The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

2008-2009 Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship

2008-05-14T12:47:00.000-07:00

2008-2009 Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship
Recipients Named

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Texas A&M University Libraries’ Sterling C. Evans Chair are pleased to announce Dr. B. Stephen Carpenter, II and Dr. Trina Davis as joint recipients of the 2008-2009 Evans/Glasscock Digital Humanities Project Fellowship. This fellowship provides $10,000 to support a project in digital humanities by faculty in any department in the university. The award aims to assist faculty projects that depend on or are fundamentally inflected by information technology, digitization, and computer-aided research.

Dr. Carpenter and Dr. Davis, both in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, received this year’s fellowship for their project “Establishing a TAMU Digital Humanities and Visual Culture Education and Research Island in Second Life.” The team will create an official presence for Texas A&M University in “Second Life,” a 3-D virtual world in which approximately 100 colleges and universities maintain a virtual campus. When completed, The Island will provide four types of spaces – for instruction, research-based exhibitions and symposia, office hours and meetings that support instruction, and public social life to sustain networking.

The Glasscock Center will make another call for this award in spring 2009. For further information contact James Rosenheim, Director, at 979-845-8328 or
j-rosenheim@tamu.edu, visit the Glasscock Center’s website.

American Council of Learned Societies - Digital Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Humanities Scholars

2008-05-05T11:31:00.000-07:00

Due Oct. 3
For more information visit
http://www.acls.org/fel-dead.htm

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the second annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may involve development of new digital tools that further humanistic research (such as digital research archives or innovative databases), research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, the representation of research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use of such tools, or some combination of these features.

Canadian Embassy - Canadian Studies Grant Program - Research Grants

2008-05-05T11:30:00.000-07:00

Due Spet 15
For more information visit
http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/washington/studies/grantguide-en.asp

The Research Grant Program promotes research that contributes to a better knowledge and understanding of Canada, its relationship with the United States, and its international affairs. The grant is designed to assist individual scholars, or a team of scholars, in writing an article-length manuscript of publishable quality and reporting their findings in a scholarly publication and at scholarly conferences, thus contributing to the development of Canadian Studies in the United States. Grant proposals are welcome from all fields in the social sciences and humanities.

Tinker Foundation, Inc. - Institutional Grants (Latin America)

2008-05-05T11:29:00.000-07:00

Due Spet. 1
For more information visit
http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/tinker/institu.html

The Tinker Foundation awards Institutional Grants to organizations and institutions that promote the interchange and exchange of information within the community of those concerned with the affairs of Spain, Portugal, Ibero-America, and Antarctica. (For the foundation's purposes, Ibero-America is defined as the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere.). Programmatically, the foundation funds projects addressing environmental policy, economic policy, or governance issues. Projects should have a strong public policy component, offer innovative solutions to problems facing these regions, and incorporate new mechanisms for addressing these programmatic areas. Activities may include, but are not limited to, research projects and conferences related to the foundation's areas of interest. The foundation encourages collaboration between organizations in the United States and Iberia or Latin America and among institutions in those regions.

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)

2008-05-05T11:27:00.000-07:00

Due Oct. 3
For more information visit
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is a strategic fellowship program designed to help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a reasonable time frame, and competitive in fellowship competitions.

Abe Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences or Humanities

2008-05-05T11:26:00.000-07:00

Due Spetember 1.
For more information visit
http://fellowships.ssrc.org/abe/

The Abe Fellowship supports professional research in the social sciences or humanities on contemporary policy-relevant issues, especially those which promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between Japan and America. Applicants must be citizens of the U.S. or Japan (or be able to demonstrate serious affiliations with research communities in the U.S. or Japan) and hold the terminal degree in their field by the start of their fellowship term.

Creativity and Aging in America NEA Initiative

2008-04-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

FYI due May 23
For more information visit
(http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/CreativityAging.html).

Creativity and Aging in America is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to actively engage older Americans in quality arts programs. Through this initiative, the Arts Endowment will support exemplary projects in the disciplines of literature and music. Projects must be conducted by professional artists and engage older adults as students, artists, and/or teachers. For the purposes of these guidelines, older adults are age 65 and above.

Recent research supported by the National Institutes of Health, AARP, International Foundation for Music Research, and the National Endowment for the Arts found that older adults who actively participated in ongoing, community-based arts programs, conducted by professional artists, experienced more physical and mental benefits than participants in non-arts activities. The research showed that active participation in the arts correlated positively with older adults' health outcomes and their sense of independence, potentially reducing risk factors that drive the need for long-term care.

