Project Grant TD30707926

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $200,000 to the City of Englewood, New Jersey through the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to implement the "Humanities for All: Expanding Library Services in Multiple Languages" project from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The grant funds will be used by the Public Library of Englewood to retain one staff position and create four new ones to conduct multilingual programming in Spanish, Korean,...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $515,000 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant to support the 12th annual Slash Filmfestival in Vienna, Austria. The Slash Filmfestival, organized by the nonprofit Verein ZUR Foerderung DES Fantastischen Films, will showcase international productions of fantastic film from September 23 through October 3, 2021 across three venues. The grant funding will support the festival's operations through the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $298,782 Project Grant to The Washington University in Missouri for the "Translating the Americas: Early Modern Jewish Writings on the New World" project. The goal is to complete the first translations of two 16th-century Jewish texts: Joseph Ha-Kohen's "Book of New India" and Luis de Carvajal's spiritual autobiography and religious works. Ha-Kohen's work is a modified Hebrew translation of Francisco de Gómara's...

WNET received a $1.2 million Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to produce a two-hour PBS documentary titled "The First Folio: The Making of Shakespeare." The documentary will mark the 400th anniversary of the first published collection of William Shakespeare's plays, known as the First Folio, by recounting the process of locating, correcting and printing...

The University of Southern California received a $1,073,466 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce a four-part documentary series titled "VOCES DE LAS ABUELAS: GRANDMOTHERS' FOOD STORIES FROM THE BORDERLANDS." The series will explore how individual, regional, national and transnational identities are shaped through food practices and culture by filming and recording the unique food cultures of Mexican and Mexican-American grandmothers living in...

The University of Chicago received a $298,954 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.161 - Promotion of the Humanities Research) to produce the first accurate, annotated, and illustrated English translation of Pu Songling's "Liaozhai's Chronicles of the Strange." This collection of nearly 500 Chinese literary tales from 1766 is highly influential but remains largely inaccessible to non-Chinese-reading audiences. The project aims to make this...

This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the refinement and scaling of the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence Translation Interface (DAILP TI) prototype developed by Northeastern University. The DAILP TI is a digital platform that leverages DAILP's lexical datasets and resources to produce digital edited collections of translated and annotated indigenous language documents. This...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $100,000 under its Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Texas A&M University-San Antonio for a project titled "Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." The funding will support hosting a conference in May 2024 in San Antonio, TX co-sponsored by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The conference will generate essays exploring Shakespearean...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) provides $600,000 to support the production of a feature documentary film titled "DIEGO & FRIDA IN DETROIT". The film will explore the life and art of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo during their time in 1930s Detroit, and the lasting impact they had on the city's cultural identity and political history. The project will be carried out by Women Make...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $699,598 Project Grant on August 1, 2023 to The Center for Independent Documentary, Inc., a non-profit organization, to produce a two-hour documentary film titled "HANNAH ARENDT: THINKING IS DANGEROUS". The film will explore the life and influential work of the renowned 20th century political theorist Hannah Arendt, focusing on her insights into the crisis of democracy, the rise of totalitarianism, and the "banality of...