BLACK LIVES MATTER
In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight against systemic racism, anti-Blackness, and police brutality, the Simpson Center for the Humanities has compiled a list of videos,...
View ArticleAnnouncing Collaborative Project Funding Awards for 2020-2021
The Simpson Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce our collaborative project funding awards for 2020-2021 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and...
View ArticleCrisis Pedagogy: Between COVID-19 and Police Violence
By Kaelie Giffel and Caitlin Postal
View ArticleCALL FOR PROPOSALS: Global Literatures & Global Literacies Symposium
Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and NewUW, Seattle, April 30, 2021Proposals due December 1, 2020
View Article2020-2021 Fall Funding Round Application Deadline: November 6, 2020
This year’s Fall Funding Round opens on October 5. Funding covers the term July 2021-June 2022. The deadline for all Fall Funding Round applications is Friday, November 6.This fall, the Simpson Center...
View Article2020-2021 Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities
This year's Katz line-up features four speakers whose lectures will focus on everything from prison abolition and the influence of Silicon Valley on American Politics to African filmmaking and...
View ArticleCristian Capotescu Named the 2020-21 Sawyer Seminar on Humanitarianisms...
The Simpson Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce that Cristian Capotescu has joined the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care through the Global South as the...
View ArticleBuilding Community: A Writing Group for Trans Scholars
Come join our tri-campus online writing group for trans faculty and graduate students who work across the University of Washington system as part of the Imagining Trans Futurescrossdisciplinary...
View ArticleBeyond Pensions: The Faculty Retirement Seminar Offers Community and Support...
Judy Howard and Míċeál Vaughan both know that retiring from academia is a fraught enterprise: “While retirement is typically a life-changing event for almost everyone, for faculty especially it...
View ArticleMeshell Sturgis Awarded a 2021 AAC&U K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
Meshell Sturgis, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Communication and 2019 Mellon Summer Fellow for Public Projects in the Humanities, was selected as a 2021 recipient for the prestigious K....
View ArticleNEW Summer Funding Opportunities for Faculty
Given the challenges faculty face in the pandemic, the Simpson Center will pilot support in two categories: First Book Fellowships and Faculty Summer Reading Groups.
View ArticlePracticing Abolition: Native Nation Courts Today
About Practicing Abolition: Native Nation Courts TodayIn 2020, many scholars and activists began rethinking their relationship to the criminal punishment and learning about abolition in theory and...
View ArticleWhat is the Future of Transnational Historians at Community Colleges?
What is the Future of Transnational Historians at Community Colleges?by Jorge Bayona and Adrian Kane-GalbraithMar. 2, 2021
View ArticleSpring Mellon Sawyer Seminar Launches Apr. 1 with Sinan Antoon
The Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, "Humanitarianisms," launches its Spring events on April 1st. Author Sinan Antoon will discuss how material and discursive resources and energies are dedicated...
View ArticleTo Rethink Community College-Research University Partnerships, Legitimize the...
by Joe WilsonMar. 24, 2021
View ArticleFunding Categories Open for Spring Application
Funding Categories Open for Spring ApplicationThe Collaborative Projects funding round is now open and accepting proposals. The submission for each category below is April 30, 2021. More information on...
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