Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support improving access to music collections at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge

Enhancing Access to Music Collections 

to support a study of portraiture as historical evidence and to extend the research links between the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University, and the National Portrait Gallery

Portraiture Study

to support the Oxford Humanities Center (TORCH)

Humanities Centers - TORCH

to support an interdisciplinary research initiative at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities focused on diversity and difference in the academy

TORCH

to support the transition of core funding for the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman drama from independent to university sources

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

toward costs of a study of digitization projects in Oxford’s research library collections

Research Library Digitization Project

to increase the level of private sector support for the University

Fundraising

to support the negotiation and finalization of agreements between the University and publishers participating in the Electronic Enlightenment project

Electronic Enlightenment Publishing Agreements 

to support the further development of scholarly resources and tools for the study of correspondence networks in the early modern period

Cultures of Knowledge: Networking the Republic of Letters

to support the further development of a software platform containing records of people, places, dates, and correspondence of the early modern period

Cultures of Knowledge IV

to support collaborative programs of research and publication on the intellectual history of 17th-century Europe, and the collection of related scholarly resources

Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the 17th Century Republic of Letters

matching grant to establish an endowed University Lectureship in Forced Migration

Refugee Studies Centre - Faculty Endowment

to support the development of specialist catalogs of primary source materials from the medieval and early modern periods

Cultures of Knowledge - Phase III

to support the prototyping of a digital platform for scholarly editions of primary sources that document the European Enlightenment

Digital Editions of the Enlightenment

to support increased access to materials of interest in the Bodleian Library to Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities

Collections for Communities of Color

to support the development of a prototype of an online edition of Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

Digitized Medieval Libraries of Great Britain 

to support the continued development of digital tools and resources for the distribution and study of medieval music transcripts

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music 

to support conversion to electronic format of cataloging records for collections of printed music and maps at the Bodleian Library

Conversion of Music and Map Catalogues

to support the creation of a landmark scholarly initiative that documents the lexicon of African American English in a dictionary based on historical principles

Historical Dictionary of African American English

to support further development of a prototype of an online edition of Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

Digitized Medieval Libraries of Great Britain II

to support enhanced access to source texts of classical antiquity and related scholarly materials

Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents 

to support professional associations in the fields of population and forced migration

International Association for the Study of Forced Migration 

to support seminars that examine the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Theory and Politics of Civil Society

to support a Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Understanding Human Creativity:  Ecologies and Practices of Invention"

Sawyer Seminars - Understanding Human Creativity: Ecologies and Practices of Invention

to support initiatives that would facilitate the use and interoperability of digitized collections

Needs Assessment and Implementation of Shared Canvas and IIIF Protocols

to support the establishment of a Digital Library Resource Development Fund to encourage scholarly research that employs digitized special collections at the University’s libraries

Digital Library Resource Development Fund

to support the integration of the Refugee Studies Centre’s documentation center into the university’s main library system

Refugee Library Project - Library Integration Project

to support the development of an online database of the correspondence of 18th-century intellectuals

Electronic Enlightenment [Voltaire]

to support the transfer to the Bodleian Library of an irreplaceable collection of historical aerial photographs of Africa and other areas in the developing world, and the development of a pilot Web site that would offer access to these materials

Aerial Photographic Collection 

to establish the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship of American Government

Mellon Professorship

to support the further development of an online database of correspondence that formed the basis of 18th-century philosophical, political, economic, and scientific debates

Electronic Enlightenment [Voltaire Foundation]

to support the strengthening of research and instruction in American history

American History

to support the development of an electronic portal in the field of forced migration

Portal - Refugee Studies Centre

for a program of preservation microfilming in conjunction with other research libraries in Great Britain

Preservation Microfilming

to facilitate publication by the Clarendon Press of the proposed complete edition of the works of John Locke

Clarendon Press - John Locke Works

to support development of an online Egyptological bibliography

Online Egyptological Bibliography

to support the digitization of medieval music manuscripts

Medieval Music Manuscripts

to support the further development of an online database of correspondence in which 18th-century philosophical, political, economic, and scientific debates occurred

Electronic Enlightenment Phase IV  

to support research and training programs in the field of forced migration

Forced Migration Center

to support the digitization of Voltaire’s correspondence

Voltaire Correspondence [Electronic Enlightenment]

to support scholarly activities in conjunction with the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship of American Government

Mellon Chair - Supplement

to strengthen student and faculty engagement with the collections of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Art Museums and the Curriculum

to support continued development of the Electronic Enlightenment project

Electronic Enlightenment Part V

to support further development of the Electronic Enlightenment database

to support the strengthening of student and faculty engagement with the collections at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

to support the purchase of equipment for a conservation laboratory

Strengthening Library Preservation Services

to support the final developmental phase of the Electronic Enlightenment project

Electronic Enlightenment Phase VI

in support of training programs to address mental health problems in displaced populations

Refugee Studies - Mental Health

for use by its Refugee Studies Programme toward costs of digitization of its library collection

Refugee Studies Centre - Library Digitization Project

for use by its Refugee Studies Programme in support of research on refugee children and adolescents

Refugee Childrens Research Program

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 