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Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW Missed Katz Lecturer Dipesh Chakrabarty on "Between Globalization and Global Warming: The Long and the Short of Human History"? Watch or listen online: http://bit.ly/uwkatz
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Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington
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Katz Lecturer Dipesh Chakrabarty on Between Globalization and Global
Warming: The Long and the Short of Human History. Today at 7pm in Kane
220. http://bit.ly/uwkatz
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Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW Platforms for Public Scholarship holds a public event with Jan Cohen-Cruz & Kevin Bott on Conceiving Practice, Organizing Policy. The purpose of the public forum is to enlarge discussions already underway among the 2009-10 Platforms fellows and engage other stakeholders in public scholarship and graduate education. To...day at 3:30pm, CMU 226. http://bit.ly/platformsps
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Stephen Majeski (Political Science) presents his new book "U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire" today at 4pm in CMU 202. More Info:
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Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW Two great performance studies events tonight! At 7pm, Australian performance artist Stelarc lectures on the Age of the Cadaver, the Comatose and the Chimera: http://bit.ly/Stelarc. At 6:30pm, Danz Lecturer Girish Karnad looks at how encounters with British colonialism reshaped the world of Indian entertainment: http://bit.ly/Girish_Karnad. http://bit.ly/Stelarc
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Cadavers can be preserved forever with plastination. Comatose bodies can be sustained indefinitely on life-support systems. Cryogenically suspended bodies await reanimation at some imagined future date. ...
The House and Senate bills currently before the Washington state legislature would result in cuts to higher education of between 23 and 31 percent during the 2009-2011 biennium. Please contact Governo...
Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW Listen to Kristine Matthews, Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design and head of the team who conceptualized the format and environmental design for the University District's Museum Without Walls Open to Question exhibit, in this morning's KUOW interview with Steve Scher. The Simpson Center co-sponsored this... event and reminds everyone that the opening reception is April 3.
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Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW Why do we need art? Former Simpson Center Visiting Scholar Ellen Dissanayake seeks answers through Darwinian analysis. Read about Dissanayake's ground-breaking work in the March 2009 issue of Columns.
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As a young woman in the 1950s, Ellen Dissanayake worked as a secretary to put her husband through graduate school. She stayed up late typing his papers. She circulated at faculty parties. She trained for that peculiarly-midcentury career, faculty wife.
Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW will have print copies of the Spring Quarter Highlights Brochure available April 1. For a sneak peek at all the amazing line-up of Spring events, click the link for a PDF of the print brochure.
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Peter Leonard Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW: The Simpson Center is a member of HASTAC.
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A consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, and engineers, of leading researchers and nonprofit research institutions, HASTAC ("Haystack") is committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology. ...