2009-10 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)
Cyrus Mody, Assistant Professor of History (MS 42)
cyrus.mody@rice.edu
Early Modern Reading Group (EMRG)
Meredith Skura, the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English (MS 30)
skura@rice.edu
www.ruf.rice.edu/~skura/
Global Hispanism Workshop (GHW)
Luis Duno-Gottberg, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies (MS 34)
luis.duno-gottberg@rice.edu
History of Philosophy Workshop (HPW)
Christian Emden, Associate Professor of German Studies (MS 32)
emden@rice.edu
Mind and Perception Workshop (M&P)
Casey O'Callaghan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (MS 14)
casey.ocallaghan@rice.edu
Poetry and Poetics Workshop (P&P)
Joseph Campana, Assistant Professor of English (MS 30)
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.
Workshop coordinators are members of an Owlspace Worksite HRC WKS Coord, which contains resources such as a Coordinators' Manual, state sales tax exemption form, and Media Release Form.
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).
Timeline
- May 9, 2009 - Coordinators to provide as much information as possible about next year's planned programs and visitors
- June 20, 2009 - Information on next year's programs provided by this date will be included in the HRC Newsletter
- September 21, 2009 - Deadline: Fall 2009 proposals for workshop mini-grants
- February 22, 2010 - Deadline: Spring 20009 proposals for workshop mini-grants, workshop proposals, and workshop renewals
- April 9, 2010 - Deadline: Year-end report for 2009-10 workshops. Submitting an end-of-year report is a condition for the renewal of a workshop
