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.

Kahn Institute Alum Wins Oscar

• On Sunday, February 26, 2012, Smith and Kahn Institute alum Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ’02, won an Oscar for the documentary Saving Face, a film chronicling a London-based plastic surgeon who travels to Pakistan to treat women who have been doused with acid in attacks often carried out by spurned lovers or angry husbands. Click here to read more.
  

Kahn Institute Lectures

• Each year, the Kahn Institute and its long- and short-term projects present a series of lectures by distinguished visiting scholars and artists. Audio recordings of those lectures are now available for 2011-2012 talks. Click here for more information.