Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington

Opportunities for Graduate Students 2009-2010

Outside Opportunities:
The Simpson Center provides these outside listings as a service to UW students. Please note this list is not meant to be exhaustive, and that the information may be subject to change.

Calendric Public Rituals and the Articulation of Identities: Central Europe and the Balkans 1985 to the Present
Apply by Nov 7, 2009
The research group “Red-Letter Days in Transition” invites proposals for papers on topics relevant to the research project “Red-Letter Days in Transition. Calendric Public Rituals and the Articulation of Identities: Central Europe and the Balkans 1985 to the Present”.... Details

How to Do Things With Words and Other Materials
Apply by Nov 15, 2009
During her time at The Graduate Center, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick taught three incarnations of How to Do Things with Words and Other Materials— “an experimental seminar/studio workshop,” as she put it, “in which participants will think about and practice a... Details

Downward Spirals? Thinking about “Crisis” across the Disciplines
Apply by Nov 15, 2009
While the experience of uncertainty is common in the modern world, the first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed events that have contributed to a growing sense of crisis: 9/11 and the ensuing “global war on terror”; the Indian... Details

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Grad Student Colloquium
Apply by Nov 27, 2009
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute... Details

Mellon Fellow - Rice Humanities Research Center
Apply by Nov 30, 2009
The Humanities Research Center at Rice University will award up to three Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships for two-year appointments beginning July 1, 2010. The second year’s appointment is contingent on successful review of first year’s performance. Fellows will receive... Details

Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies
Apply by Nov 30, 2009
The Department of English at the University of Victoria invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in the area of Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies (mailing deadline: 30 November 2009). The appointment will be effective 1 July 2010. The successful... Details

Digital Art and Culture
Apply by Dec 12, 2009
A Space-Time of Ubiquity and Embeddedness (Theme leaders Ulrik Ekman and Mark Hansen) Details.... Details

American Indians Today
Apply by Dec 15, 2009
The American Indians Today Area is seeking papers, presentations and panels on topics related to American Indians Today that examine the influence that American pop culture has on aspects of contemporary American Indian life ways and vice versa. American Indian... Details

Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity
Apply by Dec 15, 2009
Call for Papers from an Area of the Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association National Conference: Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity is concerned with all areas of clothing, apparel and fashion that include: historical methods, design, manufacturing, aesthetics, marketing,... Details

EMP Pop Conference: The Pop Machine: Music and Technology
Apply by Dec 15, 2009
Popular music might be narrated as a story of sounds and the machines that make them. From the talking drum and parlor room piano to the Gibson Les Paul, from the Edison phonograph to Roland 808 beatbox and Antares Autotune... Details

Georgetown Center for International & Regional Studies - Qatar
Apply by Jan 4, 2010
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar’s Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) is pleased to announce an opening for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The fellowship will support a recent PhD recipient in any discipline working on the area... Details

Mellon Fellow - Medieval Studies
Apply by Jan 15, 2010
The Medieval Institute offers a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for a junior scholar in Medieval Studies, made possible through the generous response of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to a challenge grant awarded to Notre Dame by the National Endowment for... Details

Women and Humanities
Apply by Jan 25, 2010
The Virginia Humanities Conference invites proposals for individual papers or complete panel sessions, electronic/multimedia presentations or performances related to humanities disciplines that address the theme “Women and Humanities”. (Humanities disciplines include, but are not limited to: art, art history, cultural... Details

UW Doctoral Student Fellowships
Apply by Jan 27, 2010
The Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation (GSFEI) and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS) at the University of Washington Bothell are collaborating to offer a teaching fellowship for 4-6 doctoral students who have been advanced to candidacy and are... Details

Cultural Studies Association Seminars
Apply by Mar 18, 2010
The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Eighth Annual Meeting seminars. Those interested in participating in a seminar should consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them.... Details

Archive and Everyday Life
Apply by May 7, 2010
This conference will bring together academics, advocates, artists, and other cultural workers to examine the intersecting fields of archive and everyday life theory. From Simmel through Mass Observation to contemporary Cultural Studies theorists, the objective of everyday life theory has... Details

