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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Tateuchi East Asia Library Digital Scholarship Series

Jan 22, 2025

3:30pm

Gowen Hall (GWN)

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Singapore, A Problem of Interpretation

Jan 23, 2025

5:00pm

Communications Building (CMU)

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VIRTUAL LECTURE | Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa

Jan 24, 2025

12:00pm

Zoom

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Markku Jokisipilä on "Why are National Populists Gaining in Popularity all over Europe?"

Jan 24, 2025

3:00pm

Suzzallo Library (SUZ)

Call for Proposals: First Book Fellowships

Description In recognition of the challenges faced by early career tenure-track faculty, and in response to the very positive reception of our faculty summer fellowship program, the Simpson Center will offer support for First Books...

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

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