Writer in Residence Madison Snider: "The Parking Lot, The Power Line, and The Home"

Inaugural Simpson Center Writer in Residence, Madison Snider (Communication) has published her second article on the keyword "Infrastructure": "The Parking lot, the Power Line, and the Home." The article is the second installment in a three-part series around this year's Keywords, a series that explores specialized, complicated, contentious, or ambiguous terms. The article links to the video (Re)Imagining Home in the Crisis of the ‘Prison Fix’ through Narrative Story-Telling. Read Snider's article on Medium.

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.

Call for Applicants: 2022-2023 Course Development Grants

With the objective of making translation studies a more visible fixture of the UW undergraduate curriculum, the Translation Studies Hub is thrilled to announce a 2022-2023 grant for new course development. This call enthusiastically encourages all humanities and humanistic social sciences colleagues interested in designing a thematically focused course on translation to send a 500-750 word syllabus abstract by September 1, 2022. Learn more in the Call for Applicants.

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UW Libraries Storytelling Fellows: Podcasting workshop application deadline

Jul 6, 2022

12:00am

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Volunteering at The Borgen Project

Jul 23, 2022

2:00pm

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Braj and Beyond: Hindavi Reading Workshop

Aug 5, 2022

12:00am

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Educator Workshop | Europe, the European Union, and Russia: Navigating an Uncertain Future

Aug 17, 2022

9:00am

Thomson Hall (THO)

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Announcing the Spring 2022 Funding Round Recipients

The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Second Book Fellowship and Collaborative Project awards for 2022-2023 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent spring...