Created in 2007, the Humanities Initiative at NYU draws on the talents and energies of our faculty and students across the university to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration in the humanities and arts. To foster and enhance the humanities community at NYU, the Initiative sponsors a number of endeavors aimed at promoting interdisciplinary dialogue, teaching, and research.
Mellon Foundation John D. Sawyer Seminars
JANUARY 30th Internal (NYU) Application Deadline
Submit an internal application for collaborative research on historical and contemporary topics of major scholarly significance. Only one proposal will be submitted on behalf of NYU. READ MORE...
Congrats to Toral Gajarawala, Assistant Professor of English & 2010-11 HI Fellow, for winning the 48th annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the Modern Language Association's journal of literary scholarship. READ MORE...
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
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January 30 Internal (NYU) Deadline for proposals for the Mellon Foundation's JOHN E. SAWYER SEMINARS ON THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CULTURES. NYU has been invited to submit one proposal for a Sawyer Seminar, which was established to provide support for collaborative research on historical and contemporary topics of major scholarly significance. This program aims to engage productive scholars in multi-disciplinary and comparative inquiry that would (in ordinary university circumstances) be difficult to pursue, while at the same time avoiding the institutionalization of such work in new centers, departments, or programs. If your group has an idea for a seminar, please follow your school's procesdures for submitting a proposal for consideration to the Director of Provostial Research Programs. An internal committee will review all applications to select NYU’s proposal for submission to the Foundation. More information...
February 3, 3-5PM: Louis Sass & Elizabeth Pienkos (Rutgers) on The Uncanny Valley: language and mood in schizophrenia, melancholia, and mania. Held at 726 Broadway, 5th Floor, Room 542. Part of the Psyences Project speaker series. Please RSVP at
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February 7, 6:00PM: Ranjana Khanna (Duke U) on The Lumpenproletariat, The Subaltern, The Mental Asylum. Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Download poster. Read more...
February 15, 5:00PM: Hannah Gurman (NYU) on The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond. Held at The Humanities Initiative, 5th Floor. Read more...
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 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-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.
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