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Exploring Global Health ‘Partnerships’
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A uniquely collaborative research team unpacks a widely used but rarely scrutinized term in global health, featuring a keynote by Nigerian microbiologist Iruka Okeke. The project puts humanists in conversation with the UW’s Population Health Initiative and Seattle’s burgeoning global health sector.
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Race and Capitalism Receive Year-Long Investigation through Sawyer Seminar
An interdisciplinary group examines the tangle of capitalism and race, around the world and across centuries, supported by a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Inside Higher Ed Features Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics
New partnerships between research universities and two-year colleges draw attention to broad career options for doctoral students.
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Lobbying for the Humanities in Washington, DC
Simpson Center staff and board members meet with Washington state’s Congressional offices about the life-changing power of humanities and language funding.
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The Moral Failure of Crowdfunding for Health Care
The rise of crowdfunding on sites like GoFundMe reflects—and potentially worsens—inequities already at play in US health care, according to new research.
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Lorraine Daston on Algorithms Before Computers
The celebrated historian of science delivers a Katz Distinguished in the Humanities. April 19. |
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Global Indigeneities Summer Institute
Graduate students and faculty from across universities gather to focus on the intellectual and institutional challenges of articulating Indigenous studies. June 2017. |
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Urban Environmental Humanities NEH Summer Institute
City/Nature, an NEH-funded summer institute, offers college and university faculty a deeper understanding of the urban environment, using Seattle as a window into an urbanizing world. June-July 2017.
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Full Events Calendar
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David Shields: The Novel Is Dead; Long Live the Anti-Novel
The bestselling author and University of Washington professor of English delivered a provocative argument for "evolution beyond narrative” in a recent Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities.
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A Story of Liberation Preserved in LGBTQ History Project
A new website chronicles activists who made Seattle a national pioneer for gay rights, building on the influential Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects. |
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From Chicana Punk Rock, Habell-Pallán Forges a Vision for Public Scholarship
The new director of the Certificate in Public Scholarship draws on the cultural ferment among musicians, scholars, and communities.
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