Since 2012, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has advanced multiple forms of international, collaborative research designed to foster new knowledge and new networks. Building upon the first phase of this project (2012-2017), in which 26 member centers and institutes contributed to four distinct projects, and with the support of a new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CHCI launched, in 2017, the Global Humanities Institutes, a program for a second generation of international collaboration. In the first phase of this new initiative, CHCI selected two pilot projects, involving 10 centers and institutes from all parts of the world that convened Global Humanities Institutes on “Translation’s Theoretical Issues, Practical Densities: Violence, Memory, and the Untranslatable” held in Santiago, Chile and on “Crises of Democracy through the Prism of Cultural Trauma” in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Subsequently, we invited humanities centers and institutes to propose their own themes and three teams are now working on Institutes: “Migrant Workers, Global Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context,” to be held in Taiwan in June 2021; “Childhood and Social Suffering in Global Africa” and “Climate Justice and Problems of Scale” in 2022.
After a challenging year, during which we suspended issuing new CFPs, we are thrilled to be able to invite humanities centers and institutes located around the world to submit proposals for two-week Institutes to take place in 2023.
Funder: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
URL: https://chcinetwork.org/programs/ghi2023
Deadline: September 30, 2021
