The AI and Poetry Research project currently led by Morten Christiansen and Laurent Dubreuil is funded by a New Frontiers grant from the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University (2021-24).

The project on the Semantic Mapping of Indigeneity currently led by Imane Terhmina and Laurent Dubreuil is funded by the French Embassy in the United States, the Cornell French Studies Program and the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (2023-25).

The Humanities and AI working group at Cornell, currently led by Laurent Dubreuil and Paul Fleming, is made possible by the Society for the Humanities, the French Studies Program and the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts and Sciences (2023-24).

The Visual Art and Bonobo pilot experiment, led by Laurent Dubreuil and Jared Taglialatela, with Cathy Caruth, is a collaboration between the Ape Initiative in Des Moines and researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell (2023-26).

The “Mission O,”  a collaborative project offering a nomadic reflection on the vegetal world in Homer’s Odyssey, was developed by Laurent Derobert and Laurent Dubreuil. This artistic and scientific endeavor was supported by the Art gallery Hus in Montmartre and by the Mondes nouveaux fund overseen by the French Ministry of Culture (2020-23). The associated art project “Odyssea—An American Germination,” led by Dubreuil and Derobert, is made possible by a grant of the Mellon Foundation through the Rural Humanities Initiative at Cornell, with the additional support of the French Studies Program (2024-25).

Laurent Dubreuil is personally acknowledging the major financial support from the Mellon Foundation (2009-15), the Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (2018-19), and the New Frontiers Program in the Cornell College of Arts & Sciences (2023).

Current and past sponsors for specific events at Cornell University include the Department of Romance Studies (Berkowitz fund), the French Studies Program, the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the Society for the Humanities, the Cognitive Science Program, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Psychology, the Messenger Lectures, the Dean’s Office of the College of of Arts and Sciences, the Rhodes Chair of Humane Letters.

Additional funding for co-sponsored activities came from the French Embassy in the United States, and the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures at Tsinghua University.