Kirk named next director of the Center for the Humanities
Big news for the humanities center! We’ll start the new academic year with a new director at the helm: Stephanie Kirk.
Research, revise, repeat: Training the academy’s next scholars
What does it take to join the professoriate – and would you want to? Those questions ground Arts and Sciences’ two undergraduate honors fellowships in the humanities, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and the Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship. Faculty directors Jonathan Fenderson and Jean Allman discuss the push-and-pull of teaching the research process, the students’ “fingerprints” on one another’s work and the moments of self-discovery they make along the way.
Real estate and the hidden history of the U.S. AIDS epidemic
Residential segregation based on racial and economic inequality is a pre-existing condition that exacerbates any transmissible health threat – from tuberculosis to COVID-19 to AIDS. René Esparza, assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, takes up the latter in a case study of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in his new book-in-progress, “From Vice to Nice: Race, Sex, and the Gentrification of AIDS.”
Bechdel to receive Washington University International Humanities Prize
The Center for the Humanities announces the recipient of its 2022 International Humanities Prize, cartoonist-memoirist Alison Bechdel. A lecture and award ceremony will take place Nov. 9 on the Washington University campus.
About the Center
The human fingerprint maps our identity, the ties that bind us, the lingering traces we leave on this earth. As humanists, we explore the durability as well as the fragility of the human condition — opening windows onto worlds near to home and oceans away, worlds we interpret through stories and images, poems and performance, history and narratives, sounds and silence. At Washington University in St. Louis, the Center for the Humanities facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.
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Funding new research in the humanities
Pursuing new scholarly ideas about the world takes funding — whether it's for a two-month tour of research sites in Japan or a two-week trip to an archive to view materials available only there — that can be hard to find via regular channels. The Center for the Humanities fills this gap with a number of funding opportunities for Washington University faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Learn more about their stories!
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Divided City Community Grant Info Session 2022
Zoom | https://wustl.zoom.us/j/91354370006
We are now accepting proposals for the third and final round of Divided City Community Grants. Divided City 2022 will offer grants between $5,000 - $20,000 to individuals and organizations in the St. Louis metro area engaged in community work or creative practice related to urban segregation. Members of the St. Louis community can apply without Washington University affiliation.
View EventDrop in session: Local History Open House
Special Collections Classroom, Olin Level 1
Organized by Special Collections, University Libraries; open to all WashU faculty and staff
View EventProposal-Writing Information Session & Workshop 2022
Danforth University Center, Room 276 and various
Information session and workshops for faculty and postdocs seeking external funding - registration by Friday, August 5 appreciated
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Our senses as sources of value
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The humanities center facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.
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