Starting in 2016, the Sawyer Seminar will create a temporary research center for cross-disciplinary, intensive study of how war is represented.
The UC Irvine School of Humanities has received a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to produce “Documenting War,” a year-long “Sawyer Seminar” that will explore the genres, rhetoric, and real effects of wartime documentation and postwar reflection, as carried out by journalists, soldiers, civilians, and artists in verbal, visual and mixed media forms. The seminar will begin in fall 2016 and will be led by project co-directors Carol Burke, professor of English, and Cecile Whiting, Chancellor's Professor of art history. UCI is one of 11 universities to receive this prestigious grant in 2015.
The Mellon Foundation established Sawyer Seminars grants in 1994 to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The grant will support a series of open lectures and workshops during the academic year, a post-doctoral position, and two graduate student pre-doctoral fellowships.
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The UC Irvine School of Humanities has received a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to produce “Documenting War,” a year-long “Sawyer Seminar” that will explore the genres, rhetoric, and real effects of wartime documentation and postwar reflection, as carried out by journalists, soldiers, civilians, and artists in verbal, visual and mixed media forms. The seminar will begin in fall 2016 and will be led by project co-directors Carol Burke, professor of English, and Cecile Whiting, Chancellor's Professor of art history. UCI is one of 11 universities to receive this prestigious grant in 2015.
The Mellon Foundation established Sawyer Seminars grants in 1994 to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The grant will support a series of open lectures and workshops during the academic year, a post-doctoral position, and two graduate student pre-doctoral fellowships.
To read the full press release, please click here.