Fall 2009 Application Deadlines

Deadlines for funding applications will be as follows. Contact Peter Logan for consultation about shaping group funding proposals.

Sept 21		Interdisciplinary Research Groups
Sept 21		Study Groups
Oct 5		Dissertation Fellowship
Nov 2		Faculty Fellowship
Nov 16		Rotberg Undergraduate Research Award

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Exhibits

Islam in Africa: A Pilgrimage to Touba, Senegal

Photographer David Katzenstein has twice made the Sufi pilgrimage to the mosque city of Touba, recording the events in a series of photographs intended to raise awareness of Senegal as a successful Muslim democracy. (more ...)

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Glorious Commerce: Exhibitionary Strategies of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1893-1926

In 1893 University of Pennsylvania professor William Wilson founded the Philadelphia Commercial Museum and built a collection including most of the objects from the World’s Fairs’ displays. The Museum had two goals: to help American businesses prevail in foreign markets; and to impress upon the general public that commercial expansion was a lucrative alternative to military imperialism. (more ...)

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Ben Wilson, American Painter

In 2008, CHAT aquired six large oil paintings by American painter Ben Wilson thanks to the generosity of the Ben and Evelyn Wilson Foundation. These works are on permanent display in the CHAT lounge and conference room. (Image: a detail from “The Thresher,” c. 1975)