HRCR - The Rice Seminars Program - Topic

Organization: Humanities Research Center at Rice

The Rice Seminars Program is an initiative of the Dean of Humanities, funded by the Humanities Research Center and the School of Humanities. The Seminars are designed to promote humanistic research, broadly understood, by bringing together a select group of scholars to study a common theme from several disciplinary perspectives. The most visible goal of the seminar will be scholarly publications by the participants, including an edited book to which all participants will contribute. Equally important but less visible will be the creation of international and interdisciplinary scholarly communities that will outlive the seminar itself. After the year in residence, seminar participants will attend two follow-up meetings over the next year primarily aimed towards completing the book publication or some other appropriate outcome. The topic of the Rice Seminars will change every year.