Download call for new workshop development mini-grants. The HRC grants funding to help faculty generate new workshop proposals. Complete workshop proposals (for workshops begining academic year 2009-2010) will be accepted in the spring funding cycle. External Faculty Fellowships are awarded to applicants who propose to contribute to HRC workshops.
2008-2009 Workshops and Study Groups
African Studies Workshop (ASW)
Kerry Ward, Associate Professor of History (MS42)
kward@rice.edu
Americas Colloquium
Alexander X. Byrd, Associate Professor of History (MS-42)
axb@rice.edu
Cultural Studies of Science and Technology (CSST)
Amy Ninetto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (MS-20)
aninetto@rice.edu
Early Modern Reading Group (EMRG)
Meredith Skura, Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English (MS30)
skura@rice.edu
www.ruf.rice.edu/~skura/
Global Hispanism Workshop (GHW)
Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan, Lee Hage Jamail Professor of Latin American Studies (MS34)
beatriz@rice.edu
History of Philosophy Workshop (HPW)
Steven G. Crowell, Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor in Humanities, Professor in Humanities (MS14)
crowell@rice.edu
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~crowell
HPW Owlspace Project Site
Judaic Studies Workshop (JSW)
Gregory Kaplan, Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies (MS15)
gkaplan@rice.edu
www.ruf.rice.edu/~gkaplan
Medieval Studies Workshop (MSW)
Eva Haverkamp, Anna Smith Fine Associate Professor of History (MS42)
haver@rice.edu
Poetry and Poetics Workshop (P&P)
Joseph Campana, Assistant Professor of English (MS30)
joseph.a.campana@rice.edu
ABOUT
Faculty Workshops and Study Groups foster collegiality among faculty and collaboration across institutional and disciplinary boundaries among the Schools of Humanities, Social Sciences and Architecture, and the Shepherd School of Music, and universities within Houston and beyond. They bring together faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to present current research as well as to explore a theme of common intellectual concern.
The workshops are devised by their members, who are motivated to generate new areas of research amidst shifting disciplinary boundaries, and to encourage graduate studies in emerging scholarly problems.
Frequently, these research units serve as incubators for curricular innovation and institutional infrastructure. In addition, they may convene conferences and lectures for nationally and internationally known academic speakers.
The HRC allocates intellectual resources to the workshops on a competitive basis in the form of external faculty fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships. Applicants to these fellowships will identify a workshop to which they are prepared to contribute. The fellows will be selected by the HRC in consultation with workshop leaders to determine fields of research that would further the workshop's aims. They will be expected to present their work to workshop participants and assist in workshop programming.
Coordinator Resources
The HRC is responsible for the financial and administrative oversight of the Workshops and Study Groups. The center designs its policies and guidelines to ensure the workshops' intellectual success, their participation in President Leebron's Vision for the Second Century, as well as compliance with university regulations.
Download 2008-09 Coordinators' Manual
Texas Tax Exemption Certification
Visitor Information Form
The coordinator's manual contains instructions on the Visitor Information Form. Please complete the form as soon as a visiting speaker has accepted an invitation, preferably at the start of the semester, but no later than three weeks prior to an event (or five weeks for international visitors).
Year-end Reporting for 2007-2008
DEADLINE: April 11, 2008
Coordinators of workshops and study groups will submit an annual report, separate from a renewal request. The annual report should include a concise narrative sketch of the group's activities for the year, identifying all visiting speakers, the topics discussed, meetings held, issues debated, works read, and any other information as appropriate. Submitting an end-of-year report is a condition for the renewal of a workshop.
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