Simpson Center News

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David Shields: The Novel Is Dead; Long Live the Anti-Novel - Nov. 15
Monday, October 24, 2016
The bestselling author and UW Professor of English delivers a provocative argument for "evolution beyond narrative" in a Katz Distinguished Lecture, 7 pm, Tuesday, Nov. 15.
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Ethnography Unbound: Experiments in New Scholarship
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Sasha Su-Ling Welland curates a series of creative projects pushing past the limits of traditional academic writing.
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Rewriting the Narrative of Success for Humanities PhDs
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Bringing philosophy to children and shaking up attitudes toward study-abroad trips, UW graduate students are broadening the notion of successful scholarship.
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Why We Don’t Have Wings
Monday, September 26, 2016
Historian Phillip Thurtle draws on genetics, comics, film, and a vast array of cultural mythology to probe a question that haunts our collective past.
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NEH Awards $179,000 for Urban-Nature Summer Institute at UW
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
In 2017, UW faculty will lead college and university teachers in a three-week exploration of nature and the city.
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Announcing Funding Awards for 2016-17
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces its funding awards for the upcoming year.
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Announcing New Mellon Fellows for Reaching New Publics in the Humanities
Friday, May 27, 2016
These UW graduate students build connections between the UW and two-year colleges in the Seattle area, helping scholars and teachers understand the increasingly vital role of two-year colleges in higher education.
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A World in Translation: AmazonCrossing Editors Reveal Inside View on Publishing
Monday, May 23, 2016
Gabriella Page-Fort and Elizabeth DeNoma visit UW to describe Amazon’s foray into the long-neglected field of translation publishing.
Angela Durán Real Surveys Study-Abroad Attitudes at Two-Year College
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Angela Durán Real (Spanish & Portuguese) has conducted an innovative survey on attitudes toward study-abroad programs at South Seattle College.
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Teaching World Literature Conference at UW Oct. 21-22
Thursday, May 5, 2016
The conference Teaching World Literature will bring noted leaders in the field of world literature to the University of Washington on October 21-22, 2016.

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