Arts and Humanities

The Imagine Fund seeks proposals from individuals, groups, departments and centers to identify candidates of high distinction in the areas of the Arts, Design and Humanities for the new Visiting Distinguished Chair in the Arts, Humanities or Design.

This new chair will attract a world-class scholar or scholars to spend up to one academic year at the University. This position will be a catalyst with the goal of stimulating wide-ranging discussion on the arts and humanities across the University. The nature of the appointment will be flexible. Chairs will be housed in the Institute for Advanced Study where they will be asked to conduct some of their activities and encouraged to engage the interdisciplinary community at the IAS.

Proposals should include a clear statement of potential impact and activities the Chair might conduct on campus, as well as suggestions as to how the Chair might engage the larger public.

Nominations in the form of a simple one-page summary of the achievements of the potential Visiting Scholar and their potential contributions to University of Minnesota and community culture etc. should be sent to Jon Binks. Please feel free to contact him should you have any additional questions. A selection committee will begin reviewing nominations in mid-February. Nominators need not contact nominees at this point.