“The grant projects represent the very best of humanities scholarship and programming,” said National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William Adams in an IU press release. “NEH is proud to support programs that illuminate the great ideas and events of our past, broaden access to our nation’s many cultural resources and open up for us new ways of understanding the world in which we live.”
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $36.6 million nationwide, according to the release.
The IU-Bloomington project received $191,592. “Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities” is a three-week seminar for 25 college and university faculty who will study the arts and culture of Accra, Ghana; Lagos, Nigeria; Nairobi, Kenya; New Orleans; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The three-week seminar will bring high school and college educators and graduate students, to IU-Bloomington in July. Participants will also spend a weekend in New Orleans.
“We aim to enable seminar presenters and participants to develop a deeper understanding of the lives of individual cities, their challenges and possibilities, and a broad view of the richness, complexity and diversity of contemporary urban experiences across Africa and Africa’s Atlantic diaspora,” said project leader and IU Institute for Advanced Study Director Eileen Julien in the release.
The agency is one of the nation’s largest funders of humanities programs, according to its website.
