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European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres
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ECHIC Annual Conference 2015: minutes and videos
ECHIC Board would like to cordially thank everyone who participated in this year's conference! The minutes of the Annual Meeting are attached to this message. We also encourage you to have a look at the video recordings of the conference proceedings that are now available on ECHIC website:
If you wish to see some photos from the event, please see ECHIC website or Facebook gallery of ICS.
We also like to extend our gratitude to the hosts of the conference: Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra.
We hope that you had productive discussions and we look forward to seeing you next year!
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Save the date: Annual Conference 2016
We would like to kindly invite you to save the date for the ECHIC Annual Conference for 2016: the conference will take place on April 21-22, hosted by the University of Macerata in Italy. Next year's conference topic will be "Humanities Now: Global Encounters", with a.o. panel on humanities and the creative industries and panel on humanities in China.
More information will follow in due time via newsletter and on the ECHIC website.
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'The Humanities in Europe Interview Series': invitation to join the new initiative
The Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in cooperation with ECHIC, proudly presents an initiative 'The Humanities in Europe Interview Series', and would like to invite members of ECHIC to contribute to building the cartography of the European landscape of the humanities.
The idea for the project originated during the ECHIC's Annual Conference in Oporto in 2014, and was further developed by Prof. Rosi Braidotti and the team of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. The core of the project is simple: by making a series of portraits of leading figures and promising scholars in the humanities in our part of the world and by asking them all the same set of questions, we pursue a double aim. Firstly, we provide sources of inspiration and role models for practitioners and students alike. Secondly, we aim to trace a genealogical portrait of where the humanities have been, where they are at today and where they could go, since each person we interviewed was asked to trace their own itinerary, past, present and future.
The preview of the series is now available online. The sample questions can be freely downloaded from ECHIC website. We hope that other scholars and institutes around the world will feel inspired and encouraged by this initiative and we invite them to help us build this cartography, by conducting their own interviews also outside Europe, following the same format and questions. Should you wish to undertake this initiative, please contact the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University (cfh@uu.nl).
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Share information about your projects with us!
Dear Members of ECHIC,
ECHIC was from the very beginning designed as a platform that, among other things, facilitates the connection between different humanities institutes and centres across Europe. To encourage that, we kindly invite you to send us information that could be interesting for other members. This could include, but is not limited to:
• Announcements of relevant projects;
• Calls for collaboration, participation, etc;
• Information about events related to the current situation in the field of humanities today.
Your input will be included in our newsletter, as well as posted on ECHIC website.
Should you wish to submit information that you would like to share, please send us a short (up to 200 words) summary and a link to where more information could be found. Please send the information to: info@echic.org.
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June 2015
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This Newsletter is published by the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres.
For more information please visit our website echic.org
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Contact ECHIC
Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht
Centre for the Humanities
Achter de Dom 20
3512 HJ Utrecht
The Netherlands
 info@echic.org
 +31(0)30 253 6137
www.uu.nl/cfh
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