Maximum Award: $1,000
Applications are invited for Flash Grants, the Baker-Nord Center's funding mechanism to support greater participation in and connection with Baker-Nord Center’s fall themed programming and the 2025 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.
Click HERE to see previous Flash Grant recipients.
FLASH GRANTS FOR FALL 2024 -
The Baker-Nord Center’s fall programming explores the related concepts of appropriation and representation. Debates about the appropriation of food traditions, fashion, spiritual ceremonies and artifacts, language and writing by dominant groups permeate public discourse and have long been an area of humanistic inquiry. Similarly, institutional ways of representing and remembering individuals, communities and significant events often reveal hidden fault lines. How does the unequal expression of power shape the terrain of how we understand these subjects? Invited guests and the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ community will explore this twinned theme with a focus on opportunities for fruitful engagement.
Please explore the fall program HERE.
Faculty and postdoctoral fellows can apply for up to $1000 to support research and/or projects that relate to the fall theme of ‘appropriation and representation’. This could include but is not limited to:
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beginning new research (or creative inquiry) or advancing current work that involves the concepts of appropriation and representation in some way. Monies can be used for travel, books and materials, the hiring of a research assistant, etc.
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curriculum design: incorporating work of writers and scholars of fall 2024 BNC program into the fall (or spring) classroom and creating a student assignment around those or other texts
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inviting a guest speaker into the classroom to give a talk related to themes of appropriation and representation for fall 2024/spring 2025
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engaging students with themes of speculation that involve a meal, class trip, enhanced learning opportunity, and/or experiences outside the classroom
We especially encourage projects that involve students as mentees, collaborators, research assistants. All projects should conclude by February 28, 2025.
Eligibility:
Grants are available to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and full-time faculty in the arts and humanities within the College of Arts and Sciences including lecturers, instructors, and visiting faculty.
Application Deadline:
Rolling through February 1, 2025
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.
Policies and Expectations:
Within one month of the completion of the project, recipients are required to submit the online . Some aspects of the final report may be used in future BNC's external communication materials.
FLASH GRANTS FOR 2025 CLEVELAND HUMANITIES FESTIVAL: APPETITE -
The theme for the 2025 Cleveland Humanities Festival is APPETITE. Feast. Famine, Ambition. Desire. Craving. Appetite is both a bodily state and an emotive force. As we celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the CHF, we will explore the multifaceted ways that humanistic inquiry has engaged this theme. What do we hunger for in our personal and civic lives? How does longing shape the human psyche? How have artists and makers explored the role of appetite in creative production? What metaphors of appetite resonate across diverse time periods and cultural milieus? How will AI and new technologies impact our collective appetite for knowledge? These questions and more will be addressed by Cleveland area arts, cultural and educational organizations through a series of public events in the spring of 2025.
Faculty can apply for up to $1000 to support research and/or projects that engage with the topic of appetite. This could include but is not limited to:
- beginning new research (or creative inquiry) or advancing current work that involves the concept of appetite. Monies can be used for travel, books and materials, the hiring of a research assistant, etc.
- curriculum design: incorporating the theme of appetite in 2025 classes and creating a student assignment that relates to appetite.
- inviting students to attend one of the 2025 events (forthcoming) and engaging them about their experience in a creative way
- inviting a guest speaker into the classroom to give a talk related to theme of appetite as it relates to class content
- engaging students with the theme of appetite that involve a meal, class trip, enhanced learning opportunity, and/or experiences outside of the classroom
We especially encourage projects that involve students as mentees, collaborators, research assistants. All projects should conclude by April 30, 2025.
Eligibility:
Grants are available to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and full-time faculty in the arts and humanities within the College of Arts and Sciences including lecturers, instructors, and visiting faculty.
Application Deadline:
Rolling through March 31, 2025
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.
Policies and Expectations:
Within one month of the completion of the project, recipients are required to submit the online . Some aspects of the final report may be used in future BNC's external communication materials.