Yale Institute of Sacred Music Announces International Fellowship

Martin D. Jean, director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, has announced the creation of the ISM Fellowships in Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, a program designed to create an international network of leaders working across national, cultural, disciplinary and religious boundaries.

Martin D. Jean, director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, has announced the creation of the ISM Fellowships in Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, a program designed to create an international network of leaders working across national, cultural, disciplinary and religious boundaries.

Founded at Yale in 1973, ISM is an interdisciplinary graduate center that studies, fosters, and explores engagement with the sacred through music, worship, and the arts in diverse religious traditions and in public life. It partners with the Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Music, as well as other academic and professional units at Yale, in training students for service in the academy, religious communities, and the public sector.

“It is our hope that this new initiative will be a meaningful way to extend the original vision of our founding donors to new constituencies at Yale and the world beyond,” said Jean. “Our founders were convinced of the importance of music and the arts in creating mutual understanding and respect between people. This has inspired us to move beyond our current boundaries to forge a diverse, worldwide network of scholars, practitioners, and artists whose work will be transformed in this vibrant, interdisciplinary community.”

The ISM Fellowships will bring together scholars, religious leaders, and artists from around the world to New Haven for one year to work and teach in their fields of sacred music, liturgical and ritual studies, or religion and the arts. The group may also include scholars in the humanities and social or natural sciences whose work is directly related to these areas. The Fellows will participate in a series of public lectures and presentations during the year. In addition to advancing knowledge and supporting work in the fields where arts and spirit meet; the program will encourage collaboration among academic institutions dedicated to understanding the sacred.

“The ISM Fellows will be an exciting venture that knits together faculty and students from around Yale, and directs the resources of the Institute into the global community,” said Barbara Shailor, Deputy Provost for the Arts at Yale, and an ardent supporter of the Institute.

Fellowship applications for the 2010-2011 academic year may be made until November 2, 2009.

For more information call 203-432-5180 or visit www.yale.edu/ism/fellows.

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