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Faculty Fellows Seminar

Faculty Fellows Seminar 2022-24: Digital Futures and Social Justice

Read more about the 2022-2024 class of Faculty Fellows and their projects HERE 

In September 2022, the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin launched a two-year inquiry centered on [Digital Futures and Social Justice] in and through the humanities, with “digital,” “humanities,” and “futures” understood broadly.

Initiative for Digital Humanities (IDH) at the Humanities Institute that will facilitate scholarship on the intersection of humanities disciplines and digital technologies. Our interdisciplinary Faculty Fellows will pursue projects that apply digital technologies and computational methods to solve questions in the humanities and subject digital technologies and infrastructures to humanistic analysis, critique, and contextualization. IDH's role as a partner with the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium will catalyze the exploration of racial and ethnic entanglements with technology in the past, present, and future.

The Humanities Institute Faculty Seminar meets weekly, one semester of each academic year, to explore a biennially selected issue or theme that lends itself to inquiry across a broad disciplinary spectrum and promotes intellectual collaboration and collegiality across college and departmental lines; the seminar is open to faculty by application. 

Successful faculty applicants are appointed as Humanities Institute Fellows and receive a one-course teaching load reduction for the semester of their appointment. Each faculty fellow typically leads one seminar session on work or interests related to the theme. Many Faculty Fellows take the opportunity to work on a large project or book during the semester of the seminar.

Each group of Fellows invites four or five distinguished visitors whose work has been formative for the issues under discussion to guest-lead seminar sessions and deliver public lectures in the Institute's Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series.