NEWS
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT
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The Franke Institute for the Humanities has worked with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes to draft a statement of solidarity with Black Lives Matter and related movements around the world. We post it here on behalf of CHCI and as a declaration of the Institute’s own values and commitments: Solidarity Statement.
For more on the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and this statement, please see CHCI's website.
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Franke Residential Fellowship Recipients, 2023-24
On behalf of the Governing Board of the Franke Institute, we are delighted to announce the 2023-24 Franke Faculty Residential Fellows:
Noel Blanco Mourelle
Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures
Learning Machines: Lullism as a Technological Fiction
Elizabeth Chatterjee
Assistant Professor, History
Energy Emergency: Climate Shocks and Fossil Fuels in Indira Gandhi’s India
Alexis Chema
Assistant Professor, English Language & Literature
Extravaganza: A Theory of Popular Poetry in the Era of Reading
Margareta Ingrid Christian
Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
The Sociopoetics of Density (1889-1931)
Noémie Ndiaye
Associate Professor, English Language & Literature
Early Modernity in Black and Brown
SJ Zhang
Assistant Professor, English Language & Literature
Going Maroon and Other Forms of Family
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Erik Zyman
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
On the Symmetry Between Merge and Adjoin
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On behalf of the Governing Board of the Franke Institute, we are delighted to announce the 2023-24 Affiliated Faculty Fellow:
Steven Rings
Associate Professor, Music
Ambient Contradictions: Spirituality, Politics, and Race in Immersive Musics
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On behalf of the Governing Board of the Franke Institute, we are delighted to announce the 2023-24 Franke Dissertation Completion Residential Fellows:
Sasha Crawford-Holland
Doctoral Fellow, Cinema & Media Studies
Making Sense of Heat: Epistemic Media and the Governance of Thermal Perception
Beatrice Fazio
Doctoral Fellow, Romance Languages & Literatures
Going the Distance: The Coherence of Tradition from Petrarch to Leopardi
Sanghee Kim
Doctoral Fellow, Linguistics
Encoding and Retrieval of Discourse Structure during Language Comprehension
Ethan Waddell
Doctoral Fellow, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Listening to South Korean Music through Popular Songs, 1950s-1970s
The 2022-23 Franke Bulletin
The Franke Bulletin newsletter for 2022-23 is available to view or download at the top of the Newsletters page.
Humanities Without Walls Consortium, 2023
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As a member of the HWW Consortium, the Franke Institute is delighted to congratulate Professor Na'ama Rokem, and the Bronzeville Historical Society, for their three-year award of $150,000 for "Studying Oak Woods" from the Humanities Without Walls Consortium (HWW), provided by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The HWW Consortium is headquartered at the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
“Studying Oak Woods”
PI: Na’ama Rokem, University of Chicago
This project supports the documentation and preservation work done by the Bronzeville Historical Society at Oak Woods Cemetery, a historic site located in Woodlawn, Chicago. The primary focus is on the notable African Americans buried at this site, and on the social and cultural contexts that it is embedded in. Through research, public programing, teaching, and documentation, we aim to create new knowledge and increase public interest in this important site.
More about: HWW's final Grand Research Challenge
In Memoriam​
The Franke Institute for the Humanities mourns the loss of
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RICHARD J. FRANKE
23 June 1931 - 15 April 2022
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Rich was a visionary, a supporter of humanistic research, teaching and engagement at every level—and, with his wife Barbara, the warmest of friends. We are honored to bear his name and inspired to carry forward his ideals, now more than ever:
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“We need to make the humanities available not merely for survival in an increasingly commercial world, but for the sake of democracy.”
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