NEH Summer Institute: Space, Place, and the Humanities – NEH Summer Institute: Space, Place, and the Humanities

Catherine D’Ignazio and Andi Sutton, Boston Coastline: Future Past, Boston, MA, 2015. Photo by Kevin Sweet.
National TLC Service (Sarah Kanouse and Shiloh Krupar), National Cold War Monuments and Environmental Heritage Trail: A Colorado Design Charrette, Colorado Spring, CO, 2016.
Nicholas Brown, “Deer Island,” 2015.
Nicholas Brown, “Future Site of the Deer Island Native American Memorial,” 2015.
Paul Lloyd Sargent, Landscapes of Erasure: Lost Villages of Canada, Lock 21 at Dickinson's Landing under the St. Lawrence River, Long Sault, ON, May 2012.
Temporary Travel Office (Ryan Griffis), Right to the Riparian City, Cleveland, OH, 2012.
Temporary Travel Office (Ryan Griffis), Right to the Riparian City, Cleveland, OH, 2012.
Water Bar and Public Studio (Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker) with Healing Place Collaborative, and Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye (Dakota Language Society), Dakhóta Water Bar, Saint Paul, MN, 2016.

Project title: Space, Place, and the Humanities
Dates: July 24-August 11, 2017
Location: The Humanities Center, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Description: “Space, Place, and the Humanities” is a three-week summer institute hosted by the Humanities Center at Northeastern University in the newly-emerging, interdisciplinary field of Geohumanities. At the intersection of geography, history, literature, creative arts, and social justice, Geohumanities focuses on the role of space and place in a range of humanities disciplines.

The aim of this Institute is to help scholars in humanities disciplines integrate spatial thinking into their research and teaching in new ways. Prominent scholars from cultural geography, literary studies and the digital humanities will lead the Institute, foregrounding the study of space and place as an interdisciplinary endeavor.

Building on foundational texts from across the humanities, participants will use the city of Boston as a laboratory for exploration. The Institute has arranged field visits in Boston- area archives, the Boston Public Library map collection, and guided walks by scholars and practicing artists who engage humanistic scholarship.

Participants will enjoy ample time to interact with the faculty and with each other and will leave the institute with both a syllabus and a developed research plan for a paper or grant proposal. We welcome applications from scholars with some experience using space and place as key themes in their teaching and research, as well as scholars who are looking to begin such an engagement.

Application deadline: March 1, 2017

Notification date: March 31, 2017

Stipend details: $2,700

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.