Mission
Statement
The Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute supports collaborative research among Smith College faculty, students and visiting scholars without regard to the traditional boundaries of departments, programs and academic divisions. Each year the Institute supports long-term and short-term projects proposed, planned and organized by members of the Smith College faculty.
Fellows participating in long-term research projects meet weekly throughout the year to develop their research and to critique one another's work-in-progress from the perspective of their own disciplines and intellectual interests. In addition to these discussions, the Fellows of each project may invite visitors to participate in the research colloquia and in public events that are open to the academic community and the broader community of western Massachusetts.
Short-term projects (such as weekend workshops, debates, sounding boards, etc.) provide new contexts for Smith College faculty to explore topics of common intellectual concern that bear on their own research, and may serve as seeds for future long-term projects.
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