Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington

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

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Spring 2010 AMPS Events

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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.