Applications are invited for Flash Grants, the Baker-Nord Center’s new funding mechanism to support greater participation in and connection with Baker-Nord Center’s fall themed programming and the 2024 Cleveland Humanities Festival.

These grants are designed to encourage curiosity, innovation, experimentation, collaboration and engagement.

Funding projects may be featured in Baker-Nord Center materials and on the Baker-Nord Center website.

FLASH GRANTS FOR FALL 2023 –

The Baker-Nord Center’s fall programming explores the concept of ‘speculation’. Increasingly, daily life propels us into situations that involve navigating risk, adaption, and precarity. Speculation and by extension ‘the speculative’ have encouraged scholars and artists to ask questions about the status quo, the overlooked and taken for granted, archival silences and the boundaries of knowledge production. Invited guests and the CWRU community will explore this theme with a focus on imagining the possibilities that it enables.

Please explore the fall program HERE.

Graduate and Undergraduate students are welcome to apply for up to $500 for projects that relate to the fall theme of “speculation.”  This could include but is not limited to:

-beginning new research (or creative inquiry) or advancing current work that involves the concept of the speculative and/or speculation in some way. Monies can be used for travel, books and materials.

-community and/or campus based projects (e.g. engaging peers about themes of speculation that involve a discussion and meal, enhanced learning opportunity, and/or experiences outside the classroom)

All projects should conclude by February 28, 2024.

Eligibility:

Grants are available to graduate students the arts and humanities within the College of Arts and Sciences and undergraduate students who have declared a major in the humanities.

Application Deadline:

Rolling through February 15, 2024

To Apply:

Please send a 500 word narrative proposal along with a detailed budget to bakernord@case.edu.  Proposal should include clear objective(s), a project timeline, and the names and departments of all collaborators.

FLASH GRANTS FOR 2024 CLEVELAND HUMANITIES FESTIVAL: AWE –

The theme for the 2024 Humanities Festival is Awe. Wonder. Reverence. Humility. Intensity.  Fear.  Awe is a complex emotional and cognitive state that can be triggered by a variety of experiences. How have diverse cultures across time harnessed the profound to create art, sculpt beliefs, and shape the course of history? Are there universal truths about awe, or is it deeply personal? What are the ways that feelings of awe have been mobilized for political purposes? Does the intricate dance of biology and ecology in nature inspire the same awe as a timeless masterpiece? How has our understanding of the evolutionary value of awe changed over time?  These questions will be addressed by Cleveland area arts, cultural and educational organizations through a series of public events in the spring of 2024.

Graduate and Undergraduate students are welcome to apply for up to $500 for projects that advance research or explore the theme of awe. This could include but is not limited to:

-beginning new research (or creative inquiry) or advancing current work that involves the concept of awe in some way. Monies can be used for travel, books and materials.

-community and/or campus based projects (e.g. engaging peers about themes of awe that involve a discussion and meal, enhanced learning opportunity, and/or experiences outside the classroom)

All projects should conclude by April 30, 2024.

Eligibility:

Grants are available to graduate students the arts and humanities within the College of Arts and Sciences and undergraduate students who have declared a major in the humanities.

Application Deadline:

Rolling through March 31, 2024

To Apply:

Please send a 500 word narrative proposal along with a detailed budget to bakernord@case.edu.  Proposal should include clear objective(s), a project timeline, and the names and departments of all collaborators.