Simpson Center Programs

Programs fulfill central Center missions promoting innovative, crossdisciplinary research, curriculum development, and public engagement.

HASTAC Scholars Initiative
HASTAC Scholars The Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, or HASTAC is a network of individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer for... Read more
Initiatives stand “at the leading edge of change” by promoting collaborative, crossdisciplinary research and transformational scholarship. Fellowships are supported through faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate research fellowships on both internal and external grants.  
Lecture Series Lecture series include the tri-annual Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities, the Joff Hanuaer Lectures in Western Civilization, and New Books in Print, highlighting UW faculty publications. Curriculum at the Simpson Center offers innovative, interdisciplinary graduate courses, as well as the project- and portfolio-based Certificate in Public Scholarship.
Co-Sponsored Events are supported by small discretionary grants that facilitate opportunities for interdepartmental lectures, colloquia, and conferences at UW.

2011/2012 Programs

New Books in Print

Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities

  • Taking to the Streets: Arts and Activism in the Americas
  • Ripple Effects: The Work of Art in the World
  • Second Hand: A Poet’s Journey Toward Science

Joff Hanauer Lectures in Western Civilization

  • The Beneficiary: Cosmopolitanism and Inequality
  • For History and Against Grand Narratives: From W. H. Auden’s Reflections on Freud to His “Homage to Clio”