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Deadline Approaching, Letter of intent due 15 September 2015 SEED MONEY AWARDS 2015-16
Public Discourse Funding Opportunities
UCHI CALL FOR PROPOSALS
SEED MONEY AWARDS: 2015-16
Important Dates:
Letter of intent due: 15 September 2015
Invited application due: 15 October 2015
Announcement of awards: 15 November 2015
Fellowship award period: funds will be disbursed by the end of Fall semester, 2015; funds are to be spent over the course of AYs 2015-16 and 2016-17.
Next week we look forward to welcoming our 2015-16 Fellows
Next week we look forward to welcoming our 2015-16 Fellows
ARE YOU a UConn Humanities Author with a Recent Book Publication?
On December 9, 2015, CLAS Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) will host a celebration of Humanities Authors and Authors in the Related Social Sciences. We will honor authors who have published books on or after October 31, 2013. Books included in this celebration must be in print by October 31, 2015. If you are a humanities author with a book published within this time frame, please contact Tiziana Matarazzo at the UCHI to share the book title, publisher’s name, a photo of you and a high resolution electronic image of the book cover. The minimum size requirement of the image is 3.5 Mb. Books may be monographs, scholarly editions, translations, edited collections, textbooks or creative projects.
Tiziana can be contacted by email at: Tiziana.matarazzo@uconn.edu or by telephone at 486-9057. The deadline for receipt of this information is Thursday, October 1, 2015.
Research Excellence Program (REP) for the 2015-2016 academic year
The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the Research Excellence Program (REP) for the 2015-2016 academic year.
The primary goal of the Research Excellence Program (REP) is to provide seed funding to promote, support, and enhance the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of faculty at UConn, including (but not limited to) the strategic and emerging areas delineated in the Academic Plan. As an outcome of these awards, recipients are expected to submit proposals to extramural sponsors (federal, state, private, industry, or foundation sponsors) and/or carry out activities consistent with the highest standards of accomplishment in their discipline. The REP is designed to assist faculty, regardless of rank, in all areas of scholarly work and to facilitate the competitiveness of extramural funding opportunities as well as contribute to UConn’s national and international reputation as a premier research university.
Two broad categories of competitive awards are available. Proposals should be submitted to the category that best represents the project’s goals, methods of study, and expected outcomes rather than a specific discipline or area of study.
o Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Social Sciences
- Single PI awards capped at $25,000
- Multi-PI awards capped at $50,000
- Proposals should emphasize how the research will advance knowledge in the Sciences (basic and applied life science, physical sciences, mathematical science, social and behavioral sciences), Technology, Engineering, or Society (applied research, interdisciplinary research)
o Fine Arts, Humanities, Business, Law, and Engagement
- Single PI awards capped at $10,000
- Multi-PI awards capped at $25,000
- Proposals should emphasize how the research, project, or scholarship will advance the arts, humanities, business, law, education, creative endeavors, or engaged scholarship (community partnerships, evaluation research, participatory research)
Deadlines
o Letter of Intent must be submitted by 11/20/2015
o Full proposals must be submitted by 12/18/2015
o Notification of awards will be made by 5/1/2016
Program requirements are available at http://research.uconn.edu.
For further information, contact: research@uconn.edu
2014-2015 Graduate Dissertation Fellow Christina Henderson was appointed a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of American Literature
We are pleased to announce that our 2014-2015 Graduate Dissertation Fellow Christina Henderson was appointed a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of American Literature in the English and Foreign Languages Department at Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Georgia.
Congratulations!!
2014-2015 Graduate Dissertation Fellow Beata Moskal was appointed a 4 year post-doc position at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
We are pleased to announce that our 2014-2015 Graduate Dissertation Fellow Beata Moskal was appointed a 4 year post-doc position at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Congratulations!
The Inaugural Caribbean Philosophical Association Summer School at UCONN presents and invites you to join us for . . .
