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WFU Humanities Institute celebrates 10 years

The Humanities Institute is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year by gathering stories from faculty about their collaborations with the Institute over the past decade. Building on its liberal arts tradition, Wake Forest established the Humanities Institute to support innovative scholarship and collaboration in October 2010. The Humanities Institute publicly celebrated its launch in March 2011.


Conference on Muslim identity in South Asia to be held Sept. 15-16

A two-day workshop/conference to focus on the issue of Muslim identity in South Asia will be held Sept. 15-16 at Reynolda House Museum of American Art.  The workshop is entitled “Locality, Genre, and Muslim Belonging in South Asia. ” It is organized by M. Raisur Rahman, associate professor of history at Wake Forest, and Razak Khan, research fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies in Gottingen, Germany.


Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar Symposium

The annual Humanities Institute Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar Symposium will take place on Thursday, April 30, in Tribble Hall. The program will begin at 1:30 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium with a round table discussion featuring representatives from each of this year’s interdisciplinary faculty seminars. Following […]


WFU Humanities Institute call for proposals

The Humanities Institute invites proposals for the following programs: • New or Continuing Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminars • Summer Humanities Writing Grants (NEW!) • *Faculty-student Reading Groups in the Humanities • *Faculty-student Collaborative Humanities Research Grants • *Humanities Matters: Problem-Focused Faculty-Student Research • Summer 2015 […]


WFU hosts first of three conferences on Meiji Restoration

On January 30-31, Wake Forest University hosted “The Civil Wars of Japan’s Meiji Restoration & National Reconciliation: Global Historical Perspectives” the initial conference in a multiyear, tri-continental (North America, Europe and Asia) project to facilitate international and interdisciplinary discussions in advance of the […]


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