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Global Collaboration Seed Grants, 2019-20
Friday, April 26, 2019The Franklin Humanities Institute is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2019-20 Global Collaboration Seed Grants. We have been fortunate to receive generous matching support from the Office of Global Affairs' Andrew W. Mellon Endowment for Global Studies for this program. These grants are... read more about Global Collaboration Seed Grants, 2019-20 »
Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop Awards, 2019-2020
Monday, April 15, 2019The Franklin Humanities Institute is pleased to grant Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops to the following recipients for the 2019-2020 Academic Year. Additional awards may be announced during the Fall 2019 semester. Sarah Beckwith, Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of English, English... read more about Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop Awards, 2019-2020 »
FHI-supported publication “remixed” into multimedia installation
Monday, April 8, 2019Dust of the Zulu, on view at the Rubenstein Arts Center from March 18 – April 15, 2019, is billed as “an immersive installation incorporating sound, photography, and video [that] brings twenty-five years of award-winning ethnomusicological fieldwork in South Africa to life.” But before it was... read more about FHI-supported publication “remixed” into multimedia installation »
Statement on Linguistic Diversity: Languages and Translation at the FHI
Monday, February 25, 2019At the Franklin Humanities Institute, we understand the humanities, the arts, and the interpretive social sciences to have been consistently invested in the global dimensions of humanistic thought. Historically, scholars and students have tried to learn the languages in which the objects of their... read more about Statement on Linguistic Diversity: Languages and Translation at the FHI »
FHI Assistant Director honored with Samuel DuBois Cook Society Award
Monday, February 18, 2019Pamela Montgomery, Assistant Director for Finance and Administration at the Franklin Humanities Institute, will be one of the honorees at the annual Samuel DuBois Cook Society Dinner on Tuesday, February 19, 2019. Named after the late Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, the first tenure-track African American... read more about FHI Assistant Director honored with Samuel DuBois Cook Society Award »
Former Humanities Writ Large Fellow's Philosophy Podcast Picked up by Slate
Thursday, January 31, 2019Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College, was a Humanities Writ Large Visiting Faculty Fellow during the 2016-2017 academic year. Splitting his time between the Department of Philosophy and the Story Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, he spent his year at Duke... read more about Former Humanities Writ Large Fellow's Philosophy Podcast Picked up by Slate »
Announcing the 2018-19 FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows
Friday, October 26, 2018We are pleased to announce the 2018-19 cohort of Franklin Humanities Institute-North Carolina Central University Digital Humanities Fellows. The fellowship program was inaugurated in 2016-17 under the aegis of the FHI’s Mellon Humanities Futures initiative and is now supported by the Digital... read more about Announcing the 2018-19 FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows »
Publishing Humanities Initiative hosts Diversity in Scholarly Publishing Roundtable
Wednesday, October 24, 2018The Publishing Humanities Initiative held a roundtable on the lack of diversity in scholarly publishing at the Franklin Humanities Institute on October 17, 2018. Niko Pfund, President and Academic Publisher of Oxford University Press USA, offered an overview of scholarly publishing today,... read more about Publishing Humanities Initiative hosts Diversity in Scholarly Publishing Roundtable »
Artist, Activist, and Afrofuturist Ingrid LaFleur to visit Durham and Duke University
Monday, October 22, 2018As the culmination of the series Aural Futures, which she curated with Professor of Literature Negar Mottahedeh, the artist, activist, and Afrofuturist Ingrid LaFleur will visit Durham, North Carolina on October 25 and 26, 2018. Events featuring LaFleur include two film screenings at the Full Frame... read more about Artist, Activist, and Afrofuturist Ingrid LaFleur to visit Durham and Duke University »
Former FHI Lab Fellows Publish Digital Sound Studies Book
Tuesday, October 9, 2018The FHI congratulates three former members of both the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge and the AudioVisualities Lab, Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien, on the release of their co-edited book, Digital Sound Studies, on contemporary sound studies. We are proud to have... read more about Former FHI Lab Fellows Publish Digital Sound Studies Book »
