Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)

Established in 1988, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) serves as a site for the discussion of issues germane to the fostering of crossdisciplinary activity and as a network for the circulation of information and the sharing of resources. It boasts a worldwide membership of over 150 centers and institutes that are remarkably diverse in size and scope and are located in the United States, Australia, Canada, Finland, Taiwan, Ireland, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and other countries. The CHCI is an affiliate of the American Council of Learned Societies.

History

From 2000-2007, CHCI's administrative operations were located at the Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where Marjorie Garber served as the organization's President. In Spring 2007, CHCI’s administrative offices relocated to the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University. With this move, FHI Director Srinivas Aravamudan began a five-year term as President of CHCI.

Annual Meetings

CHCI annual meetings are hosted by a different member organization each year. The theme of the 2008 meeting, to be held at Washington University in St. Louis, is “the Humanities in an Age of Science." The 2007 meeting, "Regional Logics," addressed the relationship between the local and the global in humanistic research.

Past discussion topics have included "the Fate of the Disciplines," the relationship between academic and public audiences, representations of "the past" in contemporary scholarship, and the interplay between gender and knowledge.

The International Advisory Board of the CHCI

The following are the current members of the international advisory board for the CHCI:

• Srinivas Aravamudan, President, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University

• Marjorie Garber, Former President, Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

• Caroline Levander, Center for the Study of Cultures, Rice University

• Gail Kern Paster, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library

• Gerald Early, Center for Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis

• Emory Elliott, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside

• Hsiung Ping-chen, Ming-Ch'ing Studies Group, Academia Sinica

• Iain McCalman, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University

• James Chandler, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago

• John Bender, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University

• Jonathan Crewe, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College

• Kathleen Woodward, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

• Mary Jacobus, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge • Michael Steinberg, Cogut Humanities Center, Brown University

• Robert Ritchie, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

• Susan Manning, The Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh

• Susanne Wofford, The Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Victor Bailey, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas

• Wiljan van den Akker, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Research Institutes, Humanities and Social Sciences

External links

* [http://www.chcinetwork.org/ CHCI]
* [http://www.chcinetwork.org/ CHCI Advisory Board]
* [http://www.acls.org/ American Council of Learned Societies]
* [http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/ Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University]

Links to CHCI Members

* [http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=288&CFID=3493442&CFTOKEN=197f1a2e59d319ed-4919A9C2-3473-0E4E-C20FAF20938A34C0 The Folger Shakespeare Library]
* [http://hum.uchicago.edu/frankeinstitute/ Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago]
* [http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/ Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University]
* [http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/ Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas]
* [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/ Humanities Center at Harvard]
* [http://humanitiesinstitute.utexas.edu/ Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin]
* [http://www.ucd.ie/hii/ Humanities Institute of Ireland]
* [http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/ Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University]
* [http://www.huntington.org/ Huntington Library]
* [http://www.iprh.uiuc.edu/ The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities]
* [http://www.newberry.org/ The Newberry Library]