Call for Proposals: Fall 2024 Funding Round

The Simpson Center for the Humanities will begin accepting proposals for its Fall Funding Round on Friday, October 11, 2024. Applications are due Friday, November 15, 2024.

From Demography to Kinship: The Crisis of Population Aging

Join us on November 13 at 3:30pm (CMU 202) for a talk by Stephen Katz (Sociology, Trent University) on the historical characterization of older people as a problematical population. He will move beyond population itself and its demographic crisis models of reproduction, drawing on radical concepts of kin and kinship derived from feminist, Indigenous and posthumanist thinking to envision a more inclusive and relational approach to age-based change.

Katz Distinguished Lecture: James Gregory, December 3, 2024

On December 3, James Gregory (History) will give a Katz Distinguished Lecture on how the West Coast became the "Left Coast." Appearing first in the 1980s, the term “Left Coast” has further underlined the significance of progressive and radical movements in the political systems and reputations of these states. Gregory will explore the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue state traditions.

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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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Bill Holm Center 20th Anniversary Symposium

Nov 2, 2024

11:00am

Kane Hall (KNE)

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Ibsen in Drag: A conversation with Cherdonna Shinatra (Jody Kuehner) and Maggie L. Rogers

Nov 4, 2024

4:00pm

Communications Building (CMU)

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QueerCrip Co-Lab

Nov 4, 2024

2:00pm

Communications Building (CMU)

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Book Launch | Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism | Prof. Aria Fani in conversation with Anna Learn

Nov 6, 2024

12:00pm

Denny Hall (DEN)

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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

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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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Announcing Spring Funding Round Recipients

The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Collaborative Project, Faculty Summer Reading, and Graduate Research Cluster awards for 2024-2025 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our...

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