Creativity and Aging in America will focus on the disciplines of literature and music. Activities may take place in a variety of settings such as senior centers, community centers, retirement centers, museums, literary centers, performing arts centers, libraries, schools, and healthcare facilities. Projects must be planned in cooperation with the target population including local organizations that address aging-related issues.

NEH Supercomputing Grants

2008-04-23T08:35:00.000-07:00

FYI due July 15
For more information visit
(http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hhpc.html).

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Office of Science in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) are working together to provide humanities scholars with access to DOE supercomputers. These grants provide computer time on DOE machines at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as training and support to enable scholars to take full advantage of those resources. Interested scholars will apply directly to NERSC, and hours will be awarded under the terms of the DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.

The INCITE program was conceived specifically to seek out computationally intensive, large-scale research projects with the potential to significantly advance key areas in science and engineering. With this partnership with NEH, the hope is that comparable research projects in the humanities will be able to take advantage of high performance computing resources. Successful applicants will be given access to computer and support resources at NERSC. In addition, winners will receive travel reimbursement funds to enable them (up to two people per project) to attend on-site training at NERSC.

Any scholar whose humanities research is computationally intensive may apply. Supported activities may include: mining of large textual datasets, morphological analysis, manipulations, and transformations; analysis of geographical information systems data, maps, etc.; and computationally demanding visualization, modeling, and pattern recognition and analysis. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for humanities scholars whose research requires high performance computing to collaborate with computer scientists and others at centers already familiar with the challenges of intensive data mining, visualization, and other demanding applications.

The American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowships

2008-04-23T08:33:00.000-07:00

FYI due July 1
For more information visit
(www.indiastudies.org)

The American Institute of Indian Studies invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (four months or less) fellowships are available for scholars who hold the Ph.D. degree. Some senior fellows in the humanities will receive fellowships funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Performing and Creative Arts fellowships are available for accomplished practitioners of the performing arts of India and
creative artists. Scholarly/professional development fellowships are available to scholars and professionals who have not previously worked in India. Eligible applicants include 1) U.S. citizens, and 2) citizens of other countries who are students or faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities. For applications, please contact us at American Institute of Indian Studies, 1130 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, (773) 702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu. Web site: www.indiastudies.org. The application deadline is July 1, 2008.

Smith Richardson Foundation’s International Security and Foreign Policy Program

2008-04-23T08:32:00.000-07:00

FYI due June 30
For more information visit
(http://www.srf.org/grants/JF_Domestic_Description.php).

The Smith Richardson Foundation’s International Security and Foreign Policy Program is pleased to announce its annual grant competition to support junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community. These grants are intended to buy-out up to one year of teaching time and to underwrite research costs (including research assistance and travel). Each grant will be paid directly to, and should be administered by, the academic institution at which the junior faculty member works. Projects in military and diplomatic history are especially encouraged. Group or collaborative projects will not be considered.

THE MELBERN G. GLASSCOCK CENTER NAMES INTERNAL FACULTY FELLOWS FOR 2008-2009

2008-04-23T08:31:00.000-07:00

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research has named its 2008-2009 Internal Faculty Fellows. They will be resident in the Glasscock Center in Spring 2009, pursuing scholarly projects under the theme “Journeys.” We conceive this theme to embrace considerations metaphorical and literal, contemporary and historical – of migration, travel, exile, transportation, exploration, tourism and more. We anticipate that conversation about journeys may include interrogation of any and all those terms by scholars from all the humanities disciplines and from the social sciences that adopt humanities perspectives. The recipients of these fellowships will be released from teaching during Spring 2009 and will receive a $1000 research stipend. In the Fall of 2009, they will present a symposium showcasing their work. The Center is pleased to announce the following Fellows and their projects.

Claire Katz, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies will explore, and respond to the flawed yet persistent model of education that governs the history of western philosophy and defines our contemporary views of education. The impact of this model is evident in the immediate influence it has on the educational process: the structure of the school, the content of curricula, and the pedagogical methods employed. It is also evident in how we think about and treat peoples and communities that are different from our own.

Robert R. Shandley, Associate Professor in the Department of European and Classical Languages and Culture, will concentrate on the recent representations of the expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe in recent German television mini-series. Several recent series concentrate on the expulsion and the fate of millions of civilian ethnic Germans at the end of the Second World War, returning the issue to the German public imagination.

Leah DeVun, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, will focus on understandings of intersex from the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, a critical period for the formation of ideas about sex, as well as for the establishment of professionalized fields such as medicine, surgery, and law, which demanded a dichotomous boundary between male and female. Enter Sex examines this crucial period in detail, and it considers how premodern thinkers produced a system of sex difference that continues to influence contemporary understandings of what makes humans male or female.

