Taking Place, Making Space
With this theme, the Center invites reflection on the salience of spatial paradigms and technologies for humanistic inquiry. From museums to meatpacking plants to outdoor markets, from contemporary urban landscapes and university campuses to 18th-century penitentiaries and workhouses, CHAT fellows from a range of disciplines focus on specific sites to address pressing historical, artistic, ethical, environmental, and social questions including the consequences of displacement, dispossession, and discrimination; the aesthetics of sonorous and visual emplacement; and the politics and possibilities of reclamation. By making space to take place seriously, the Center aims to foster innovative approaches to vital topics in the arts, the humanities, and the humanistic social sciences.
If you would like to explore past themes, you can find them here.
