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Introducing Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics
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The Simpson Center announces a four-year program forging new forms of scholarship and teaching beyond traditional academic circles, supported by a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Digital Humanities Programs Launch through Successful Challenge Grant
We’ve launched a suite of digital humanities programs, including summer fellowships and partnerships with regional colleges, after completing a $2.5 million challenge grant with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Explore.
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Troubling Translations: Scholars Take Diverse Tacks in a Sea of Questions
A year of events examining the theory and practice of translation begins with a talk October 26 by a scholar of Inuit literature. More.
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Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public Celebrates UW Historian
James Gregory’s drive to bring history beyond the academy—often exposing uncomfortable racial truths—garners this inaugural prize. Learn more.
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Socially Engaged Art in Japan (Conference)
Artists and scholars consider the surge in work crossing boundaries between art and social activism. Featuring keynotes by Fram Kitagawa November 12 and Sharon Daniel November 13. More.
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William “Bro” Adams on Humanities Past and Humanities Future
The Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities speaks December 4, joining our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the NEH. Details.
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Producing a Worthy Illness: Adventures in Crowdfunding (Conference)
Crowd-funding campaigns to pay for medical crises combine neoliberal notions of private welfare with the performance demands of social media. A groundbreaking working conference February 19 examines this rising trend.
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Full Events Calendar
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Postcolonial Animal Studies: Redefining What Lives Matter
Faculty researchers reconsider our relationships with non-human lives, following a conviction that violence toward any life is violence toward all, and the flourishing of any life supports the flourishing of all. Watch.
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Debating Palestine in the Public Sphere
Why is it so difficult to have civil public discussion about the Israel-Palestine conflict? A crossdisciplinary research cluster explores. |
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All Funded Projects for 2015-16
This year’s lineup includes studies of the SeaTac-Seattle minimum wage campaigns, feminism and classics, African media, and much more. See all.
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Thoughts? Questions? We’d love to hear from you:
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