The Interseminars intiative provides funding and administrative infrastructure for collaborative teaching, sustained interdisciplinary inquiry, and public-and-community facing research in the humanities and arts. It encourages projects that center students from populations historically underrepresented in graduate education and that advance diverse ideas, perspectives, and experiences.

Each year from 2022–2025, Interseminars will fund an 18-month interdisciplinary project that will provide course releases and summer funding for 2–3 faculty coordinators, up to eight graduate fellowships, and programming funds for a public- and/or community-facing culminating event (such as a conference, exhibit, or performance).

Eligibility:

Proposals must include a minimum of two (and up to three) tenure-stream faculty from the Urbana-Champaign campus representing at least two different disciplines or interdisciplines in the arts and humanities. Faculty members may participate in only one proposal each. Preference will be given to projects that include faculty conveners from at least two different academic units.