Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

2011-2012 AWARD COMPETITIONS

We are pleased to announce the next round of our award competitions and their deadlines.
TO APPLY: If you are interested in applying to any of our programs, please follow the links below to the corresponding program descriptions and guidelines. Please contact Asya Berger at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  with any questions.

Grant Programs and Deadlines:

Faculty Research Fellowships
Monday, November 7, 2011

Graduate Student Research Fellowships
Monday, November 7, 2011

Grants-in-Aid
October 17, 2011
March 1, 2012

Team-Teaching Stipends
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 

Working Research Group Grants
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 

• Artistic Activism
• Radical Future Pasts: Political Theory and its Contemporary Interlocutors
• The Sylvester Manor Archive

• Addressing the Digital Humanities
• The History of Science
• The Lucrece Project
• Reading Freud as Scientist and Humanist
• Theorizing Sound Writing
• Translation Studies Across the University

UPCOMING 2012 EVENTS

February 15, 5:00PM: Hannah Gurman (NYU) on The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond. With discussant Lloyd Gardner (Professor Emeritus of History, Rutgers U). Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Download poster. Read more...

February 15, 5:30PM: Max Liboiron (HI Fellow, NYU) on Aberrant Waste: Ocean Plastics. This illustrated talk will focus on a single sample of ocean plastics taken from the North Pacific Ocean and follow the threads of how it was collected, how samples are used in science and advocacy, their place in the popular imagination, and how an individual specimen can and cannot scale up to illuminate a new global pollution that will characterize the twenty-first century. Held at Bobst Library, 2nd floor, South wing, Avery Room. RSVP NOW!

February 24, all day: Teaching with Technology Conference, featuring presentations by current NYU faculty on their experiences incorporating technology into their classrooms, as well as information on basic and advanced learning technologies. Speakers will include Kenneth Perlin, Jan Plass, David Schacter, Clay Shirky, Diana Taylor, among others. Co-sponsored by the GSAS, the CAS, NYU Libraries, and the NYU Teaching and Technology Committee. Register here.

February 28, 5:00PM: Elliot Wolfson (NYU) on A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination. Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Download poster. Read more...

March 1, 2:00PM: Writing the Dissertation: Tips and Trouble Spots. Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. RSVP NOW! Read more...

March 28, 6:00PM: Jini Kim Watson (NYU) on The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form. Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Read more...

March 30, 3-5PM: Janis Jenkins (UC-San Diego) on The Land of Enchantment: rage among youth in the American Southwest. Held at 726 Broadway, 5th Floor, Room 542. Part of the Psyences Project speaker series. Please RSVP at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Download the 2011-12 calendar here.

March 30-April 1: 2012 Bioethics Conference: The Moral Brain. RSVP here. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Bioethics, the Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, & the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies. Go to Conference Program.