Summer Institute

The BHC provides financial support for a faculty member to convene either an online or in-person multi-day workshop / conference on a particular research area in the humanities (or humanistic arts / social sciences). The goal of the Summer Institute is to convene a national/international team of scholars to produce new and collaborative knowledge in an area of interdisciplinary inquiry.

Call for proposals for 2026 Summer Institute due January 19th, 2026.

Past Institutes

2025

Eco-Adilet Central Asia: Creating an Environmental Justice Hub

July 25–26 & August 1–2, 2025

Organizer: Prof. Amanda Wooden

2024

Waste Worlding

June 3–6, 2024
Organizer: Prof. Jeremy Chow

2023

Revisioning African Girlhood: Humanizing Girls & Girling Humanity

June 19–30, 2023

Organizer: Prof. Cymone Fourshey

2022

Non/Humanity: Revisioning the Centrality of the Human in the Humanities

June 6–17, 2022

Organizer: Jeremy Chow

2021

Water Ecologies: Interdisciplinary Currents in the Humanities

June 21–July 2, 2021

Organizer: Jeremy Chow