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We're excited to announce the launch of our new video series, Keywords, in which Simpson Center-affiliated scholars introduce ideas central to their work by talking about keywords that are...
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The Simpson Center is offering two residential dissertation fellowships for the AY 2020-2021 in association with a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Humanitarianisms: Migration and Care in the...
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Beginning in the eighteenth century, so-called scientific theories proclaimed that a “lost” race vastly superior to America’s “savage” Indians must have built the massive mounds spread...
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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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| #UWtranslators: Q&A with Professor José Alaniz #UWtranslators is a series of interviews with translators by the UW Translation Studies Hub. By Jesús Hidalgo José Alaniz is a Professor in the Department of Slavic Language and Literature and... |
| CHCI-ACLS Fellow Joel Alden Schlosser on the Politics of Refusal, Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the Language of Flourishing By Denise Grollmus On November 20, Joel Alden Schlosser will be giving a talk, “Politics is for the Dogs: Diogenes the Cynic and Political Refusal,” that emerges from his current work as a 2019-2020... |
| De-Carbonizing Academic Conferencing: Humanities Scholarship in an Era of Climate Change By Rachel Arteaga On Thursday, September 19, organizers and activists were in the final phases of preparing for what would become the largest climate mobilization in history. Over the course of the... |