The Wake Forest University Humanities Institute establishes programs and provides funding for university faculty in the humanities and other fields of study engaging in humanistic inquiry and scholarship. We are a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the National Humanities Alliance (NHA). The Institute fosters collaboration among faculty, and between faculty and students, to generate new scholarship and creative work, inspire new directions in teaching, and create vibrant university-wide networks in interdisciplinary humanities, digital humanities, narrative medicine, and the engaged humanities. Since its founding in 2010, the Institute has collaborated with university faculty across disciplines in the humanities, arts, social sciences, sciences, and the schools of law, medicine, divinity, and business. | |
A Note from Jennifer Greiman, Humanities Institute Director | |
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Welcome to the new academic year from all of us at the Humanities Institute! Each month our newsletter highlights upcoming events on campus that Wake Forest faculty organize with sponsorship from the HI — for instance, the timely and important lecture on Islamophobia and antisemitism by Professor Khaled Beydoun on September 18th. But much of the core work that the HI does each year is ongoing, and all that work is getting underway this month.
Among the most significant part of our programming involves our interdisciplinary faculty seminars and workshops, and this year we are happy to support five groups of faculty, who will be engaging in discussion and collective study on the following topics: Building Campus Community through Art (convened by Andrea Gomez Cervantes, Sociology), Genocide and Memory Studies (co-convened by Lisa Blee and Barry Trachtenberg, History), Global Migrations and Refugees (convened by Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Religion and MESAS), Language Theory and Artificial Intelligence (convened by Ryan Shirey, English / Writing Program), and the Promises and Perils of Late Capitalism (convened by Sara Dahill-Brown, Politics). The topics and participants change each year, and we seek proposals for the coming year each April.
Another of our major, longstanding initiatives are the monthly Narrative Medicine Lunch and Learn sessions, a collaboration between the HI and the School of Medicine that are entering their eighth year as the Story Health and Healing Initiative welcomes its second cohort of graduate students into the Narrative Medicine Certificate program. And we will be starting a new regular program this semester: Just Write. These are weekly sessions, held every Friday afternoon, where we simply provide coffee and tea, time and space for faculty to focus on writing. Finally, please join us for an in-person welcome to all of our new faculty at our Fall Reception on September 26th!
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Jennifer Greiman
Humanities Institute Director
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Humanities Institute Fall Reception to Welcome New Faculty, Thursday, September 26th, 5:00-6:30pm | Reynolda Patio | |
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The Humanities Institute will host its annual Fall Reception to Welcome New Faculty from 5:00-6:30pm on Thursday, September 26th on the Reynolda Patio (rain location: Reynolda Hall Green Room).
Join the Humanities Institute for an informal celebration of the fall semester. Light refreshments, including beer and wine, will be served, and we will share information about how the Humanities Institute can support you and your work, whether or not you teach in a humanities department. Don't forget to pick up a Humanities Institute t-shirt while you're there!
Please invite your departmental colleagues and any other faculty members you think might be interested in working with the Humanities Institute.
RSVPs are due to mephamam@wfu.edu by Monday, September 23rd. Contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, with questions.
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Just Write. Begins on Friday, September 6th
3:00-5:00pm | Heritage Room, Reynolda Hall
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Do you need a change of scenery from your campus and/or home office? Are you looking for a writing community, but not another critique group? Are you looking, in other words, for a space to "just write"? If so, the HI has a solution.
The Humanities Institute's new program Just Write. will begin from 3:00-5:00pm on Friday, September 6th in the Heritage Room in Reynolda Hall. It will continue every Friday at the same time and location throughout the 2024 Fall Semester (with the exception of September 13th and October 25th, alternate locations for those dates TBA). It is open to all faculty working in the humanities.
The HI will provide space and coffee, you do the rest. Please click here to register. We hope to see you there!
If you have any questions, contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, at mephamam@wfu.edu.
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Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn Begins Its Eighth Year with Fall 2024 Workshop Sessions | |
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Narrative Medicine: Lunch & Learn is a monthly workshop – free and open to all WFU students, faculty, staff, and community members – that introduces participants to Narrative Medicine and its core principles of close reading and reflective writing. The series is sponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, & Healing Initiative, made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Sessions are facilitated by Aimee Mepham, Associate Director of the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute and Ethan Stonerook, Assistant Professor and Director of Student Services in the Department of PA Studies.
This fall marks the eighth year of the series, and we will continue to offer both in-person and online sessions (lunch is provided at the in-person sessions). See below for the Fall 2024 schedule and registration details.
In-Person Sessions
In-person sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm at Wake Downtown (Room TBA) on the following Fridays:
September 20th
October 18th
November 22nd
December 6th
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ONE OR ALL SESSIONS
Online Sessions
Online sessions will be offered through Zoom from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays:
September 19th
October 17th
November 21st
December 5th
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ONE OR ALL SESSIONS
Once registered, you will receive an email with the readings for each session.
Please share this information with your networks. To learn more about the Story, Health, & Healing initiative's programming, visit humanitiesinstitute.wfu.edu/narrative-medicine.
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"Faith in Whiteness: The Roots and Modern Rise of Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Their Intersections"
A Talk by Professor Khaled Beydoun, Arizona State University Wednesday, September 18th, 6:00-7:30pm | Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium (Room 404)
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On Wednesday, September 18th the Jewish Studies Program welcomes Professor Khaled A. Beydoun to give the talk, "Faith In Whiteness: The Roots and Modern Rise of Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Their Intersections" from 6:00-7:30pm in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium (Room 404).
Professor Khaled A. Beydoun is an Associate Professor of Law at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He joined ASU in 2023, and also serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. He is author of the critically acclaimed book American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, co-editor of Islamophobia and the Law, published by University of Cambridge Press, and author of The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims.
This event has also received support from the following WFU organizations: the Department for the Study of Religions, the Middle East and South Asian Studies program, the Department of Politics and International Affairs, the American Ethnic Studies program, and the Humanities Institute (with support made possible from a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities).
Click here to read more
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Now accepting applications:
2025-26 Society for the Humanities at Cornell University
Residential Fellowships (Deadline: September 20th)
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The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars whose projects reflect on the 2025-26 theme of Scale. Up to six fellows will be appointed. The fellowships are held for one year (August through July). Each Society Fellow will receive $62,000.
Fellows should be working on topics related to the 2025-26 theme of Scale. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines. Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2024. The Society for the Humanities will not consider applications from scholars who received the Ph.D. after this date. Applicants must also have one or more years of teaching experience, which may include teaching as a graduate student. International scholars are welcome to apply, contingent upon visa eligibility.
The deadline to apply is September 20, 2024.
Awards will be announced by the end of December 2024.
Questions? Email humctr@cornell.edu
Website: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu
Click for full description and complete application details
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