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Prominent Japanese artist and curator Fram Kitagawa has been denied a visa to speak at the University of Washington, allegedly due to his involvement in student protests in the 1960s.

Louisa Mackenzie’s (French & Italian) recent essay on sea monsters contributes to a lively discussion on animal studies and identity in Early Modernism.

Sonal Khullar (Art History) has a new book, Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 (University of California Press). From the publisher: Drawing on Edward Said’s notion of “affiliation” as a critical and cultural imperative against...

The year-long seminar is led by Galya Diment, recently named the Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor in Western Civilization. She will lead bi-monthly seminars with six Joff Hanauer Excellence in Western Civilization Graduate Fellows.

Margaret O’Mara (History) has published a new book, Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century.

The program, supported by a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, builds on years of work at the Simpson Center to reform doctoral education. It offers three components that take graduate student professional development as a shared priority...

Suhanthie Motha (English) has won the 2015 Critics' Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association. Suhanthie’s book, Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice (Teachers College Press, 2014), shows how language is used...

Through digital maps, charts, and other visualizations, James Gregory's online project creates a political geography of American radicalism.

María Elena García wants us to expand our sense of what lives matter. She co-leads The Postcolonial Animal, a research cluster putting postcolonial theory in conversation with the growing field of animal studies. Supported by the Simpson Center for the...

In the belly of Amazon.com’s digital publishing empire, there is a cryptic requirement for authors using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), a self-publishing service. Authors may publish almost anything they want, as long as they follow this rule: “We do not...

What are we celebrating these days at the Simpson Center? We’re so glad you asked … Annie Fee (Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature) received a three-year postdoctoral fellowship from the British Academy. She will study at University College London, building on...

With Affect & Audience in the Digital Age, a research project at the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Sarah Dowling and Amaranth Borsuk are exploring how the the possibilities of poetry are changing in the digital age.