The deadline has been extended for applications for the 2023 Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities (SIAH). The application will be open on a rolling basis until all positions are filled (with a new priority deadline of April 2, 11:59 PM). Students do not need to submit a formal letter of recommendation in order to apply and do not need to be an expert in topics related to this year's theme to be competitive (interest and motivation speak louder than prior experience)!
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 A Black Sense: Time, Art, and Being, developed and taught by Professors Bianca Dang, Habiba Ibrahim, and Jasmine Mahmoud, and PhD student Chari Glogovac-Smith. Please read their description of the theme, below:
Students will interrogate “sense,” which includes feeling as a way of knowing, perception, sensorium (across sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell), embodiment, and movement. “Sense” is the route to capacious registers of understanding in Black historiographies, art and aesthetics, critical theory, and futures. Using “sense” as a throughline, this course will explore Black studies across freedom and liberation movements (including abolition), visuality, music, the literary imagination, feminist and queer theater and performance practices, protest, and geographies.
To learn more about the theme, teaching team, application process and to sign up for an information session, visit our website.
We hope that you consider applying for this terrific research and learning opportunity! If you have any questions, please email us at urp@uw.edu.