Bass Connections (FHI-affiliated)
Bass Connections is a university-wide initiative that brings together faculty and students to explore real-world issues in interdisciplinary research teams. The Franklin Humanities Institute plays a special role in informing humanities faculty about opportunities through Bass Connections; cultivating humanities-based research projects connected to Humanities Laboratories or FHI centers such as the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI; and selecting which projects should receive funding through the Schiff Bass Connections Humanities Fund, a special fund established by Elizabeth T’81, L’85 and James T’81 Schiff to support Bass Connections projects that connect broadly to the humanities.
The list below highlights Bass Connections projects supported by the Schiff fund along with those connected to FHI Labs and Affiliated Centers (follow links for more information about individual projects). Additional humanities-linked projects can be found on the Bass Connections website.
2020-2021
- Mapping History: Seeing Premodern Cartography through GIS & Game Engines
- Fostering Social Integration of Displaced Populations through the Performing Arts
- Project Vox: Recovering the World of Women Philosophers in Early Modern Europe
- Virtual Reality & Neuroarchaeology
2019-2020
- AvH250: Imagining Interdisciplinary Research for the 21st Century from a 19th Century Perspective [AvH = Alexander von Humboldt]
- Coal & America: Coal Communities in Transition
- How to Build Ethics into Robust Artificial Intelligence
- Smart Archaeology
2018-2019
- ACRE-Duke Partnership to Improve Sanitation Access in Lowndes County, Alabama (DHRC@FHI)
- Creative Industries & the Urban Environment
- Documenting Durham's Health History: Understanding the Roots of Health Disparities
- How to Cure Political Polarization by Asking Questions
- Smart Archaeology
- Sowers and Reapers: Gardening in an Era of Change (DHRC@FHI)
2017-18
- Addressing Global Health Needs among Refugee Children and Families in Durham County
- Digital Cities & Cyberarchaeology
- Digital Durham: Past, Present, Future
- Global Mental Health Program
- How to Build Ethics into Robust Artificial Intelligence
- Visualizing Energy through Live Performance
2016-17
- Art, Vision, and the Brain: Autism and Face Processing
- Beauty in Balance and Balance in Beauty: An Exploration of the Laws of Physics in Abstract Modern Art
- The Construction of Memory at Duke and in Durham: Using Memory Studies
Co-led by Robin Kirk, Co-chair of the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI Faculty Executive Committee; sponsored by the DHRC@ FHI and the Pauli Murray Project - Digital Cities and Polysensing Environments
- Global Mental Health-Integrative Training Program
- NC Jukebox
Co-led by Victoria Szabo, Director of the FHI's Digital Humanities Initiative and PhD Lab for Digital Knowledge
Related Project:
- The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense
Co-sponsored by the FHI Global Brazil Lab
2015-16
