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Here’s a roundup of programming, projects, and events that will be taking place at the Simpson Center this summer, including three summer institutes, two groups of summer fellows (one in...
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On the eve of the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies’ first year, we take a look back at how faculty and graduate students have been working together through the Simpson...
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The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces a new two-year program—Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics: Catalyzing Collaboration—starting in September 2019, thanks...
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The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our first round of funding awards for 2019-20 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate...
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| 2019-2020 Preview: Katz Distinguished Lectures Next year’s Katz Distinguished Lectures will touch on everything From Native American Earthworks that challenge the “new” in “New Materialism” and the art of living in the Anthropocene to mass... |
| Interrupting Privilege: UW Professor of Communication Ralina Joseph Is Teaching People to Talk About Race Across Generational and Racial Lines By Denise Grollmus On the night after the 2016 presidential election, fifty students and alumni gathered in the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center Theater. The mood was funereal as everyone took... |
| Gender Violence and Indigenous Resistance By Isaac Rivera “We are not asking for an apology. We just want it to stop.” —Yvonne Swan “The taking of Native children was not just for assimilation, but to take the land. When you break that... |