths of inquiry, but also fundamentally new modes of understanding what constitutes knowledge within our respective disciplines and what the work of a critical scholar might be.
Summer Teaching Institute in Reading-Writing Pedagogy. Mandel Center for the Humanities - Brandeis University. Supporting a week-long teaching institute on reading and writing pedagogy in community colleges as well as connecting community college faculty interested in in-depth pedagogy discussions with PhD students interested in learning about the practical realities of teaching at community colleges.
Gender Activism: Transdisciplinary and Trans-hemispheric Knowledges in Movement Part III- Santiago de Chile. Center for the Humanities - Washington University in St. Louis. Convening international scholars and practitioners in Chile at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) to participate in the co-creation of a publication intended as a model for the integration of a hemispheric perspective on gender activism.
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 6, 2025.