CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute 2021: Call for Interested Centers and Institutes

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 new program for a second generation of international collaboration. In the first phase of this new initiative, CHCI selected two pilot projects, now involving 10 centers and institutes from all parts of the world that will convene two Institutes in July of this year—one on “Translation’s Theoretical Issues, Practical Densities: Violence, Memory, and the Untranslatable” to be held in Santiago, Chile, the other on “Crises of Democracy through the Prism of Cultural Trauma” in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Last year, we invited humanities centers and institutes to propose their own themes and two teams are now working on Institutes to be held in the summer of 2020—the first one on “Childhood and Social Suffering in Global Africa” in Tanzania, the second one on “Migrant Workers, Global Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context” in Taiwan.

This year again, we invite humanities centers and institutes around the world to propose the themes around which they will plan and host a two-week Institute in the summer of 2021. We expect to fund one Institute in this third round.

The online call for expressions of interest and the application form are found here. The deadline for the call is extended to September 15, 2019.

We encourage you to circulate the .pdf version of the call found here: CHCI GHI 2021 Call

If you are interested in submitting an application, consider attending the panel devoted to CHCI International Collaborations at the 2019 Annual Meeting in Dublin.