[GEOG MAJORS] Fwd: Fw: UW Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities

[Michael Brown]

Read below about the Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities...

Michael Brown (he/him)
Professor & Interim Chair
Department of Geography
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195


Dear Students



The Office of Undergraduate Research is pleased to announce the call for
applications for the 2024 Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities (SIAH)
<https://www.washington.edu/undergradresearch/summer-institute-home/>! SIAH
offers an opportunity for undergraduates to engage in scholarly research
with accomplished scholars and peers while earning full-time academic
credit. Student participants develop individual, original research ideas
related to an interdisciplinary theme and formally present their work at a
closing symposium.



This year’s theme is *More-than-Human Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of
Life*, developed and taught by Professors María Elena García, Richard
Watts, and Annie Dwyer along with doctoral student Shelby House. Please
read their description of the theme below:



*What becomes possible when we decenter the human in the arts and
humanities? This course aims to cultivate an appreciation of the
more-than-human-world —from plants to animals to water to rock—as agentive,
animate, and inextricably entangled with human lifeworlds. To this end, the
course will introduce frameworks and methods ranging from Indigenous
epistemologies to critical animal studies to multispecies ethnography,
while reckoning with histories and present realities of racial formation,
settler colonialism, extractive industries, captivity, war, and other forms
of violence. Ultimately, students in the course will be encouraged to cross
disciplinary as well as species boundaries in crafting imaginative
responses to the pressing problem of the differential mattering of lives. *



*To learn more about the theme, teaching team, application process and to
sign up for an information session, visit our website
<https://www.washington.edu/undergradresearch/summer-institute-home/>.
Applications are due March 1, 2024.*



We hope that you consider applying for this terrific research and learning
opportunity! If you have any questions, please email us at
undergradresearch at uw.edu.



Best,

Sophie



*Sophie Pierszalowski, PhD (she/her)*
Director, Office of Undergraduate Research

Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity | Undergraduate Academic
Affairs

171 Mary Gates Hall

www.uw.edu/undergradresearch <https://www.washington.edu/undergradresearch/>



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