Welcome to the Simpson Center
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This year’s Fall Funding Round opens on October 1. Funding covers the term July 2020-June 2021. The deadline for all Fall Funding Round applications is November 8.
This fall, the Simpson...
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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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| 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... |