HUMANITIES CENTER Founding Director Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, Mellon CNY...

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HUMANITIES CENTER Founding Director Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor Principal Investigator http://www.syracusehumanities.org

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HUMANITIES CENTER

Founding Director Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor Principal Investigator

http://www.syracusehumanities.org

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Facts & Figures• Founded in June 2008 after 5-year planning study by the

College A&S Humanities Council• Anchor Programs: Syracuse Symposium, Mellon CNY

Humanities Corridor, HC Interdisciplinary Research & Fellowship Programs, Jeanette K. Watson Visiting Collaborator Program (2010-)

• Over 52 major conferences, symposia, lectures, performances, and exhibits since its inception.

• 2009 total budget of $650,000 for all programs & activities.

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The Critical Role of a Humanities Center

•To temporarily shelter disciplinary research in a time of institutional volatility;•To provide a location for new forms of inquiry and new research topics that cannot be readily accommodated in existing disciplinary frameworks or curricula (always keeping the need for new models of assessment in mind);•To actively construct a nexus of connectivity between the local university culture, the surrounding community, and local cultural institutions, bridging the divide between creation and analysis in the arts and humanities. • To visibly network the physical location of the Humanities Center to regional, national, and international sites realizing the continued importance of conferences and colloquia, even in new digital formats.

The Mission of the SU Humanities Center...

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Considering humanistic inquiry as having three models that are not mutually exclusive and maintain a flexible approach conditioned by initiative and by user:

Disciplinary research—sometimes viewed as pure, disciplinary, homogeneous, expert-led, hierarchical, peer-reviewed, and almost exclusively university-based (i.e., the trickle down theory of use).

Transdisciplinary research vs. static inter-disciplinarity, transforms disciplinary frameworks and assumptions in the process of knowledge production (e.g. Perpetual Peace, TdMS)

Publically engaged research (“scholarship in action”) integrates knowledge production with community needs in order to create the capacity to solve increasingly complex human problems; introduces user as an active participant in the creation of new research agendas (e.g. Mellon IA Forum on Public Scholarship)

Three Models of Research:

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E.S. Bird Library: Collaborations

Participating Faculty: Sean Quimby (HC-FAB, Mellon PI)

Sponsored Programs: Howard Bond Exhibit (Symposium 2009) Alan Wallach Lecture (Symposium 2009) Belfer Sound Collection Analysis (Mellon 2009) Symposium on Copyright Issues (Mellon 2010)

Total 2009-2010 sponsorships: $34,000

Grants Submitted: NEH/IMLS Digital Humanities Start-up Grants Program, SU Humanities Center: Digitizing Humanistic Practices, Transforming Culture (Lambert and Quimby, PI’s)—not awarded.

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School of Architecture: Collaborations

Participating Faculty: Jon Yoder (Mellon PI), Mark Linder, Brian Lonsway, Jonathan Massey (TdMS)

Sponsored Programs: Into the Open: Positioning Practice (Mellon 2009) Trans-Disciplinary Media Studio (Chancellors Award) Plastic Modernities (TdMS/HC Symposium) “HUM 500: Plastic Theory” (Lambert)

2009 sponsorships: $12,0002009 income: $8,000

HUMANITIES CENTERCollege of Visual & Performing Arts:

Collaborations

Participating Faculty: Kendall Phillips (Mellon PI), Owen Shapiro, Laura Heyman (HC-FAB), Bradford Vivian (HC-FAB), Andrew Waggoner (Mellon PI), Anne Demo (Mellon PI)

Sponsored programs: Key-words in Visual Culture (Mellon 2009) Ensembles in Residency: Sequitur, Lark Quartet, Brave New

Works (Mellon 2008-2010) Symposium on Music and Sound (Mellon 2009) Lectures: W.J.T. Mitchell, Richard Dyer, Deborah Wills, Carrie

Mae Weems (Symposium 2009) Visible Memory conference (Mellon 2008) HC Dissertation/Project Fellowship HC Internal Faculty Fellow

2008-AY2010 sponsorships: $186,000

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S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications: Collaborations

Participating Faculty: Tula Goenka (HRFF/Symposium)Richard Breyer (HC-FAB)

Sponsored programs: Human Rights Film Festival (Symposium 2009)

2009-2010 Sponsorships: $16,000

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School of Education: Collaborations

Participating Faculty: Sari Biklin (HC-FAB)Emily Robertson (Mellon PI)

Sponsored programs: Symposium on Philosophy of Education (Mellon

2009) Lynn Manning : “Weights” (Symposium 2009) NEH: ‘Enduring Questions’ proposal 2009 : What

Does It Mean to Be an Educated Person?” Multi-Perspectivism on 21st Century American Life:

