SNFPHI has now selected its third cohort of Greek public humanities projects. Seven projects in the fields of history, creative arts, and education will receive support over a 14-month period to bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for the Greek public. The new projects are based in Athens, Delos, Didymoteicho, Kalamata, Larisa, and the Small Cyclades (Ano Koufonisi, Donousa, Schoinoussa, and Irakleia) and work with local history, collective memory, municipal archives, material culture, private book collections, and vernacular architecture and will result in a theater play, an outdoor walking museum and online exhibition, a digital archive, sign language poetry, podcasts with incarcerated students, an open-access community-administered electronic cataloging platform, and the restoration of a 19th-century farmer’s house in Delos.
The Initiative supports the transformative work of a new generation of arts professionals and educators, and seeks to maximize their social impact throughout Greece and beyond by leveraging the reciprocal benefits that the University and public humanities practitioners offer one another. The University, through the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, will provide project members access both to world-class scholars and creative thinkers, and to expertise in areas such as digital humanities, oral history, curation, and community-based educational programming. It will also facilitate outreach efforts and networking with partners beyond Greece. In turn, project leaders will bring into the pedagogic and intellectual life of the University their knowledge of the contemporary Greek cultural landscape, innovative educational practices, and ground-up institution-building.
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