WHO
WE ARE
The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme has cultivated pluralistic progress by advancing collaboration across the humanities and social sciences
OUR MISSION
The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH)
is dedicated to collaboration across the humanities and social sciences – forging new cooperation and understanding across boundaries.
We achieve our mission by:
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Promoting evidence-based dialogue across disciplinary, cultural and national boundaries.
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Developing scientific research and implementing strategies
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Valorizing inherent human rights and imperatives of social justice including open, rational and critical thinking.
Our history enables us to maximize these aims - establishing us as a leader to convene established and emerging intellectuals who will help chart future directions in humanities and social science research.
OUR HISTORY
From the very start, the FMSH has been a transatlantic project supported by transformative American philanthropies.
Today we build upon on the legacy that our founder, Fernand Braudel, and other outstanding leaders of the humanities and social sciences, set in 1963. We:
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Promote cross-cultural knowledge creation.
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Improve dialogue across a diverse, inclusive and global community of scholars.
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Enhance cooperation with researchers from countries with weak or broken links to others.
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Develop innovative, interdisciplinary research in the humanities, social sciences and other disciplines.
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Facilitate knowledge sharing within and outside of academic communities.
OUR IMPACT
In recent years, the FMSH has significantly impacted academia and international collaboration across multiple major projects. This includes a partnership with Columbia University to host hundreds of researchers in France; educational exchanges for thousands of students from Latin America and the Caribbean; fostering collaboration in the digital humanities with the Mellon Foundation; and convening international scholarly panels to address social progress and violence. Our achievements include:
1,500+
Foreign scholars welcomed to the FMSH through the Associate Research Directors program since the 1970s.
7,000+
Researchers welcomed to Maison Suger since our doors opened in 1990.
1,200+
Editions of our scholarly journal and 30 books published per year, more than half of which are born form international collaboration.
400+
Researchers received post-doctoral mobility support through our ATLAS program since 2014.
100+
International conferences and convenings hosted in locations like Paris, Beirut, New York and Washington, DC, as well as virtually.
10,000+
Scholarly works have their roots at the FMSH.
GROUNDBREAKING CONVENINGS
We are particularly proud of our role in gathering leading minds to examine topics of global importance. A selection of our recent events include:
International Panel on Exiting Violence
In partnership with the Carnegie Corporation, featuring 250+ international scholars between 2016 and 2021.
International Panel
for Social Progress
Featuring 350+
international scholars between 2014 and 2017.
France - Latin America -Caribbean Regional Program
Involving 7,000+ students from Latin America and the Caribbean since the early 2000's.
International Program
for Advanced Study
With Columbia University, hosting 350+ researchers between 2001 and 2009.
Transatlantic Program for Collaborative Work
in the Field of Digital Humanities
In partnership with Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, hosting 8 French-American research groups between 2013 and 2018.
Humanities and social sciences have a home.
Successful collaboration is fundamental to meaningful, impactful humanities and social sciences research. This spirit animates the Maison Suger - established by the FMSH as a researcher residence and hub of international cooperation.
