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The Simpson Center has been awarded a $625,000 Challenge Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support inventive forms of scholarship inspired by new and emerging digital technologies. With a successful 1:3 match, the Center with establish and endow a total of eight annual summer fellowships for faculty and graduate students to work in the new digital humanities.
This is a four-year campaign, with milestones to achieve each year. As of March 1, we still must raise $114,000 to make our 2009-10 goal of $525,000 by July 31 and, thereby, earn the $175,000 challenge match from the NEH.
Support the Center Now — Learn More about the NEH Grant
Information Sessions
Certificate in Public Scholarship
March 10 & April 7 - 4:00 PM Communications 206 RSVP Online
Come learn more about the graduate Certificate in Public Scholarship program, which will begin Fall 2010 and which is accepting applications through April 19, 2010. Bruce Burgett, Director, and Miriam Bartha, Associate Director, will describe the program and answer questions. Please RSVP online.
Conference
Beyond Borders: Alternative Voices and Histories of the Vietnamese Diaspora
March 4-7, 2010 UW Campus Details Abstracts [PDF]
This conference is based on the understanding that modern Vietnamese historiography has been unduly dominated by several particular and at times overlapping discourses reflective of the prevalent ideological presumptions of the 20th century, such as
- those that privilege the perspectives, interests, and actions of a central state or states;
- those that impose nationalist and traditionalist notions on Vietnamese history and culture;
- those that subsume Vietnamese revolutionary visions and movements solely under communist teleologies; and
- those that seek to enforce Cold War rhetorical postures by excluding, externalizing and de-legitimizing those that do not fit simplistic binaries.
Conference workshops will highlight academic work that complicates, challenges, and counters these paradigms, thereby enriching and expanding our understanding of the variety of modern Vietnamese historical actors, factors, and epistemologies, and suggesting the contours of alternative models.
Events include Opening Remarks by Christoph Giebel (International Studies & History) and Judith Henchy (UW Libraries), and a Keynote Presentation on “Dialogue on Diaspora” with Mariam Lam (Comparative Literature & Vietnamese, University of California, Riverside) and Jack Yeager (French Studies, Louisiana State University).
Spring 2010 Funding Round
Apply for Support
The Simpson Center for the Humanities seeks to support innovative crossdisciplinary research and to integrate that research with teaching at the graduate level and programs designed to engage larger publics. We sponsor a wide range of activities, including collaborative research groups, scholarly conferences and symposia, and a fellowship program for UW faculty and doctoral students. We also support public programs in the humanities, which we construe broadly to include projects and topics of humanistic interest in the social sciences, sciences, professions, and arts. The main purpose of our support is not to provide permanent funding for ongoing programs but, rather, to assist in the development of new ideas and projects.
Spring 2010 Deadline: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Proposals accepted starting March 19, 2010
A Blues/Pop Convergence! Listen, Experience!, Learn
Spring 2010 AMPS Events
The American Music Partnership of Seattle (AMPS) presents its Spring 2010 season of documentaries, concerts, and programs.
Humanities Curriculum
Certificate in Public Scholarship
The Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington announces a new graduate Certificate in Public Scholarship, designed to bring together cross-disciplinary cohorts of graduate students and faculty interested in public scholarship in the cultural disciplines and other fields that work with culture as a form of public practice. Upon admission, students become Simpson Center Public Scholarship Fellows, are assigned a portfolio advisor, and pursue a self-directed 15-credit course of study that includes a capstone project. Coursework begins autumn 2010. For more information on the Certificate in Public Scholarship, visit www.simpsoncenter.org/publicscholarship.
UW Grads Receive Future Leaders Award
Two University of Washington graduate students have received the 2010 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from American Association of Colleges & Universities. The award recognizes exemplary promise as a future leader of higher education; demonstrated commitments to developing academic and civic responsibility in self and others; and a strong work emphasis on teaching and learning. As Carol Geary Schneider, AAC&U’s president states, award recipients “represent the finest in the new generation of faculty who will teach and lead higher education in the next decades.” Shauna Carlisle (Social Work) addresses a wide range of issues related to public policy, demography and epidemiology of health, research methods, and inequality in her teaching. Her research focuses on health disparities among black Caribbean populations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. She has held a resaerch fellowship with the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and a teaching fellowship with the Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program at UW Bothell.
Jentery Sayers (English) teaches in the area of digital media and cultural histories of technology with an emphasis on project-based learning. With the support of a Society of Scholars research fellowship, he is currently completing a dissertation on the intermediation of sound reproduction technologies and modern Anglo-American literature. He is the first graduate student to serve on the board of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, Technology Advanced Collaboratory), a national consortium advancing interdisciplinary innovation and initiatives.
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Certificate in Public Scholarship Information Session
Wednesday, Mar. 10,4:00 PM
Communications 202
Open Satellite Allied Works Architecture: Brad Cloepfil
Wednesday, Mar. 10,7:00 PM
Kane 220
Film Screening Love for Share
Thursday, Mar. 11,7:00 PM
Kane 210
Anne McKnight Nakagami Kenji and Subculture
Friday, Mar. 12,3:30 PM
Balmer 202
KEXP Sound Documentaries Blues for Hard Times
Saturday, Mar. 13,4:00 PM
KEXP 90.3 FM and kexp.org on demand
Outside Opportunities: (See full list)
Calls for Applicants
Apply by Mar 15:
National Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop
Apply by Mar 24:
Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship
Apply by Apr 15:
Ethnic Studies
Conferences
Starts March 18:
Cultural Studies Association Seminars
Starts May 7:
Archive and Everyday Life
For Graduate Students
For Postdocs
For Faculty
Calls for Papers
Submit by Mar 31:
Dangerous Liaisons: Feminist Engagements with Race, Sexuality, Class, and Gender in Theatre and Media
Submit by Apr 2:
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Submit by Apr 15:
Shifting Paradigms: How Translation Transforms the Humanities
Submit by May 1:
Between Big Brother and the Digital Utopia: e-Governance in Post-Totalitarian Space
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