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African American Political Thought: Past and Present
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
African American Political Thought is a two-day conference taking place at the Simpson Center May 2-3, 2014. Organized by Jack Turner (Political Science), this conference convenes nationally recognized scholars from...
“Honey & Healing”: Fourth Annual Women Who Rock unConference & Film Festival, April 24-26, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
The Women Who Rock unConference & Film Festival returns for its fourth annual celebration this month with a series of three free events, open to audiences of all ages. This year, Women Who Rock centers on “Honey & Healing.” According to...
Public Scholar Profile: Sara Jo Breslow
Friday, March 28, 2014
Sara Jo Breslow is a postdoctoral associate at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Northwest Fisheries Science Center. While in the Environmental Anthropology doctoral program at UW, she participated in the...
UW Humanities Faculty Receive Fellowships and Awards
Friday, March 28, 2014
The Simpson Center congratulates UW faculty in the humanities who have recently been named the recipients of notable prizes, fellowships, and awards.
2014 Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities Explores Indigenous Histories, Politics, and Arts
Monday, March 3, 2014
Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities for UW undergraduates. An annual summer program, the Institute provides twenty competitively-selected students an opportunity to engage in primary...
Spring Funding Round Application Deadline: May 2, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
This year’s submission deadline for the Simpson Center’s Spring Funding Round is May 2, 2014. Funding covers the term July 2014-June 2015. Applications will be accepted beginning April 2.
Society for Textual Scholarship 2014 Conference: Textual Scholarship Across the Disciplines
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The 18th annual international conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship will be held March 20-22, 2014, at the University of Washington. The conference welcomes scholars whose work on the materiality of books and media...
Sharecropper’s Troubadour: The Story of John Handcox and Union Organizing Through Music
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Michael Honey, the Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Endowed Professor of the Humanities at UW Tacoma, was recently interviewed by NPR/KPLU 88.5 FM on his latest publication, Sharecropper’s Troubadour (2013). The book is an oral...
Ron Krabill Represents the UW at Humanities Advocacy Day, Washington, DC
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Ron Krabill (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell) will represent the Simpson Center and the UW at Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2014. Humanities Advocacy Day was established in 2000 by the...
UW Professor Stephen Hinds Delivers Winter 2014 Katz Lecture
Monday, January 27, 2014
A scholar of international standing, Stephen Hinds (Classics) investigates poetry across languages: he explores moments of connection between texts which approach the condition of translation without quite being the same as...

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