ECHIC - European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres

The Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University is co-founder of the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres (ECHIC).

European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres, is a university-based initiative to organise European Research Institutes, Humanities Faculties and Centres for the Humanities.

The profile of the humanities in Europe today has become a contested space that is often the focus of polemical debates but seldom the object of rigorous scientific discussions. This consortium rests on the double assumption that effective international and intra-European networking in defence of the humanities, on the one hand, and interdisciplinary research across the field of the humanities, on the other, can play a significant role in shaping this debate about the humanities today and offer workable alternatives to the renewal of the field. The consortium pursues the highest international standards of excellence with a spirit of innovation and exploration of new research areas, but also with an acute sense of the social and political relevance of the humanities in Europe today.

The 2012 conference, entitled ‘Grand Challenges for the Humanities?’, will take place at the Centre for the Humanities (CfH) in Utrecht from the 28th of February to the 1st of March, 2012.

To view the programme, please click here.

The 2012 ECHIC conference is  financially supported by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)