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Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities: 2023 Theme, Faculty, and Call for Applicants
About The Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities (SIAH) The Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities (SIAH) was created by the Undergraduate Research Program (URP) in collaboration with the Simpson Center for the Humanities in 2002 to provide...Read More >
Undergraduate Education, Black Studies, Interdisciplinary Research, Humanities, Higher Education
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Announcing the Fall 2023 Funding Round Recipients
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Fellowship and Collaborative Project awards for 2023-2024 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent spring funding round. Generally speaking, the Simpson Center...Read More >
Awards
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Congratulations 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Awardees
Summary This year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded two Fellowships, a Research and Development Grant, and a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. Please join us in congratulating this year's recipients. Fellowships Jennifer Bean (Cinema & Media Studies), 2018-2019...Read More >
Awards
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Humanities Data Science Summer Institute: Three Calls for Applicants
The Interdisciplinary Minor in Data Science at the University of Washington is organizing a “Humanities Data Science Summer Institute," which will pair undergraduate and graduate students with UW faculty or staff who are engaged in humanities data science research during...Read More >
Digital Humanities, Higher Education, Pedagogy
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On "Asian/American Ecologies of Trans Care"
The Imagining Trans Futures Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster was first convened by Ching-In Chen (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell) and Neil Simpkins (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell). Despite the crisis and constraints produced by COVID-19, or perhaps as careful...Read More >
Trans Studies, Public Scholarship, Asian American, Performing Arts, Interdisciplinary Research
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Prior Katz Lecturer Gives Nov. 14 Keynote at UW
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Dianne Harris interviews Cathy Davidson, prior Katz Distinguished Lecturer and author of The New Education, in a keynote conversation on Monday, November 14th at 1:30 pm in the Husky Union Building South...Read More >
Higher Education
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2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow Receives Prestigious Award
Ying-Hsiu Chou (Asian Languages & Literature) has won Second Prize for the Best Video Essay at the 2022 Adelio Ferrero Film and Critics Festival, held in Alessandria, Italy. Her videographic essay, "Deconstructing the Construction: The Female Images in Chinese Detective...Read More >
Cinema, Asian Languages & Literature, China, Digital Humanities
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New Podcast! Going Public: Reimagining the PhD
The Simpson Center is excited to announce the launch of Going Public, a podcast dedicated to exploring public scholarship and publicly-engaged teaching in the humanities. Since 2015, two successive Andrew W. Mellon-funded grant initiatives under the name "Reimagining the Humanities...Read More >
Public Scholarship, Higher Education, Doctoral Education, Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary Research
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Watch The Maple Cutter at a Local Film Festival this Fall
The Maple Cutter, an Unthinkable Films project led by filmmakers Lynn M. Thomas (History), Danny Hoffman (JSIS and CHID), and Michael Sanderson, has been accepted into three Washington State film festivals!Read More >
Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, News
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2022-23 Imagining Trans Futures Writing Group Call + Meet and Greet
About the Call for Participants Imagining Trans Futures is continuing its writing group this year! This writing group is for University of Washington trans-identified alumni, faculty, staff, and grad students across the three campuses. Starting in November, the group will...Read More >
Trans Studies, Writing Studies, Creative Writing
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Call for Applications: Grants Available to Design Translation-Focused Modules for Existing Undergraduate Courses
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 grant for the development of short (2-4 instructional hours) translation-focused modules for existing courses, which...Read More >
Translation Studies, Pedagogy
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Braj and Beyond
On August 5th and 6th, Purnima Dhavan (History) and Heidi Pauwels (Asian Languages and Literature) organized for the South Asia Center an advanced workshop in the scholarship of Classical Hindi and its associated vernaculars, captured in the term “Hindavī.” This...Read More >
Asian Languages & Literature, Translation Studies