The Vice President for Research Office has announced the Research Excellence Fund Awards. Among the grantees is the Humanities Department’s Dr. Marika Seigel, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication, who was awarded a Scholarship and Creativity grant.
See this article for the full list of awards.
On Friday, May 1, the MTU Board of Control awarded promotions to two members of the Humanities department.
Congratulations!
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) has co-edited a special issue of the journal Neuroethics (April 2015) on “Concussion and mTBI” (co-edited by Frederic Gilbert, University of Tasmania, and Brad Partridge, University of Queensland).
On April 11-13, a team of nine Michigan Tech students participated in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Sustainable Design Expo as a part of the P3 program for People, Prosperity and Planet in Washington DC. The team won the AIChE Youth Council on Sustainable Science and Technology P3 Award. This award was given to one of 40 teams by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Institute for Sustainability and SustainUS, a nonprofit organization of young people advancing sustainable development and youth empowerment in the United States. The award recognizes the team that has the most interdisciplinary and community engaged project that will have a significant impact on reducing resource use locally, regionally, nationally or globally and that can benefit youth.
The team also earned an Honorable Mention P3 Award from the EPA.
The team includes the following students and was mentored by Jay Meldrum (director of the Keweenaw Research Center) and Richelle Winkler (assistant professor in social sciences):
(This article originally appeared in Tech Today. Writer: Allison Mills)
The Modern Language program in the humanities will be screening the 3rd and last movie of its film series this year on the theme Alternate Realities. The German Doctor will screen tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Walker 134, after a brief introduction. The event is open to the whole campus and the community. The film has English subtitles. Popcorn will be served as well.
STC major Brandon Martinez has been selected as the 2015 Humanities Departmental Scholar. He will be recognized, along with the other departmental scholars, at the 21st Annual Student Leadership Awards, to be held on Friday April 17, 2015 at 6:00 pm in the Memorial Union Ballroom.
Congratulations, Brandon!
The Humanities Department’s Rhetoric, Theory and Culture 2014-15 Colloquium Series is pleased to welcome Gareth Williams, Professor of Spanish and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Williams’ talk is entitled “2666, or The Novel of Force.” It will take place on Friday, April 3rd, at 5 pm, in Forestry G002 (refreshments will be available). All are welcome!
Here is the abstract for Professor Williams’ talk:
Upon the Nazi invasion of France in 1940, Simone Weil penned one of her most renowned essays dealing with the relation between force and the foundation of the city, titled “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force”. Roberto Bolaño’s 2004 novel 2666 is a fictionalized attempt to approach the murder of hundreds of working class women in and around the city of Santa Teresa (Ciudad Juárez) in the deserts of northern Mexico from the 1990s to the present. The novel also offers a sustained reflection on the double originality of the political, that is, the constitutive relation between reason and force. At the heart of the novel’s aesthetic is the questioning of the relation between war as the register and experience of the everyday and the contemporary grasped as (im)possible metaphorization, which in turn raises the question of what is possible in literature, in life, in the face of death.
Professor Williams is the author of The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America (2002), The Mexican Exception: Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy (2011), and numerous articles examining the relation between cultural history, literature, and political philosophy. He is one of today’s key thinkers about Latin American politics and culture.
For more information, please contact Marcelino Viero-Ramos.
Photo credit: Shaul Schwarz for The New York Times
Dana Van Kooy, Assistant Professor of Transnational Literature, has received an appointment as a Huntington Library Mayers Fellow along with a grant to support her archival research this summer. The Huntington Library is one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States. The Huntington is known for its extraordinary collection of rare books and manuscripts in the fields of British and American history and literature.