The Architecture of Knowledge:
How Research Programs and New Courses are Built
CLIR 2007 Sponsors’ Symposium
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Cosmos Club
2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
8:45-9:30 Check-in and continental breakfast
9:30-9:40 Welcoming remarks, Charles Henry
9:40-10:30 Notes from the Field: The Challenges of Conducting
Research in Museums and Libraries in the Islamic World, Christiane Gruber, Indiana University
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:35 How a 13th Century Romance Changed 21st Century Scholarship,
Stephen Nichols, Johns Hopkins University
11:35-12:15 Questions and discussion
12:15-1:30 Lunch
Followed by informal presentation by Donald Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, on the foundation’s funding patterns over the past decade
1:30-2:20 Understanding the Behaviors of Researchers and Students:
An Anthropologist’s Approach, Nancy Foster, University of Rochester
2:20-2:45 Questions and discussion
2:45-3:00 Concluding remarks, Charles Henry
