[Histmaj] SIAH 2024: More-than-Human Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of Life

[HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORS]

Dear all,

I hope this finds you all well. This summer I am co-teaching the Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities alongside Annie Dwyer, Rich Watts, and Shelby House. Applications are now open! Please encourage any students who you think might be interested in or benefit from an intensive summer research experience focused on our theme, More-than-Human Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of Life. Below is a description of our theme. You can find more details (including information sessions for students) here<https://www.washington.edu/undergradresearch/summer/siah/2024-siah-theme/> and attached.

Thanks so much,

María Elena



More-than-human Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of Life

SIAH 2024





What becomes possible when we decenter the human in the arts and humanities? The 2024 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities (SIAH) aims to cultivate an appreciation of plants, water, rocks, and the broader more-than-human-world as agentive, animate, and entangled with human lifeworlds. To this end, the 2024 SIAH will introduce frameworks and methods from Indigenous epistemologies, critical animal studies, multispecies ethnography, and the environmental humanities to explore the human and non-human dimensions of racial formations, settler colonialism, extractive capitalism, captivity, war, and other forms of violence. Ultimately, SIAH students will be encouraged to cross disciplinary and species boundaries in crafting imaginative explorations of the expansive and resilient politics and poetics of life.



In the initial weeks, the summer institute teaching team invites students to engage with texts and invited speakers that explore the crisis around conceptions of the human and the toll of human-centeredness, such as climate change and species extinction. With the conceptual tools and frameworks of Indigenous Studies and other critical intellectual traditions, students will explore the more-than-human entanglements at work in multiple forms and genres, like oral narratives, literary fiction and poetry, visual arts, cinema/time-based art, and other forms of storytelling, signifying, and witnessing. The second half of the course allows students to further explore those themes and develop, discuss, and produce in-depth research projects (which can include creative work) with the mentorship of the teaching team. A background in the arts and humanities is not what is most important; rather, it is your interest in joining a respectful, open, and at times difficult conversation about the role of the arts and humanities in reconceptualizing a world that holds many worlds.


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MaríaElena García
Professor, Comparative History of Ideas
Adjunct Faculty in American Indian Studies, Anthropology, Geography, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
University of Washington
B102 Padelford Hall, Box 354300
Seattle, WA 98195-4300
Phone: 206-221-0561
Fax: 206-543-7400
http://chid.washington.edu/people/maria-elena-garcia

Pronouns: ñanay, panay, ella, she, her

The University of Washington sits on the occupied homelands of Coast Salish peoples. My family and I are grateful to live and work as guests on these lands<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.realrentduwamish.org/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!j-AtBWeNCGzRoUH4mv3wsndtBmwK7M6bPwazJSqxcIk0KMuETno5NPkX6n_D_hwgI7oEzIBkGz-Z$>. This land acknowledgment is but one small gesture in the ongoing process of working toward repairing and sustaining relations with Coast Salish lands, waters, peoples and their other-than-human kin.
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