Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington

Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities

Between Globalization and Global Warming:
The Long and the Short of Human History

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 7:00 PM Kane 220 Details

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Laurence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor
History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago

Dipesh Chakrabarty is Laurence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he is also a Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. His scholarship has been central to postcolonial history and historiography, from his early work with the Subaltern Studies collective and the publication of Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal, 1890-1940 (1989) to Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000; new edition 2007) and Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002). His Katz lecture on the science of climate change and its impact on historical thinking draws on a new book project in-process.

Platforms for Public Scholarship

Conceiving Practice, Organizing Policy

Friday, November 13, 2009 - 3:30 PM Communications 226 Details

Platforms for Public Scholarship will hold a public event with Jan Cohen-Cruz (University Professor, Syracuse University and Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life) and Kevin Bott (Director, Publicly Active Graduate Education). The purpose of the public forum is to enlarge discussions already underway among the 2009-10 Platforms fellows and engage other stakeholders in public scholarship and graduate education. More information about Platforms for Public Scholarship.

American Music Partnership of Seattle

AMPS at the Simpson Center

The American Music Partnership of Seattle (AMPS) has come to live at the Simpson Center for the Humanities!

This Paul G. Allen Family Foundation-funded grant supports collaboration among Experience Music Project, KEXP Radio, and the University of Washington, leveraging the unique assets of each institution.

AMPS emphasizes and promotes the role of music in local communities and lives, stretches the capacity of all three participating organizations, and provides each organization with a reliable network for music resources. It creates an institutional link between different modes of music education—radio programming, exhibitions, scholarship, and performance—that facilitates their integration and enhances their impact.

Learn more about AMPS projects and initiatives, including Sound Documentaries (on KEXP), the Pop Conference (at EMP), and the Seattle Fandango Project.

Hypatia’s 25th Anniversary Conference

Feminist Legacies / Feminist Futures

Participants in the panel with local feminist scholars on Friday, October 23 included Alison Wylie (Philosophy and Anthropology), Eva Cherniavsky (English), Janelle Taylor (Anthropology), Barbara Reskin (Sociology), Carolyn Allen (English), and Judy Howard (Divisional Dean of Social Sciences and Professor, Sociology)

More than 150 participants from around the country participated in Hypatia’s 25th Anniversary Conference on October 22-24. The Hypatia editors, the local editorial advisors, and the Simpson Center hosted the conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal of feminist philosophy and to explore the future as it has taken shape across a range of disciplines. Volume 25 will be published in 2010.

Science Studies Network Colloquium

Helen Longino Discusses Her Current Work

As part of her presence on campus as the Fall 2009 Walker Ames Scholar, Helen Longino (Philosophy, Stanford) presented a lecture as part of Representations, the 2009-10 Science Studies Network lecture series, and held a colloquium with faculty and graduate students. Longino discussed chapters from a forthcoming monograph in which she analyzes the evidential structures and frameworks of inquiry that inform the contemporary sciences of human behavior. Well-known for her contributions to social epistemology and feminist philosophy of science, especially her arguments for the relevance of social values to the justification of scientific knowledge as objective, Longino is a contributing co-editor of Scientific Pluralism (2006).