April Lee Hatfield, Associate Professor in the Department of History, will study how the legal and geographic distinctions that made the North American mainland and Caribbean borders function differently shaped profoundly the experiences of those who moved between empires and, therefore, the relations between empires. On the mainland, where Indians as well as Europeans drew and challenged borders, colonial enmities echoed those of Europe. By contrast, in the Caribbean the Atlantic context of political and religious rivalry delimited colonists’ and merchants’ less rigidly.

Other activities around the theme “Journeys” will include a lecture series by that name, a symposium in spring 2010, and other events. The Center will name further Internal Faculty Fellows for 2009-2010: a call for applications will be made in spring 2009. For further information contact James Rosenheim, Director, at j-rosenheim@tamu.edu, at 979-845-8328, or visit the Center’s website at http://glasscock.tamu.edu.

GRADUATE STUDENT STIPENDIARY FELLOWS AWARDED FOR 2008-2009

2008-04-16T09:14:00.000-07:00

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research has made research awards to the following graduate students for 2008-2009 under its Graduate Stipendiary Fellowship program.

Courtney Beggs (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English), “‘Safely then She Ventures’: Identity and Ariadne’s Risk-Free Investment”

Blanca A. Camargo (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences), “A Framework for Cultural Sustainability in the Cultural Space of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia”

Damian Carpenter (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English), “Woody Sez and Dylan Weaves: The Continuing Tradition of the Outlaw in American Folk Music”

Seenhwa Jeon (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English), “Empire and the Geography of Memory in Ex-centric Retellings of Modern History”

Larkin Kennedy (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology), “Bioarchaeological Investigation of the Presence and Integration of Foreigners in Classical Corinth”

Hyang-mi Lee (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English), “The Place of Memory: A Regionalized History in Amitav Ghosh’s Work”

Derek R. Mallet (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History), “Hitler’s Generals in America: U.S. National Security and the Evolution of Prisoner of War Policy”

Nicole McDaniel (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English), “Seriality in Contemporary American Memoir 1957-2007”

Gina Opdycke Terry (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English), “Artful Interactions: Visual Art and Literary Text in Romantic Period Works”

Carrie Elizabeth Atkins (M.A. Candidate, Department of Anthropology), “More Than a Hull: Social Space and Religious Ritual Onboard the Ancient Ship”

NEH and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, the National Research Council) Research Fellowships

2008-04-16T08:07:00.000-07:00

FYI due May 15
For more information
(http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowhips-italy.html).

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, the National Research Council) of the Government of Italy are cooperating in the support of scholarly research. NEH invites applications for humanities research focusing on Italy's cultural heritage in relation to that of the United States. Recipients will be awarded fellowships. The CNR will award fellowships to Italian scholars for research on similar topics in the United States. NEH and CNR each anticipate awarding up to three fellowships.

Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities.

Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools.

Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months.

Fellowships may not be used for:

curricular or pedagogical methods, theories, or surveys;
preparation or revision of textbooks;
projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view;
projects that advocate a particular program of social action;
works in the creative and performing arts, i.e., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.; or
doctoral dissertations or theses

NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers

2008-04-16T08:02:00.000-07:00

FYI due Sept. 15
For more information
(http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fdhc.html).

NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers (FDHC) support collaboration between digital centers and individual scholars. An award provides funding for both a stipend for the fellow while in residence at the center and a portion of the center's costs for hosting a fellow. Awards are for periods of six to twelve months. The intellectual cooperation between the visiting scholar and the center may take many different forms and may involve humanities scholars of any level of digital expertise. Fellows may work exclusively on their own projects in consultation with center staff, collaborate on projects with other scholars affiliated with the center, function as “apprentices” on existing digital center projects, or any combination of these. The results of the collaboration may range from “proof of concept” to finished product.

The aims of the program are to 1) support innovative collaboration on outstanding digital research projects; 2) expand digital literacy and expertise; 3) promote the work of digital humanities centers; and 4) encourage broad and open access to the humanities. FDHC grants are made to digital humanities centers and, therefore, a staff member of the digital humanities center must serve as the project director. Prospective fellows must apply through a digital center. Centers may submit one application per deadline; individual scholars may apply in collaboration with only one digital center per deadline. Awards support the scholar's fellowship in residence as well as a portion of the center’s direct and indirect costs of hosting such fellowships. The scholar in residence may not be employed by, or associated with, the institution that houses the center.