Diversity Conference, Queen's University Belfast
Apply by Jul 19, 2010
The Diversity Conference has a history of bringing together scholarly, government and practice-based participants with an interest in the issues of diversity and community. The Conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and... Details

Opportunities for Graduate Students 2009-2010 (pdf)

The Simpson Center for the Humanities, one of the pre-eminent humanities centers in the country, recognizes that today’s graduate students are tomorrow’s intellectual, professional, and civic leaders. Graduate students are vital to our thriving, interdisciplinary atmosphere. With opportunities for both intellectual and financial support, we invite you to participate in an intellectual community that includes University of Washington faculty, faculty and leaders from other institutions, graduate students from a range of disciplines, undergraduates, and the public.

We involve graduate students in every element of our four-fold mission: encouraging crossdisciplinary research and inquiry, pioneering innovative, crossdisciplinary courses, promoting public scholarship and university-community engagement, and developing humanistic initiatives at the leading edge of change.

We balance diverse, structured activities–lectures, conferences, workshops, and seminars—with informal opportunities for the lively discussions and exchanges that advance crossdisciplinary understanding, collaboration, and research. Our comprehensive suite of innovative, integrative opportunities for graduate students at every stage of their careers has earned us national recognition and grant-making support from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Digital Humanities

The Simpson Center has steadily and increasingly promoted faculty and graduate student projects in the digital humanities. Web-based projects have experimented with new ways of doing and sharing scholarship, while lecture series and conferences have reflected on the forms and effects of our emerging digital culture.

The Simpson Center is a leading member of the national Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) and will host the 2010 HASTAC conference. In the 2008-09 academic year, six UW graduate students represent us in the new HASTAC Scholars Program as leaders and innovators in participatory learning and digital research.

This year the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Simpson Center a major challenge grant which, successfully matched, will create a $2.5 million endowment for a Digital Humanities Commons. The centerpiece of the Digital Humanities Commons is an annual summer program of fellowships for faculty and dissertators, emphasizing collaborative projects with digital dimensions.

Funding for Crossdisciplinary Research Clusters

Research clusters provide graduate students with opportunities to develop individual and collaborative projects in dialogue with students, faculty, and visiting scholars. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals to support crossdisciplinary conferences, colloquia, and collaborative research projects. In 2008-2009 four interdisciplinary clusters were supported by the Simpson Center—(dis)Orienting Asian American Studies, Queer Worlds, the Race / Knowledge Project, and the Visual Praxis Collective.

Microseminars & Courses

Crossdisciplinary graduate courses ranging from one to five credits engage students from across departments on a variety of topics related to Simpson Center initiatives.

with Katz Distinguished Lecturers
The Simpson Center administers the Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturers in the Humanities series, which brings to campus some of the most renowned names in scholarship. While in residence, Katz Lecturers teach graduate microseminars related to their research. Recent visitors and topics include Wendy Brown (on Marx, critique, and religion), Mike Davis (on global food systems and crises), and Derek Gregory (on imaginative geographies).

in the Digital Humanities
The Digital Humanities Commons supports three microseminars that engage topics and methods in digital research, innovation, and scholarship each year. Some are designed to introduce the work of the annual Digital Humanities Commons Visiting Scholar. In May 2009, Alan Liu, creator of the Voice of the Shuttle website for humanities research and author of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (2004), inaugurates this program.

in Public Culture / Engaged Scholarship (HUM 595)
These courses explore relations among cultural research, public practice, and diverse forms of community engagement. Many are crosslisted with Masters of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) courses in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS) at UW Bothell. For more information, visit www.uwb.edu/IAS/macs.

Public Culture / Engaged Scholarship (HUM 595)

These courses explore relations among cultural research, public practice, and diverse forms of community engagement. They are also crosslisted with Masters of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) courses in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS) at UW Bothell.

Society of Scholars Research Fellowships

The Society of Scholars is an intellectual community in which UW faculty and dissertators across generations, ranks, and departments contribute to and learn from one another’s work. Scholars meet over the course of an academic year. Graduate dissertation fellows are selected through a competitive process and released from teaching responsibilities for two quarters to focus on their research.

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