BROOKINGS – The South Dakota Humanities Council board of directors has awarded $36,000 to various organizations for 2019 humanities programs and events, and nearly $7,000 is going to events in Brookings.
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BROOKINGS – The South Dakota Humanities Council board of directors has awarded $36,000 to various organizations for 2019 humanities programs and events, and nearly $7,000 is going to events in Brookings.
The South Dakota Humanities Council is a statewide non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to provide humanities programming for South Dakotans. The organization’s board of directors approves requests for grants, which must involve humanities professionals and include the humanities as a central focus. The board approved eight projects at its most recent meeting, which took place this spring.
With the spring grant cycle completed, SDHC is now accepting applications for programs after Dec. 1. Board members will convene this fall to consider major grant (more than $1,000) applications that are due Oct. 15. Applications for grants under $1,000 are accepted on a rolling basis.
The following Brookings-based organizations received awards at the most recent SDHC board meeting:
• South Dakota State University English Department in Brookings was awarded $6,986 to fund humanities scholar appearances and operating expenses for “Staging the Space Between, 1914-1945,” the 21st annual conference of The Society of the Space Between, which was held May 30-June 1 at SDSU. The conference promotes the state of South Dakota as a thriving community of readers and writers and provides faculty, students, and members of the public the opportunity to interact with each other, exchange ideas and develop a shared intellectual community.
• The Ethics Lab at SDSU in Brookings was granted $7,000 for “Populism and the Recovery of Intellectual Virtues Project,” a two-day workshop in Brookings Sept. 26-27 featuring SDSU faculty, two recognized scholars, and six other participating scholars. In addition, the project will support public programming with panels and plenary speakers, student engagement, and a series of podcasts. The goal of the project, per SDSU, is to “explore and understand the opposition between some forms of populism and ‘elite knowledge,’ including scientific knowledge, and the role that cultivation of intellectual virtues may play in sustaining democracy’s wisdom of the crowd.”