Wilson Center Scholars

2008-04-02T08:48:00.000-07:00

FYI due April 14
For more information visit
(http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1422&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=5989#short)

These scholarships are available to American citizens or permanent residents. Scholars working on policy relevant projects related to Southeast Europe or to the wider region but dealing with issues that can be linked to issues in the Western Balkans are eligible to apply. All projects should aim to highlight their potential policy relevance. Disciplines represented at JSTS 2007 included: anthropology; history; political science; and, Slavic languages and literatures.

DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program

2008-04-02T08:46:00.000-07:00

FYI due August 31
For more information visit
(http://www.aicgs.org/fellows/opps/daad.aspx).

The DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program, funded by a generous grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), is designed to bring scholars and specialists working on Germany, Europe, and/or transatlantic relations to AICGS for research stays of two months each. Fellowships include a monthly stipend of up to $4,725, depending on the seniority of the applicant, transportation to and from Washington, and office space at the Institute.

Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs

2008-04-02T08:45:00.000-07:00

FYI due May 1 (http://www.fulbright.ca/en/chairtext.asp).

Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs enable promising and prominent Canadian and American scholars, as well as experienced professionals to conduct research, develop collaborations, guest lecture and/or teach at select American and Canadian universities, respectively. In addition, successful candidates will have the opportunity to deliver public lectures, give seminar presentations, participate in conferences and otherwise contribute to ongoing research activities at the host institution.

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

2008-04-02T08:44:00.001-07:00

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:

**Wednesday, 2 April**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. Featuring Larry Oliver, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts.

Faculty Colloquium: Margaret Ezell (English), presenting “Elizabeth Isham and the Technologies of Memory,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Thursday, 3 April**
Glasscock Center Lecture Series “How Do We Keep Knowing?”: Dror Wahrman (Indiana University), presenting “How Do We Keep Knowing? An Eighteenth-Century End-run Around an Impossible Goal,” 7:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Friday, 4 April**
Co-Sponsored Event: Marwan Rashed (Ecole Normale Superieure), presenting “Socrates in the Phaedo and Aristophanes,” 3:00-5:00 p.m., Rudder 501. For more information contact Robin Smith at rasmith@tamu.edu.

**Saturday, 5 April**
Glasscock Symposium: “How Do We Keep Knowing?”: A Symposium on the Transmission and Preservation of Knowledge, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Hilton Hotel and Conference Center. More information available at http://glasscock.tamu.edu/Programs_Activities/Conferences/apr08hdwkksymp.html.

**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/

Q&A with Margaret Ezell

2008-03-27T08:42:00.000-07:00

Q&A with Margaret Ezell

We asked Margaret Ezell (Department of English), who presents on Wednesday, 2 April on "Elizabeth Isham and the Technologies of Memory," a few questions about her work:

MGGCHR: What is your presentation's argument?

Margaret Ezell: I'm not sure :-) I'm hoping that will become clearer through the discussion--

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

Margaret Ezell: I was invited to respond to two manuscript texts as part of a symposium held on them at Princeton in the fall. The aspect which most interested me was the ways in which the two manuscripts are so physically different, even though by the same person and about the same time period.

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

Margaret Ezell: One of the prettiest was the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, which took me many, many hours by train to reach through gorgeous landscape. One of the strangest was the former coal hole at Christ Church College, Oxford, where at that time they kept their manuscript collection and was opened with an enormous iron key...

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

Margaret Ezell: Hard to say--I really like teaching the Milton & his Contemporaries course because he was in the middle of such interesting times and so involved in the events of it, along with a lot of very interesting other people. And, of course, he is an amazing poet. The most fun course I have taught recently was called "Drama Queens" and was about women and the theatre in the early modern period, as writers, performers and patrons. I learned a lot putting that one together.

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?

Margaret Ezell: Helene Cixous--because she is still amazing.

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

Margaret Ezell: Probably a good radio transmitter to get me off of it!

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

2008-03-26T12:07:00.000-07:00

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, 24 March**
Visiting Fellow: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego) will be in residence all week.

**Tuesday, 25 March**
Co-Sponsored Event: Gabriel Peveroni, “Territorios Ocupados,” 4:00 p.m., Academic Building, Room 128. For more information contact Sarah Misemer at smisemer@tamu.edu.

Glasscock Center Lecture Series “How Do We Keep Knowing?”: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego), presenting “Journalism in an Era of ‘Truthiness’,” 7:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Wednesday, 26 March**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. Featuring Michael Schudson, Visiting Fellow.

