“Space, Place, and the Humanities” is a three-week summer institute hosted by the Humanities Center at Northeastern University in the newly-emerging, interdisciplinary field of Geohumanities. At the intersection of geography, history, literature, creative arts, and social justice, Geohumanities focuses on the role of space and place in a range of humanities disciplines.

The aim of this Institute is to help scholars in humanities disciplines integrate spatial thinking into their research and teaching in new ways. Prominent scholars from cultural geography, literary studies and the digital humanities will lead the Institute, foregrounding the study of space and place as an interdisciplinary endeavor.

Building on foundational texts from across the humanities, participants will use the city of Boston as a laboratory for exploration. The Institute has arranged field visits in Boston- area archives, the Boston Public Library map collection, and guided walks by scholars and practicing artists who engage humanistic scholarship.

Participants will enjoy ample time to interact with the faculty and with each other and will leave the institute with both a syllabus and a developed research plan for a paper or grant proposal. We welcome applications from scholars with some experience using space and place as key themes in their teaching and research, as well as scholars who are looking to begin such an engagement.