Conceived as collaborative incubators for work-in-progress, faculty research seminars bring together mixed disciplinary groups across the humanities and social sciences to explore timely issues. Humanities faculty members select the topics to explore, and the DHI provides the place and resources for the work to be done. The seminar participants meet for a single quarter each year to think in community, challenge each other, and generate new insights into individual research trajectories.
- Winter 2010: “California Convergences: People, Places, Products”
- Spring 2010: “Health, Medicine and Culture in a Globalizing World”
- Past Participants
- Proposal Process
Call for General Topic Proposals, 2010-2011
Deadline: 5:00 pm, Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The UC Davis Humanities Institute invites general TOPIC proposals for next year’s faculty research seminar. In this first phase of the proposal process, faculty members are invited to convene a research seminar around a broad topic of interdisciplinary inquiry.
Seminar participants will meet for a single quarter to think in community, challenge each other, and generate new insights into individual research trajectories. The goal of research seminars is to bring together scholars from diverse backgrounds and methodologies around a single topic to encourage innovative, challenging ways of thinking. Thus, the proposed topics should engage scholars from a range of fields and disciplines. For a list of previous topics, visit the Past Participants website.
The DHI Advisory Board will select one topic and its convener from the proposals submitted. The topic will be announced and a call for individual proposals issued in early December.
[NOTE: The DHI will also fund a research seminar on California Cultures for 2010-11; the call for individual proposals for that research seminar will be announced in early December, along with the call for individual proposals for the general topic selected by the DHI Board.]
General topic proposals should include the following:
· Proposed title of the group
· Brief description of the sorts of questions this group might ask collectively and the interest and relevance of those questions to researchers across and between different disciplines
· Preferred quarter of participation (please rank in order of preference)
· 2-3 page CV
Compensation for the 2010-11 research seminar will be $6,000 in 19911 funds, which may be used for research support or, in consultation with your department chair, may be put toward course release. For details on this funding policy, please review the Proposal Process website.
Please submit all materials via email to DHI Associate Director Jennifer Langdon at jlangdon@ucdavis.edu. The deadline for proposals is Wednesday, November 18 at 5:00 pm. Late applications cannot be considered.
IMPORTANT: In order for us to effectively track submissions, applicants should put the following in the subject line of the email: FRS Topic Proposal.