Writer in Residence Madison Snider: "The Vigilant Imagination of Abolition"

Inaugural Simpson Center Writer in Residence, Madison Snider (Communication) has published her first article, "The Vigilant Imagination of Abolition." The article is the first installment in a three-part series around this year's Keywords, a series that explores specialized, complicated, contentious, or ambiguous terms. The video on "Abolition" is forthcoming, and, in the interim, we encourage you to read Snider's article on Medium.

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Now Streaming: Building Trans Futures In Public Scholarship and Trans Studies

Imagining Trans Futures hosted a live panel in March 2022 featuring the first Black transgender woman elected to public office, Andrea Jenkins (Vice President of Minneapolis City Council) and ACLS Fellow Cassius Adair (Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota) on public scholarship in trans studies and the humanities, including the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. We welcome you to watch their discussion and consider including it in your own courses on transgender studies, public scholarship, and community-engaged research.

Inside Higher Ed Features Simpson Center Collaborations with Two-Year Colleges

Simpson Center Assistant Director Rachel Arteaga has co-published an article in Inside Higher Ed with Cristóbal A. Borges (North Seattle College, History) and Jim Jewell (North Seattle College, English) on how to support research university doctoral candidates as they build collaborations with and consider careers in two-year colleges. Read the full Inside Higher Ed article and watch the related event, Community Colleges in the 21st Century.

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Event

"Capitalist Frontier-Making in Northwest China: Technologies of Muslim Enclosure, Dispossession and Subtraction" a lecture by Darren Byler

Jun 2, 2022

4:00pm

Communications 202

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Translation Studies Colloquium, with Darren Byler

Jun 3, 2022

12:30pm

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Utopian and Sacred Architecture Studies (USAS) - 2nd Edition

Jun 14, 2022

2:00am

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Anne Curzan: "Hyperstandardization and Its Ideological Tensions"

May 19, 2022

4:00pm

Student Union Building (HUB)

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Call for Participants: Faculty Retirement Seminar

Retirement for faculty raises fundamental questions about what it means to be a professor and how one’s identity and purpose are defined by more than the specific demands of a ‘job’. The purpose of this...