Simpson Center News

A Story of Liberation Preserved in LGBTQ History Project

Monday, November 28, 2016

New website chronicles activists who made Seattle a national pioneer for gay rights.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Announcing Funding Awards for 2016-17

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces its funding awards for the upcoming year.

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.