Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Fellowship for the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History

FYI due March 30.
For more information visit
(http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewpage&page_id
=BA0F6A5D-D0B2-1CEA-5778CABEA131F76E).

Mystic Seaport invites applications for the annual competition for the Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship. Paul Cuffe, born in 1759 on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, was the son of a Wampanoag Indian mother and a former slave father. Active in the Quaker community, he founded a free school in Westport, Massachusetts. Before his death in 1817 he became a sea captain, shipowner, landowner, and respected community leader.

Since 1989, Mystic Seaport's Paul Cuffe fellowship has provided funds to thirty-five researchers from universities, colleges, and museums. The fellowships are offered to encourage research that considers the participation of Native and African Americans in the maritime activities of New England, primarily its southeastern shores. Fellowships support research and writing, a portion of which should normally be carried out in the Mystic area. The fellowships of up to $2,400 are made possible through the generosity of a local private foundation.

Gerald R. Ford Library Research Grants

FYI due March 15 and Sept. 15.
For more information visit
(http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/hpgrants.asp).

Two grant programs are available to support research in the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Library. These holdings focus on Federal policies, U.S. foreign relations, and national politics in the 1960s and 1970s. There are earlier and later materials depending upon your topic. The grant programs are:

The Gerald R. Ford Foundation awards several Research Travel Grants of up to $2,000 each in support of research in the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Library. A grant defrays travel, living, and photocopy expenses of a research trip to the Ford Library. Grants are awarded twice a year with application deadlines of March 15 and
September 15.

The "Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award (Dissertation Award) in Honor of Robert Teeter" in the amount of $5,000 is given annually to one individual to support dissertation research on an aspect of the U.S. political process during the latter part of the twentieth century. See details about the award

The Irene Ledesma Prize

FYI due May 1.
For more information visit
(http://www.westernwomenshistory.org/cfp.htm).

The Coalition for Western Women’s History announces the 10th Annual Irene Ledesma Prize, 2008. For Ph.D. graduate student research in western women’s history. Deadline for submission: May 1, 2008.

The $1,000 prize supports travel to collections or other research expenses related to the histories of women and gender in the American West. Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program and members of the CWWH. The prize honors the memory of Irene Ledesma whose contributions to Chicana and working-class history were ended by her untimely death in 1997.

The CWWH will award the prize at the CWWH Breakfast during the 48th Annual Western History Association conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 22 – 25, 2008.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship

FYI continusous submission
For more information visit
(http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/stip_aus/tshp1.htm).

This fellowship program enables highly qualified scientists and scholars, aged up to 40 years, of all nationalities and disciplines resident outside of Germany who hold doctorates to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany. Applications may be submitted at any time for research stays of up to two years.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is particularly interested in attracting highly qualified young scholars from countries strongly influenced by Islamic culture, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany. Applications may be submitted for long-term research stays of at least 6 and at most 12 months; an extension of up to 24 months is possible. Scholars from the disciplines of humanities, social sciences, and law may apply to the AvH directly at any time. There are no quotas for individual countries and disciplines. Funding is not available for short-term study visits, participation in conferences, or training courses.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Q&A with Linda Radzik

We asked Linda Radzik (Department of Philosophy), who presented on Wednesday, 23 January on "Changing the Past," a few questions about her work:


MGGCHR: What is your presentation's argument?

Linda Radzik: It is sometimes said that atonement for wrongdoing is impossible (at least for a secular worldview) because the past cannot be changed. In this paper I examine a number of compelling accounts of atonement that suggest the past can be changed in some morally meaningful sense. I argue that these accounts ultimately fail as accounts of atonement, however, because changing the past turns out not to address the core problem of wrongdoing.

MGGCHR: How did you hit on the focus of your current research and what interests you about it?

Linda Radzik: I had already done some work related to punishment, forgiveness and attributions of collective responsibility for wrongdoing. All of these are issues that deal with the aftermath of wrongdoing. It occurred to me that the philosophical literature almost always proceeds from the point of view of either a victim or a judge, but never of the wrongdoer herself. The literature asked, "What should we do with wrongdoers?" but not, "What should I do if I am the wrongdoer?" This struck me as deeply problematic--as an attempt to "other" wrongdoers, rather than to acknowledge our own moral fallibility.


MGGCHR: What is the most interesting place your research has taken you?

Linda Radzik: Because I had such a hard time finding discussions of atonement in the philosophical literature, I had to look farther afield. One thing I did was to search for representations of atonement in film, literature and popular culture. I've become something of an expert on the TV show, "My Name is Earl."

MGGCHR: What is your favorite course to teach, and what makes it your favorite?

Linda Radzik: I enjoy any class where I get to teach moral philosophy. I especially like to consider questions such as: Are moral claims the sorts of things that are true or false? Is morality just a matter of convention? Why should I be moral? Morality is a very odd thing. It is easy to see why we should be skeptical about it. But, I find, it is impossible to simply remain agnostic about morality. You have to make choices, and so you have to find some way to understand yourself as making choices that are better rather than worse.

MGGCHR: If you had the opportunity to invite any living humanities scholar to come speak at the Glasscock Center, who would it be and why?

Linda Radzik: I am a big fan of Christine Korsgaard, a philosopher at Harvard and author of my favorite book on the foundations of morality. I don't always agree with her conclusions, but her arguments are always fascinating.

MGGCHR: If you were stranded on a desert island, what material would you want with you?

Linda Radzik: A boat with an outboard motor and plenty of gasoline.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

The following is a list of next week’s events supported by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and/or its affiliated programs:

**Monday, 28 January**
Queer Studies Working Group Meeting: 2:00-3:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
Digital Humanities Lecture: Mike Godwin (Wikimedia Foundation), presenting “After the Revolution,” 4:00 p.m., Evans Library, Room 204E.

