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IHR Fellows Theme is announced

Monday, October 12, 2009 1:08 pm - Friday, October 30, 2009 1:08 pm

The 2010-2011 IHR Fellows theme is "The Humanities and Human Origins."

2009-2010 Research Clusters

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:25 pm - Monday, September 14, 2009 11:59 pm

Join a research cluster! 

2009 Transdisciplinary Book Award Announced

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 11:29 am - Monday, August 3, 2009 11:29 am

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2009 IHR Transdisciplinary Book Award.

2009 Faculty Achievement Award Given to IHR Director

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:09 pm - Wednesday, May 6, 2009 2:09 pm

Congratulations!  IHR director, Sally Kitch, is the recipient of the 2009 Faculty Achievement Award for "Defining Edge: Research/Creative Activities." The award will be presented in April by ASU's Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures

Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:13 pm - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:13 pm

 The IHR Seed Grant team Building an Academic Destination: The ASU Repository of Palm Leaf Manuscripts from Sri Lanka has published their book, Buddhist Manuscript Cultures; Knowledge, ritual, and art. 

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made.

 
Collectively, the book offers cross-cultural and comparative insights into the transmission of Buddhist knowledge and the use of texts and images as ritual objects in the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Buddhist cultures. Drawing on case studies from India, Gandhara, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mongolia, China and Nepal, the chapters included investigate the range of interests and values associated with producing and using written texts, and the roles manuscripts and images play in the transmission of Buddhist texts and in fostering devotion among Buddhist communities.
 
Contributions are by reputed scholars in Buddhist Studies and represent diverse disciplinary approaches from religious studies, art history, anthropology, and history. This book will be of interest to scholars and students working in these fields.
 

IHR Seed Grant Awards

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:14 am

The seed grant projects funded in the fall 2008 competition are now posted on our web page.   Check out research being conducted by humanities faculty.

2008-2009 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award

Monday, December 8, 2008 10:07 am

This year we will honor a book of academic non-fiction by an Arizona State University humanities faculty member on any campus.

To be eligible, books must be written in English, published in 2007 or 2008, and written or co-written by a tenured or tenure-track, full-time ASU faculty member whose work reflects the finest contemporary transdisciplinary humanities-based scholarship on any topic.*

Deadline for nominations: February 16, 2009

Further information and guidelines can be found here

Welcome to our New Website!

Monday, October 20, 2008

We've redesigned our website with the new ASU template, moved to the Drupal content management system,  and updated our navigation to make information even easier to find. There's a new sitemap option on the blue navigation bar and a new calendar under "Events & Activities". Let us know what you think of the new design on our contact page.