Past Long-Term Projects

Strengthening the Foundation of Teaching & Learning: A Sherrerd—Kahn Collaboration

How, when, and why do we learn best? How can we anchor our teaching in evidence-based principles to ...

• October 9, 2024

Possible Futures: AI and Human Experience

The proliferation of AI is tied to an unprecedented reshaping of the human experience throughout soc...

• September 14, 2023

Vegetal Forms: Knowing Place and Time Through Plants

Plants come in a multitude of forms, and these forms are both aesthetically arresting and informativ...

• September 14, 2023

(Re)visioning Human Rights, Democracy, and the Liberal Arts

The time is right to bring robust human rights education to the Five College Consortium. The battle ...

• September 1, 2023

Common Grounds: Toward (Re)Thinking Global Indigeneity

Common Grounds seeks scholars working on topics that address the indigenous question “within” urgent...

• September 1, 2022

Health and Medicine, Culture and Society: Crossroads in a Liberal Arts Education

This semester-long project recognizes our current moment as an opportune one, especially as we navig...

• September 1, 2022

Democracies Redux: Resumptions, Resilience, Reconciliation, and Restoration

Democracies Redux is an invitation to open up what democracies might mean, carry, and create, when r...

• September 9, 2021

Year on Democracies

The Kahn Liberal Arts Institute is partnering with the Provost's Office for the next campus-wide the...

• September 9, 2021

Coping with Democratic Precarity and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal

Mindful of the broad, varied, and rich research opportunities that are linked to the theme of democr...

• February 1, 2021

Technophilia/Technoskepticism

Thinking expansively about technology and its work in the world, this yearlong Kahn seminar invites ...

• September 1, 2020

Imagining Climate Change: From Slow Violence to Fast Hope

This yearlong Kahn project will bring together scholars from across the disciplines to ask how clima...

• September 1, 2020

Fear

This yearlong Kahn project aims to address the power of fear—to destroy and subvert, but also to cre...

• September 1, 2019

TranslationS

Translation at its best both bridges and recognizes difference. At a time of intensive globalization...

• September 1, 2019

Food

In this Kahn project, we invite scholars of food from across the liberal arts curriculum (as well as...

• September 1, 2018

Refugees

This Kahn project seeks to draw together faculty from a wide range of fields whose work intersects w...

• February 1, 2018

Destroy then Restore

This year-long project explores the dynamic interaction between human societies and natural processe...

• September 1, 2017

War

This year-long Kahn project will bring together scholars from across the disciplines whose work touc...

• September 1, 2017

Modes and Models of Making

In this yearlong Kahn project we are interested in exploring how the idea of "making" infuses our se...

• September 1, 2016

Shaping Perception

This year-long Kahn project will explore the concept of "perception" as an essential form of human e...

• September 1, 2016

Play

This one-semester project aims to approach play from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in order...

• February 1, 2016

Memory

This yearlong project aims to consider the great range of mechanisms, uses and representations of me...

• September 1, 2015