Yale Mellon Sawyer Seminar: March Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
We hope this email finds you well in these difficult times. We write to update you on upcoming events and opportunities associated with "The Order of Multitudes."
In the course of the last four weeks, we have added to our website four interviews with exciting young scholars of big data and its history. Click here to read Denise Y. Ho's take on Chinese museum culture during Maoism; here, Nana Osei Quarshie talks about the history of West African psychiatry and its unconventional archives; here, Catarina Madruga discusses the uncomfortable history of Portuguese zoological collections; and, finally, here you can read about Yi Lu's research on discarded and forgotten archives in China.
We are also proud to announce that Scrolls and Leaves, the acclaimed podcast on "history from the margins," is working on five podcast episodes that are co-sponsored by our Sawyer Seminar and Bangalore's National Center for Biological Sciences, and which are co-created with the help of three Yale undergraduate interns: Iman Iftikar, Sasha Semina, and Alexa Stanger. Follow our website and newsletter as these episodes become available in the next few weeks.
Please also stay tuned for further news on graduate and undergraduate student research by Colton Valentine (English), Matthew Dudley (History) and Henry Jacob (History and Spanish, Saybrook '21), whose projects we were delighted to fund as part of our Sawyer Seminar seed grant program. Colton, Matthew, and Henry will all share updates on their work on our website over the summer.
Meanwhile, another round of seed grant applications is coming up soon. The announcement will shortly be circulated to our subscribers as well as to Yale's general mailing lists; applications from graduate as well as undergraduate students from all fields are welcome. The maximum award is $3,000 for graduate students and $1,000 for undergraduates.
Finally: we are looking for new graduate student fellows to join our project over the summer and/or for the upcoming academic year. Please send a brief statement of interest to Travis Zadeh at travis.zadeh@yale.edu. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, and all fields and specializations are welcome. Please feel free to forward this announcement widely; we will be recirculating it as well.
All the best,
Marta Figlerowicz