The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our Fellowship and Collaborative Project awards for 2024-2025 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent funding round.
In the summer of 2024, the Simpson Center for the Humanities will pilot faculty fellowship support with a thematic emphasis, convening a cohort of faculty actively working on research projects that address this year's theme: aspects of the broad spectrum of religious cultures, sacred practices, and spiritual teachings.
The 2023-2024 Season of Going Public features "audio from the archive" of Katz Distinguished Lecturers. Each month, we release a past lecture from speakers such as Robin D.G. Kelley (2010) and Wendy Brown (2008). We invite you to share the lectures with students in your classrooms and join us in listening to an archive of public lectures in the humanities.
Last year, the 2022-2023 Writer-in-Residence Nanya Jhingran (English) interviewed Jasmine Mahmoud (Drama) on her multiple roles as a public scholar, curator, and project leader.
With the objective of establishing a graduate-level Translation Studies Certificate, the UW Translation Studies Hub (TSH) is thrilled to announce a 2023-2024 grant for faculty participation in the working group tasked with the development of a Translation Studies Proseminar. This working group will spend the academic year designing a series of interlinked graduate-level syllabi, which will make the regular teaching of the Translation Studies Proseminar possible on an annual basis through the rotation of host departments and teaching faculty.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities is proud to announce our Second and Third Book 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.
The Simpson Center is proud to announce the 2023-2024 line-up of Katz Distinguished Lectures. The season will open on Thursday, November 30, 2023 with Katherine McKittrick, Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queens University in Kingston, Canada.