Visiting Fellow Colloquium: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego), 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Thursday, 27 March**
Graduate Colloquium: Jared Peatman (History), “Gettysburg Remembers the Address, 1913,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Friday, 28 March**
Women’s Studies Lunch Lecture: Eileen Cleere (Southwestern University), presenting “Intensive Culture: Aesthetics and Purity in the Eugenic Novels of Sarah Grand,” 12:30-1:30 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/

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

2008-03-05T08:02:00.000-08:00

Folks,
FYI 2008 due dates will be posted soon, but the 2007 guildlines can be used as reference(http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Fellowships.html)

NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months. NEH Fellowships may not be used for: curricular or pedagogical methods, theories, or surveys; preparation or revision of textbooks; projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; projects that advocate a particular program of social action; works in the creative and performing arts, e.g., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.; or doctoral dissertations or theses.

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

2008-02-28T10:48:00.000-08:00

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, 3 March**
American Culture Reading Group and Africana Studies Working Group Joint Meeting: 4:00-6:00 p.m., Blocker Building, Room 234. For more information contact Kim Cox at willow28@tamu.edu.

New Modern British Studies Working Group Lecture: Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto), presenting “Literary History and Men Who Love Too Much,” 7:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Tuesday, 4 March**
New Modern British Studies Working Group Colloquium: Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto), presenting “Dead Poet Love,” 2:30-3:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Wednesday, 5 March**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. Featuring Ben Crouch, Executive Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts.

Faculty Colloquium: Sabine Arnaud (EURO), presenting “Narratives of Hysteria and the Shaping of Eighteenth Century Medicine as a Discipline,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Thursday, 6 March**
Co-Sponsored Event: Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford), “Lone Star Tour Lecture in Philosophy,” 3:45-5:30 p.m., Bolton Hall, Room 213. For more information contact Robin Smith at rasmith@tamu.edu.

Graduate Colloquium: Jesse L. Rester (English), “Political Skin: Reading the Maria/Hel Complex in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Co-Sponsored Lecture: Amita Baviskar (Delhi University), presenting “Cows, Cars, and Cycle-rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi, India,” 4:00-6:00 p.m., Blocker Building, Room 203.

**Friday, 7 March**
APLICATIONS DUE: Co-Sponsorship Grants, Internal Faculty Fellowships, Graduate Stipendiary Fellowships, Faculty Stipendiary Fellowships, Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Award.

**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/

Lawrence Grossberg of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill to Present in the Glasscock Center Lecture Series “How Do We Keep Knowing?”

2008-02-27T07:56:00.001-08:00

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research announces a public lecture in its continuing series “How Do We Keep Knowing?” Dr. Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, will present "Economies, Discourses and Contexts: On Avoiding the Bottom Line," on Wednesday, 27 February 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Professor Grossberg’s numerous publications in cultural studies and communication include Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future (2005), “Does cultural studies have futures? Should it? (or What’s the matter with New York?)” in
Cultural Studies, and the monograph What’s going on? Cultural Studies und Popularkultur (2000). This lecture will address economic struggles taking place within the contemporary American context.

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 glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.

Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series

2008-02-27T07:55:00.000-08:00

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research announces a public lecture in its Digital Humanities series. Dr. Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria, will speak on "Imagining the Electronic Book," Wednesday, 27 February 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in Evans Library, Room 204E. This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Siemens has published many articles on the intersection of literary studies and computational methods and has co-edited numerous volumes on the topic including Companion to Digital Humanities and Companion to Digital Literary Studies and serves as the President for the Society of Digital Humanities. This lecture will address diverse possibilities for the future of the electronic book, and the impact those changes may have on the publishing industry and on literary studies.

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.

CCWH Catherine Prelinger Scholarship

2008-02-27T07:53:00.000-08:00

FYI due March 26
for more information visit
(http://theccwh.org/preapp.htm).

The Coordinating Council for Women in History is pleased to announce it will accept applications for the tenth CCWH Catherine Prelinger Award Scholarship of $20,000 which will be awarded to a scholar of excellence by July 1, 2008. This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study, moving from completed secondary, to undergraduate, then graduate degrees, followed by a tenure-track faculty position. These funds were granted to CCWH by an anonymous donor in honor of the many years of work this organization has devoted to exploring women’s history, encouraging opportunities for women in the historical profession, and in educating young women to pursue careers in the historical profession. This award is intended to enhance the ability of the recipient to carry on these CCWH traditions through contributions to women in history, either through scholarly or professional activity.

Eligible applicants must be members of CCWH and must hold either A.B.D. status or the Ph.D. at the time of application. They shall be actively engaged in scholarship that is historical in nature, although the degree may be in related fields. Applicants will show evidence of a nontraditional professional career and describe a project that will further enhance women’s roles in history. The Prelinger Committee encourages applications from independent and non-academic scholars. Application guidelines and forms can be found on the CCWH website: http://theccwh.org/awards.htm. For further information, contact Nupur Chaudhuri, e-mail: nupurc@earthlink.net.