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We would like to thank the Mellon
Foundation and Humanities Research Center for generously sponsoring this
Seminar. For more information on each please click the links below.
Mellon Foundation
The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas:
Higher Education and Scholarship, Scholarly Communications and Information
Technology, Museums and Art Conservation, Performing Arts, and Conservation and
the Environment. Within each of its core programs, the Foundation
concentrates most of its grantmaking in a few areas. Institutions and programs
receiving support are often leaders in fields of Foundation activity, but they
may also be promising newcomers, or in a position to demonstrate new ways of
overcoming obstacles to achieve program goals.
Our grantmaking philosophy is to build, strengthen and sustain
institutions and their core capacities, rather than be a source for narrowly
defined projects. As such, we develop thoughtful, long-term collaborations with
grant recipients and invest sufficient funds for an extended period to
accomplish the purpose at hand and achieve meaningful results.
Humanities
Research Center
The Humanities Research Center fosters scholarly research and
intellectual community in the humanities broadly understood, facilitates
scholarly work between the School of Humanities and other areas of Rice
University, and leads institutional change by partnering with other
foundations, centers, research institutions, and universities. The Center
strives to bring a dynamic element to research and teaching by developing
"intellectual liquidity" within and between the humanities and the
sciences, information and communications technologies, and the professions.
Furthermore, the Center serves as the nucleus within the
University where the disciplinary changes that will shape its future can be
profitably reflected on and anticipated. For a university the size of Rice,
these collaborations - both within the university and beyond it - are crucial
to stimulating innovation and new research. In short, the Center is an agent of
intellectual integration, within and beyond the School of Humanities.
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