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From 2003 to 2008, this annual Simpson Center fellowship program provided doctoral students with an intensive introduction to the practice of engaged cultural research and teaching.
Among the program’s many outcomes are two new initatives: Platforms for Publish Scholarship (2009-10) and the Certificate in Public Scholarship, scheduled to launch Fall 2010, pending final approval.
Archive:
2008 Fellow Bios
2008 Learning Objectives
2008 Program
2008 Readings
Discussion Board
2008 Outcomes
2007 Fellow Bios
2007 Program
2007 Readings
2006 Fellow Bios
2006 Program
2006 Readings
2006 Graduate Students' Recommendations
Flyers: 2006, 2005, 2004
Publications:
Kathleen Woodward, “The Future of the Humanities—in the Present and in Public” Daedalus Vol. 138 Winter 2009: 110-123.
Bruce Burgett, “Mixed Genealogies: Between American Studies and Cultural Studies,” Reconfigurations of American Studies, eds. Don Pease and Elizabeth Dillon, Durham: Duke University Press (forthcoming).
Miriam Bartha, “Cultural Studies and … Public Humanities”
IA Newsletter 2007, p 10
IA Newsletter 2006, p 8
Arts & Sciences Perspectives
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2008 Overview
As an annual program of the Simpson Center from 2003 to 2008, the Institute on the Public Humanities offered an interdisciplinary cohort of approximately 20 graduate students an intensive week-long exploration of diverse practices of community-based cultural research, teaching, and engagement. The Institute sought to hone students’ capacity to imagine and enact collaborative culture work across multiple sites inside and outside the university, and to represent their own aspirations and abilities as publicly-engaged scholars. It was designed as an intensive, participatory experience reconsidering, re-contextualizing, and reorienting current forms of institutional practice.
Addressed to students pursuing careers within and outside higher education, the Institute cultivated skills and knowledge that enable effective and generative culture work across academic and non-academic communities and institutions. Site- and project-based workshops engaged directly, concretely, and formatively with different modes of university-community collaboration in a variety of local contexts. Readings and discussions offered critical perspective on the structural challenges and possibilities attending community-based research, teaching, and engagement, as well as new maps and new language for navigating professional and institutional development in this field.
 More Details on the Institute (pdf)
Mailing List
Workshops on topics such as Community-Based Course Design, Interdisciplinary Project Design, and Activism through Arts Practice are periodically publicized through the Public Humanities listserv, which contines to be active.
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Related Course Opportunities
Courses in Public Culture/Engaged Scholarship (HUM 595) explore relations among cultural research, public practice, and diverse forms of community engagement. Crosslisted with Masters of Arts in Cultural Studies courses in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell as well as others available through UW Seattle departments.
More Details on Course Opportunities (pdf)
Lectures and Public Forums
Discussion Forum: Collaborative Research and Praxis
Richa Nigar (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota)
Amanda Lock Swarr (Women Studies, University of Washington)
October 23, 2008, 3:30-5:00 pm, Communications 206
DETAILS: TK
Green Cultural Citizenship: A Future for Cultural Studies
Toby Miller (Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 6:00-8:00 pm
North Creek Events Center, UW Bothell
Institute Co-Directors
Miriam Bartha
Assistant Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW Seattle
Bruce Burgett
Professor and Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell
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