| When | Monday, Oct 16, 2017, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
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| Campus room | Research Commons, Room Green A |
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| Event Types | Information Sessions, Lectures/Seminars |
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| Event sponsors | UW Libraries
Simpson Center for the Humanities |
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| | | Description | Join us for short talks by this year's Simpson Center Summer Fellows and learn about graduate student and faculty funding opportunities available through the Simpson Center. Project presented will include:
- Feminist Politics of belonging: Participatory Culture and Youth Digital Video Production, Negin Dahya (Information School)
- Monumental Ephemeral: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art, Sasha Welland (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
- Digital Trace of Iraq's Cultural and Political History, Michael Degerald (Interdisciplinary Near & Middle East Studies)
- Mapping Northlake: Seattle's Hinterlands in Global Perspective, Roneva Keel (History) and Eleanor Mahoney (History)
- The Original Seattle Gayborhood: A Public Historical Walking Tour of Seattle's Lesbian & Gay Past, Julian Barr (Geography)
Julian Barr is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Washington Seattle. He has a BA in history and a MS in geography both from the St. Louis area. He is interested in queer-feminist geography, qualitative methodology, and cultural geography with a focus on place studies and popular culture. His research is focused on the historical geography of lesbian and queer women in Seattle with a focus on place/community development. His secondary research interests include researching issues of representation of identity and place in popular culture. He and a co-author were recently published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television.
- See Shanties: Carto-visual Narrative in Public Science, Lauren Drakopulos (Geography)
Lauren is a doctoral candidate in Geography at the University of Washington. Broadly Lauren is interested in the politics of science in the context of environmental management. Her research examines the co-production of science and regulation in the West Coast commercial fisheries, and the social and political impacts of new scientific and monitoring technologies on commercial fisherman. Lauren also works at the nexus of digital humanities and science communications to understand how conservation discourse is produced and circulated on the web through social media and emerging practices of geospatial digital storytelling and carto-visual narrative.Join us for presentations and time for brief discussion! |
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| Link | www.lib.washington.edu… |
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