Kahn Liberal Arts Institute
Since 1998, the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute has supported collaborative research among Smith and Five College faculty, Smith students and visiting scholars—all without regard to the traditional boundaries of departments, programs and academic divisions. Each year the institute supports long- and short-term projects that are proposed, planned and organized by Smith College faculty.
Announcements
Vegetal Forms: Knowing Time and Place Through Plants
Graham Hall,
April 7, 2023,
5:00 pm
Brief public screenings of work by Smith College Museum of Art’s visiting artist Abdessamad El Montassir and Elaine Gan, Assistant Professor of Science in Society at Wesleyan University, will be followed by an extended Q&A. Learn more about this short-term Kahn project.
A Publication Celebration: Christen Mucher’s and Javier Puente’s New Books
The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center,
April 11, 2023,
4:00 pm
Come engage with two new groundbreaking books from Smith professors: Christen Mucher's Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession and Javier Puente's The Rural State: Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru’s Central Sierra. The evening will include comments by the authors and refreshments.
Neilson Lecture 3. Metabolism Cages for New World Animals, Small and Large
Klingenstein Browsing Room,
April 19, 2023,
5:15 pm
In the final of his Neilson lectures, Anthony Ryan “Tony” Hatch will explore the design history of metabolism cages as carceral technologies that became part of a broader scheme to establish metabolic dominance over multispecies life.
Kahn Institute Porch Party
21 Henshaw,
May 4, 2023,
4:00 pm
At the Kahn
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Research Without Boundaries
“The Kahn Institute is unique. No other college has anything quite like it—an incubator for cross-disciplinary research, debate and colleagueship, and a haven for free speech.”
“Being a Kahn student fellow had a huge influence on me and ultimately inspired me to pursue a doctorate in history.”
Rachel Johnson ’12
