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2009-2010 BROWN BAG SCHEDULE
Presentations are held in 2339 F/AB unless otherwise specified.
Upcoming talks:
Tuesday, November 10th
Annie Higgins, Assistant Professor, CMLLC
“Woman’s Smile, History’s Gaze: Authority in Arabic Currencies”
Wednesday, November 11th
Dora Apel, Associate Professor, Art & Art History
"What is Radical Art Today?" ***Special Time: 12pm - 1pm***
Theme: Gender and Sexuality
The Faculty Fellowship awards grants of up
to $6,000 for summer salary, research assistants, travel, or a combination
of these.
Fifteen (15) copies of the application and CV should
be submitted to the Director, Humanities Center, by 5:00
PM on April 9, 2010.
Each application must have a coversheet.
Upcoming Funding Deadlines and Events
EDWARD
M. WISE DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
Each year the Humanities Center offers $12,000 in support to one
student in the final stages of writing his or her dissertation through
the Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fellowship.
Deadline: November
13, 2009.
Summary of Programs
2009-2010
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RESIDENT
SCHOLARS PROGRAM
This program is open to all WSU full-time faculty in the humanities,
arts, and related disciplines. Resident scholars are provided
with an office in the Humanities Center, a computer, and other
office furnishings, and use of the Center's fax and photocopying
machines. Residents are also eligible to apply for up to $800
for travel to conferences to report on their approved projects,
or for payment for research assistance. This program should be
especially attractive to faculty who will be on sabbatical leave
for all or part of the year.
Tentative Deadline: July 9, 2010.
FACULTY
FELLOWSHIPS
The Faculty Fellowship competition is based on an annual theme.
The Humanities Center’s Advisory Board selects the theme
and prepares an explication for our Faculty Fellowship Competition.
Awarded Fellowships now average $6,000 and recipients are expected
to participate in the annual Faculty Fellows Conference held in
the spring of the following year. The theme for the 2010 competition
will be Gender and Sexuality.
Deadline: April
9, 2010.
FACULTY
FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE
The Faculty Fellows Conference is held in the winter semester.
Internal Faculty Fellows Conferences speakers are the recipients
of fellowships in the previous year. The conference allows the
fellowship recipients to present the result of their funded work
and to receive feedback from the audience. In addition to fellowship
recipients from WSU, the center invites distinguished keynoters
who are experts in the area addressed by the theme. The 2010 conference
theme is The Environment.
Tentative conference date: Friday, March 26th 2010.
FALL
SYMPOSIUM
The Fall Symposium is held once a year in November. It focuses
on a topic of contemporary significance in humanities and arts.
Internal speakers are chosen from abstracts submitted by WSU faculty
members. In addition to speakers from WSU, the center invites
a distinguished keynoter who is an expert in the area addressed
by the theme.
The symposium will be held
in Fall of 2010.
OPEN COMPETITION
GRANT
The Humanities Center strives to be as open and
inclusive as possible in its annual competitions and to offer
a variety of rich and broad themes and topics. However, the Center
also recognizes that some themes or topics inadvertently might
exclude important and exciting research at a critical time in
its development. The intent of the "Open Competition"
grant, then, is to compensate for these unavoidable exclusions.
The proposed project makes an interdisciplinary and innovative
contribution to the humanities or arts, does not conform to guidelines
for other competitions sponsored by the Humanities Center and
is at a critical point in its development toward publication.
All WSU full time faculty are eligible to apply. The Center will
fund up to three (3) projects up to $4,000 each.
Deadline: November 13, 2009.
WORKING
GROUPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS
Three or more faculty members, or faculty and graduate students,
from at least two different departments meet regularly throughout
the academic year to pursue a shared scholarly or creative interest.
The Center will support up to five working groups making available
a maximum of $800.00 for three new groups and $600.00 for two
continuing groups for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Tentative Deadline:
October 1, 2010.
