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The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities promotes innovative crossdisciplinary research and teaching in the humanities and fosters exchange and debate on cultural and intellectual issues among University of Washington scholars and the Seattle community. The role of the Simpson Center is to support initiatives in the humanities at the leading edge of change, to encourage interdisciplinary research and learning among UW faculty and students, to establish programs in the humanities that engage the public, and to support inventive crossdisciplinary courses for undergraduates and graduates.
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November 2009
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...
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November 2009
Abjection and Violence in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 - 1:30 PM Savery 138 Details eFlyer Sergio de la Mora (Chicana & Chicano Studies, University of California, Davis) examines how the canonical Mexican directors Arturo Ripstein and Alejandro González Iñárritu, working at the cutting edge of the Mexican...
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October 2009
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...
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October 2009
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,...
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October 2009
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...
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October 2009
The Cadaver, The Comatose, & The Chimera: Avatars Have No Organs
Thursday, Oct 8, 2009 - 7:00 PM Henry Auditorium DetailsFree to Henry Members, 911 Members, and UW Students, Staff, & Faculty. General Admission $5. Cadavers can be preserved forever with plastination. Comatose bodies can be sustained indefinitely on life-support systems. Cryogenically suspended...
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September 2009
2009-10 Funded Projects Announced
The Simpson Center’s Executive Board has awarded funding to the following projects for 2009-10: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR INITIATIVE Andrea Woody (Associate Professor, Philosophy)Connecting to the Audience: Representation and Embodiment in Contemporary Artistic Performance Woody’s project investigates how best to conceptualize...
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September 2009
2009-10 Society of Scholars
Kiko Benitez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature) Filipino Literary Selfhoods Benitez examines the ways Filipino novelists struggled against the pressures of changing imperial conditions as the Philippines moved from Spanish to U.S. rule. Focusing primarily on literary subjectivity, he looks at...
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September 2009
Fredric Danz, 1918-2009
The Simpson Center mourns the loss of Fredric Danz, whose dedication to higher education and the humanities has enriched thousands of students at the University of Washington. From 2002 to 2009, the generous gifts of Fredric Danz supported what became...
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May 2009
Metropolis and Micropolitics: South Asia’s Sutured Cities
Participants in the recent conference Metropolis and Micropolitics asked what the micro-political processes are that attempt to mediate, navigate, and/or challenge contradictions in contemporary South Asian cities. Contemporary South Asian cities are rife with contradictions. Slums and skyscrapers, nativist and...
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December 2008
Simpson Center Receives Major NEH Grant
The Simpson Center for the Humanities has been awarded a $625,000 Challenge Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support inventive forms of scholarship inspired by new and emerging digital technologies. The largest NEH Challenge Grant ever...
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October 2008
Scholarly Communication and Cyberinfrastructure
“We are in a transformative moment of the co-evolution of scholarship in the humanities and cyberinfrastructure. Centers, which have long provided a space for innovation in the humanities, are playing a crucial role in the profound and accelerating change in...
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October 2008
Texts and Teachers
Next spring, the undergraduate students of Gary Handwerk (English and Comparative Literature) will read Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, and Wild Seed by Octavia Butler. Across town, students and teachers at Eastlake, Lake Washington,...
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October 2008
2008-2009 HASTAC Scholars
Six outstanding UW graduate students are representing the Simpson Center in the newly-created HASTAC Scholars Program. Among HASTAC’s multiple missions is the development of digital tools and projects for teaching, archiving, and social interaction. As students and teachers leading the...
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Undergraduate Courses