On Toxicity and Nuclear Cleanup

Read the interview with Shannon Cram, author of Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility (2023), on nuclear remediation.

Community Connections

In recognition of the mutual benefits gained by exchange across university and community spaces, the Simpson Center is piloting a new form of support for community connections during the 2024-2025 academic year. Learn more here.

Katz Distinguished Lecture: Edward Slingerland, February 11, 2024

On February 11, Edward Slingerland (Philosophy, University of British Columbia) will give a Katz Distinguished Lecture on early Confucian virtue ethics. He will argue that early Confucians anticipated modern virtue ethical theorists in putting learning to see as itself the most fundamental of moral problems, a position that is supported by contemporary work on cognition and perception.

The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities

fosters intellectual discovery across boundaries, supporting crossdisciplinary exchange among scholars at the University of Washington and beyond.

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Global Sport Lab: What Worlds Does Soccer Imagine?

Jan 9, 2025

4:00pm

Kane Hall (KNE)

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Research Funding Info Session: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Jan 16, 2025

12:00pm

Thomson Hall (THO)

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Stice Feminist Lecture of Social Justice: "Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition," presented by Silky Shah

Jan 16, 2025

4:00pm

Communications Building (CMU)

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Tateuchi East Asia Library Digital Scholarship Series

Jan 22, 2025

3:30pm

Gowen Hall (GWN)

On Toxicity and Nuclear Cleanup

Shannon Cram is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. She was the recipient of the Simpson Center’s First Books Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2021...

Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Inside the reading room of Suzzallo Library

Encountering Literature through Translation

Since its founding in 2019, the Translation Studies Hub (TS Hub), through the support of the Simpson Center for the Humanities, has served as a platform for discussion about the theories, histories, and practices of...

Translation Studies

Speaker at podium facing audience members

More-Than-Human Worlds: The Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities

During the summer of 2024, twenty undergraduate students at the University of Washington explored the poetics and politics of life in an intensive introduction to research methods in the arts and humanities. SIAH— the Summer...

Undergraduate Education , Interdisciplinary Research

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