Four faculty-led arts programs are the first recipients of funding through the Emory Initiative for Arts and Humanistic Inquiry. Launched in fall 2023, the initiative seeks to advance understanding of the human experience and respond to today’s challenges by funding creative programming, recruiting faculty in the arts and humanities and supporting expanded programming at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
In October 2023, the Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative announced a request for proposals — which continue to be accepted from all Emory faculty on a rolling basis — to fund creative programming. Proposals can include (but are not limited to) workshops, performances, discussions and readings that directly nurture scholarship and build community around the arts and humanities.
Underwritten by the Office of the Provost, the Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative recently awarded grants to four programs.
“The Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative is an investment that demonstrates Emory’s enduring commitment to the arts and humanities,” says Ravi V. Bellamkonda, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. “The programs it funds will create new opportunities for our faculty, students and staff to advance our understanding of the world and ourselves through creative expression.
“I’m grateful to Lanny Liebeskind, senior vice provost for academic affairs, as well as the Arts and Humanistic Inquiry faculty advisory committee, our deans and schools for supporting this purposeful exploration of the human experience,” Bellamkonda adds.
The first round of funded programming will focus on Asian performance forms; jazz music and the African American experience; documentaries and ethical storytelling; and film and public arts. Highly interdisciplinary, the programs will connect Emory students, faculty and staff with leading artists and scholars in curricular, extracurricular and public…
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