Past Long-Term Projects

Since 1998, the Kahn Institute has launched dozens of innovative long- and short-term projects that have brought together a wide range of students and faculty members. If you have questions about past projects, please contact us at kahninstitute@smith.edu.

Year on Democracies

The Kahn Liberal Arts Institute is partnering with the Provost's Office for the next campus-wide the...

  • September 9, 2021

Fear

This yearlong Kahn project aims to address the power of fear—to destroy and subvert, but also to cre...

  • September 1, 2019

TranslationS

Translation at its best both bridges and recognizes difference. At a time of intensive globalization...

  • September 1, 2019

Food

In this Kahn project, we invite scholars of food from across the liberal arts curriculum (as well as...

  • September 1, 2018

Refugees

This Kahn project seeks to draw together faculty from a wide range of fields whose work intersects w...

  • February 1, 2018

War

This year-long Kahn project will bring together scholars from across the disciplines whose work touc...

  • September 1, 2017

Destroy then Restore

This year-long project explores the dynamic interaction between human societies and natural processe...

  • September 1, 2017

Shaping Perception

This year-long Kahn project will explore the concept of "perception" as an essential form of human e...

  • September 1, 2016

Modes and Models of Making

In this yearlong Kahn project we are interested in exploring how the idea of "making" infuses our se...

  • September 1, 2016

Play

This one-semester project aims to approach play from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in order...

  • February 1, 2016

Memory

This yearlong project aims to consider the great range of mechanisms, uses and representations of me...

  • September 1, 2015