Three Public Lectures
6/1: 9:30 a.m., Class of 1947 Room “What the Jaguar Saw: Why Only Amerindians Can Save our Modern Soul,”
by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Birkbeck College, University of London
6/2: 2p.m., Oak Hall 408 “The Roots of Africana Political Philosophy,” by Paget Henry, Brown University
6/4: 2p.m., Class of 1947 Room “The Vertical Revolution and Political Spirituality,” by Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University
Questions? Email jane.gordon@uconn.edu
The Public Discourse Project is the recipient of a $1 million grant (UConn’s Humanities Institute in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
UConn Invests $10 Million in Support of Academic Vision
A new institute for brain and cognitive science and a humanities project exploring the barriers to meaningful public discourse are just two of the faculty-led initiatives the University of Connecticut is supporting through the allocation of nearly $10 million in grants.The three-year grants represent the first set of targeted school investments directly related to UConn’s new Academic Vision, which pursues excellence in five fundamental areas: undergraduate education, graduate study, teaching, engagement, and research.
The Public Discourse Project, also the recipient of a $1 million grant, will be overseen by UConn’s Humanities Institute in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Through the project, UConn faculty in the arts and humanities will explore ways to achieve meaningful public discourse in an increasingly divisive culture. Those involved with the project will look at the historical and sociological barriers that stymie productive social dialogue and, alternatively, the conditions that foster it. With anticipated additional funding from the John Templeton Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project is designed to establish UConn as an international leader in public and digital humanities research.
“The project aims not only to understand the sources of our cultural division, but to do something about it: to combine academic research and community engagement toward the goal of raising the level of discussion in the hope of strengthening democracy,” says philosophy professor Michael Lynch, director of the Humanities Institute.
Lessons in Resistance: Richard Wright as Social Critic and Political Thinker
MONDAY, MAY 11th
LOCATION: KATHARINE SEYMOUR DAY HOUSE
1:00 P.M. Meeting Opening: ENGAGING RICHARD WRIGHT AS A POLITICAL THINKER,
Ernie Zirakzadeh, Political Science, UCONN and Jane Gordon, Political Science & Africana Studies, UCONN
1:30 P.M. Panel I: BLACK SUBJECTIVITY
James Haile, Philosophy, Dickinson College,
111A Cryptic Tongue’: Richard Wright’s Phenomenological Sociology”
Lewis Gordon, Philosophy & Africana Studies, UCONN
“Richard Wright’s Black Consciousness, Steve Biko’s Politics”
3:15P.M. Panel II: RADICAL POLITICS
George Ciccariello-Maher, Politics and History, Drexel University,“Bigger’s Being, Wright’s Lumpen”
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Philosophy, Lewis University,
“Conceiving a New Politics: Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, and the Future of Critical Theory”
Dorothy Stringer, English,Temple University,
“Psychology and Black Liberation in Richard Wright’s Black Power (1954)”
TUESDAY, MAY 12th
LOCATION: MARK TWAIN CENTER
9:30 A.M. Panel Ill: ENGENDERED VIOLENCE
Floyd Hayes, Political Science & Africana Studies,Johns Hopkins University, “Womanizing Richard Wright: Constructing the Black Feminine in The Outsider” Tommy Curry, Philosophy and Africana Studies,Texas A&M University,
“Man of Work:The Rape and Execution of Willie McGee”
11:00 A.M. Panel IV: RHETORICAL REGISTERS
William Dow,Comparative Literature & English, American University of Paris,
“Richard Wright’s Literary Journalism: Reprimanding Race, Resisting Modernism”
Ernie Zirakzadeh, Political Science, UCONN,
“Modernist Culture and American Fascism: Bigger as Harbinger of White Politics”
Stephen Marshall, American Studies & African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin,
“The Prophetic Wright”
2:15 P.M. Panel V: UNCLE TOM’S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN
Jane Gordon, Political Science & Africana Studies, UCONN,“Slavery, Continued: Uncle Tom’s Grandchildren”
Laura Grattan, Political Science,Wellesley College,
“The Refusal to Compromise with Reality: Wright and Prison Abolitionism”
Generously sponsorsed by the UCONN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE Questions? email jane.gordon@uconn.edu
