The Global Midwest: Over the next two years, HWW will distribute $1.5 million to support projects exploring dimensions of the “global Midwest.” There are no preconceptions about how best to interpret the term: the consortium seeks proposals that illuminate the regional experience in a variety of innovative, challenging and creatively engaged ways. All arts, humanities and interpretive social-science disciplines are eligible. Alongside traditional research projects, HWW especially welcomes ideas for new forms of scholarly collaboration and public engagement, including curricular innovation, performances, exhibitions, civic dialogues, or digital media.
Starting March 2014, HWW consortium members will make available $30K to support initial development of Global Midwest projects, including funds for travel, preliminary conferences, research support, feasibility studies or archival preparation. A formal RfP will be announced in August 2014. HWW anticipates $750,000 available in each of two granting rounds, for a total of $1.5 million.
Public Humanities Fellowship for Predoctoral Students: HWW and the Chicago Humanities Festival will co-sponsor a three-week workshop in Chicago for pre-doctoral graduate students in all arts, humanities and qualitative social-science disciplines in summer 2015. Students will work with cultural institutions and public humanities practitioners throughout the city to learn skills and strategies associated with public scholarship, civic engagement and humanities-based cultural development. Students will receive a $5000 stipend, and housing in the Chicago area.
HWW@OSU: The Humanities Institute will host a project-development workshop for Global Midwest proposals in early March 2014.
For more information on HWW and the Global Midwest initiative, contact Rick Livingston (Livingston.28@osu.edu). For the Public Humanities Fellowship program, contact Paul Reitter (Reitter.4@osu.edu).
A consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes from 15 universities across the Midwest. Funded by the Mellon Foundation and based at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, HWW seeks to promote innovative modes of collaborative research, teaching and engagement across institutions of higher education.