2008-AY2010 sponsorships: $23,000

HUMANITIES CENTERSchool of Law: Collaborations

Participating Faculty: William Banks (INSCT, Perpetual Peace, Mellon PI), Tucker Culbertson, Evan Criddle

Sponsored programs: The Role of Islam in International Humanitarian Law

(Mellon 2009) The Spring 2010 Angela Cooney Colloquium on Law and the

Humanities: “What is Post-humanism” Cary Wolfe, Rice University Law Symposium & Mini-Seminar (HC co-sponsor)

2009-2010 sponsorships: $30,000

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Other SU Collaborations: Maxwell, English, History

Maxwell School of Citizenship: Participating Faculty: Richard Rubenstein (HC-FAB),

Elizabeth Cohen (HC Internal Faculty Fellow) Sponsored programs: Internal Faculty Fellow S2010:

Elizabeth Cohen, Book Project: Citizenship, Naturalization and Jus Soli in Calvin’s Case

English Department: Regional CNY Victorian Reading Group breakfast Raymond Carver Lecture Series: Edwidge Danticat Carol Fadda-Conrey, Mohja Kahf, September 17

History Department: Paul Hagenloh, Associate Professor, travel Stanford workshop

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S.U. Art Gallery & Light Work Gallery: Collaborations

Participating Faculty: H. Frieser (HC-FAB), David Prince (SUART Associate Director, David Tatham (Emeritus Professor)

Sponsored programs:

Winslow Homer’s Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond (Symposium 2009)

Mellon Symposium on Winslow Homer (Mellon 2009) Barry Anderson: Exhibit & Lecture (Symposium 2009) A Conversation: Posing Beauty (Symposium 2009) Lecture: Alan Wallach (Symposium 2009)

2009-2010 sponsorships: $25,000

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Office of Provost/Academic Affairs: Collaborations

Participating Faculty: Carol Brzozowski (SU Arts Presenter),

Esther Gray (University Lectures)

Sponsored programs: Shen Wei Dance Co. (Symposium 2009) University Lectures (Symposium 2009-2010)

o Ira Glasso Marian Wright Edelmano Khaled Hosseini (mini-seminar)o Firoozeh Dumas (mini-seminar)

Total 2009-2010 sponsorships: $20,000

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SUNY Upstate Medical Humanities: Collaboration

Participating Faculty: Amy Campbell (Mellon PI)

Sponsored programs:

Conference on Disability (Mellon 2009)

2009 sponsorships: $27,000

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Cumulative 2008-2009 Sponsorships

Total HC contribution to programs and activities in other divisions of SU:

2009 Symposium sponsorships: $77,000 2008-2009 Mellon sponsorships: $271,000 Other HC and College A&S sponsorships: $

17,000

Total Contributions: $365,000

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Other External Initiatives:

Imagining America National Conference, New

Orleans, Oct. 2009

Auburn University Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of

Crisis in the Humanities, Invited Presentation, Jan 2010

Humanities Directors Consortium, convening at SU

Humanities Center, (Northeastern, University of Florida,

Auburn) April 2010

Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul Korea,

Distinguished Scholar Intensive Class Series, January 9

– 23, 2010

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2010 Research Initiatives

Sponsored programs: HC S2010 Mini-Seminars: Gabriele Schwab, Gerhard Richter, Cary

Wolfe… Ingebord Bachmann: Writing Against War (Symposium 2010) African Literature 50 Years After (HC Conference) Music, Peace and Reconciliation (Ray Smith-Mellon-Symposium) Point of Contact Exhibition (HC Co-sponsor) University Lectures (2010 Symposium) KJ Rawson, Queer Memory, seminar, March 2010 John Singleton, Religion in Scholarship, April 2010

Total 2010 Symposium sponsorships: $62,000Total s2010 Mellon sponsorships: $46,000Est F2010 Mellon sponsorships: $40,000Other HC sponsorships: $9,000Watson Visiting Collaborator-Mellon Program: $50,000

Total Estimate for SU Programming: $207,000

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Other 2010 Research Initiatives

Perpetual Peace Project

Partner Institutions: United Nations University, International Peace Institute,

European Union Institute of Culture, Slought Foundation, Austrian Embassy

http://www.perpetualpeaceproject.org

HUMANITIES CENTER2009-2011 Humanities Center Research Fellow Programs

HC Dissertation/Thesis Fellowship College A&S Model: University Fellowship or

equivalent awarded to student in participating division (stipend, benefits, credit hours)

One-year residency plus funds for research provided by HC restricted account for activity or conference

http://www.syracusehumanities.org/center/fellowships/

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Celebrating Two Years of the SU Humanities Center