Mission
Statement
The Franke Institute for the Humanities is both an idea and a place.
Conceptually, it represents the highest research and teaching ambitions
of the University of Chicago, sponsoring creative and innovative
work in established academic disciplines in the arts and humanities
and encouraging new projects that cross traditional disciplinary
and departmental lines. Materially, its physical space--a suite
of offices and public rooms in the Regenstein Library--provides
facilities where scholars and artists can do their work, and where
that work can be tested and disseminated through discussions, debates,
symposia, and public conferences.
The Franke Institute, formerly the Chicago Humanities Institute,
was renamed in honor of Richard J. and Barbara E. Franke in 1998.
The Institute was founded in 1990 to establish both a dedicated
physical place for humanistic thinkers to do their work and a catalytic
initiative to bring together for examination and discussion the
best current ideas on humanities topics. It is at once a research
center--a space for developing ideas and setting up the basis for
intellectual engagements and confrontations--and a public venue
where challenge takes place and where results are performed and
tested.
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