**Tuesday, 29 January**
Buttrill Endowment for Ethics Roundtable: “Ethics, Money, and Intercollegiate Sport,” 3:30-5:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Wednesday, 30 January**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. Featuring Cheryl Hanks, Assistant Dean, College of Liberal arts.

**Thursday, 31 January**
Graduate Colloquium: Michael Doron (History), presenting “The End of the Disinterested Profession: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Union Corruption Scandals of the 1950s,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Friday, 1 February**
Digital Humanities Lecture: Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill), presenting “The Open Video Digital Library: The Challenge of Transition from Test Bed to Sustainable Library,” 3:00 p.m., Evans Library, Room 204E.

**If you are interested in meeting with any of our visiting speakers contact Dr. Donnalee Dox at dox@libarts.tamu.edu
**For further information consult the Glasscock Center website at http:// glasscock.tamu.edu/
**For current events at the Glasscock Center consult our blog at http://glasscockcenter.blogspot.com/

Gary Marchionini to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce a public lecture in its continuing series on Digital Humanities. Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, will give a lecture entitled "The Open Video Digital Library: The Challenge of Transition from Test Bed to Sustainable Library," on Friday, 1 February 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the Evans Library, Room 204E. This event is free and open to the public.

In his lecture, Marchionini will discuss the challenges posed by transitioning contemporary library resources to new media technologies. Marchionini, former director of the Perseus Project (a digital library devoted to classical culture), now directs the Interaction Design Laboratory at Chapel Hill, is editor-in-chief of the ACM Transaction on Information Systems, and is the author of Information Seeking in Electronic Environments (1997).

The lecture series continues on 27 February at 4:00 p.m. in the same location with a talk by Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria on “Imagining the Electronic Book.”

For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

“Ethics, Money, and Intercollegiate Sport” Buttrill Endowment for Ethics Roundtable

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its inaugural roundtable discussion supported by the Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowment for Ethics. On Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. members of the Texas A&M University community will discuss “Ethics, Money, and Intercollegiate Sport” in the Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building.

The roundtable will include Jamila Ganter, Student Assistant Coach for the Women’s Basketball Team; Arnold LeUnes, Department of Psychology; Justin Moore, Special Assistant to the Senior Associate Athletics Director; Steven B. Moore, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President for Communications; Emily Sparvero, Department of Health and Kinesiology; and John Thornton, Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student Development.

The Buttrill Endowment for Ethics sponsors an annual public lecture and a campus roundtable on a matter of current, general ethical concern; it also supports the exploration of teaching and research on ethics within specific academic disciplines.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at 979-845-8328.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

The following is a list of next week’s events supported by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and/or its affiliated programs:

**Wedesday, 23 January**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Faculty Colloquium: Linda Radzik (Philosophy), presenting “Changing the Past,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.


**If you are interested in meeting with any of our visiting speakers contact Dr. Donnalee Dox at dox@libarts.tamu.edu
**For further information consult the Glasscock Center website at http:// glasscock.tamu.edu/
**For current events at the Glasscock Center consult our blog at http://glasscockcenter.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Mike Godwin of the Wikimedia Foundation to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce a public lecture in its continuing series on Digital Humanities. Mike Godwin, General Counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, will give a lecture entitled "After the Revolution," on Monday, 28 January 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in the Evans Library, Room 204E. This event is free and open to the public.

In his lecture, Godwin will discuss the impact of the digital revolution on the humanities. Godwin is an attorney who focuses on legal issues involving new media, speech, and intellectual property law and is the author of Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Cyber Age (1998). He has written for American Lawyer Media and The American Lawyer and has served as general counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as his current position with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The lecture series continues on 1 February at 4:00 p.m. in the same location with a talk by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill on “The Open Video Digital Library: The Challenge of Transition from Test Bed to Sustainable Library.”

For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

FYI due April 2. For more information visit
(http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html).

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively low-dollar grants during the planning stages, the goal is to identify projects that are particularly innovative and have the potential to make a positive impact on the humanities. In an effort to foster new collaborations and advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research, this program is co-sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as well as scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for these grants and to collaborate when appropriate.

Truman Library Grants

Research Grant Application Form and more information


Grants of up to $2,500 are awarded biannually and are intended to enable graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and other researchers to come to the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to use its collections. Awards are to offset expenses incurred for this purpose only.

Eligibility: Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars are particularly encouraged to apply, but applications from others engaged in advanced research will also be considered. Preference will be given to projects that have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues and that have a high probability of being published or publicly disseminated in some other way. The potential contribution of a project to an applicant's development as a scholar will also be
considered. An individual may receive no more than two Research Grants in a five year period.

Asian Cultural Council Grants

For more information visit
(http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/programs.html).

The Asian Cultural Council supports cultural exchange between Asia and the United States in the performing and visual arts, primarily by providing individual fellowship grants to artists, scholars, students,and specialists from Asia for study, research, travel and creative work in the United States. Grants are also awarded to Americans engaged in similar activities in Asia and to arts organizations and educational institutions for specific projects of particular significance to Asian-American cultural exchange. In addition, the Council awards a small number of grants in support of regional exchange activities within Asia.

The ACC's geographic purview covers an extensive area of Asia ranging from Afghanistan to Japan. Because the Council's grant funds are limited, however, priority consideration is currently being given to applicants from that area of Southeast and East Asia extending eastward from Burma through Japan.

Grants are made in the following fields: archaeology, architecture (design, theory, and history), art history, art and architectural conservation, crafts, dance, film, museology, music, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, theater, and video.