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by Phillip Thurtle
This last year challenged CHID unlike any year I’ve ever experienced. Together, we navigated a global pandemic, exacerbated social inequities, an economic slump, and the loss of human contact. Due to the care, hard work, and daily sacrifices of those within the department, CHID has remained the dynamic center for interdisciplinary thought that drew me to the program 20 years ago. In a future “Letter from the Chair,” I will return to talk about the department… Read more
Arriving from the depths of Southern California, Lenan Choto waltzes into the Emerald City as a soft ray of sunshine (or so they’ve been told). With a background in TV & Radio, they wish to use their new media expertise to continue promoting a sense of community within CHID.
Lenan Choto was born and raised in Los Angeles, California (a fact they can’t stop mentioning). In retrospect, growing up in Koreatown near Rampart Village was key to Lenan’s early childhood development, especially… Read more
Introducing our first CHID podcast: Convos in the Office!Every few weeks, Chair of CHID Phillip Thurtle & Outreach Coordinator Lenan Choto discuss various topics leading to philosophical insights, thought revelations and catharsis.
This is an exciting time for CHID and we hope everyone enjoys the future of our content.
Links can be found below:
Spotify
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Time: Tuesday April 23, 3-4:30pm
Place: PDL C-101(CHID Lounge) and Zoom
Could life after UW mean getting paid to lead hikes, learn from nature, or go trekking in the Andes? How might we conceptualize the outdoors as a space for personal and political renewal and liberation? At the same time, how might a career in “outdoor education” — and the very notion of "wilderness" — risk reproducing the logics of settler colonialism in which certain kinds of humans get… Read more
Summer courses to take your mind off April showers (something something May flowers)! It might actually promote well-needed introspection, especially with courses like "The Question of Human Nature" and "Blackness and movement".
Intense and cerebral, no doubt, though thinking critically is a must in these trying times.
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CHID 110A: The Question of Human Nature
CHID 111A: The Literary Legacy of Tupac Shakur
CHID 206A: Violence and Contemporary Thought - Antisemitism, Racism, and Historical… Read more
#WeLoveCHID! Thanks for all the donations everyone! It was one of the more successful Husky Giving Day's for the Comparative History of Ideas in recent memory! We're grateful for your contributions and for believing in our community 🙂
By donating to CHID, you will be assisting in funding CHID scholarships, events and anything else needed to help support our students and operations.
Your gifts to the Friends of CHID Fund helps the Department to:
Support the annual CHIDposium, highlighting our graduating student’s thesis projects
Send students to inspiring study abroad opportunities such as Viet Nam and Ecuador
Bring alumni to campus to share their experience and knowledge with current students and the greater… Read more
#ILoveCHID! #HuskyGivingDay is on April 4th and we're asking our CHID community to support us wherever they can.
When you donate to the Comparative History of Ideas, you are promoting the growth and intellectual pursuits of all our students 💜
This panel explores the value of the humanities for those interested in medical careers. Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) alums Marium Raza (medical student at Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Preetma Kooner (faculty member at UW Medicine) will discuss the importance of their UW humanities education for the journeys to medical school and beyond. Advisors from the Department of Biology (Janet J. Germeraad, Andrea Pardo) and CHID (Cynthia Anderson) will provide students advice on how to move… Read more
Are you thinking about study abroad this year? There's still time to apply to CHID Study Abroad for Early Fall and Autumn programs. Stop by any time between 11:00 AM and 12:45 PM in the HUB basement (between the food court and the bookstore) to chat with Nick Barr, Director of Study Abroad, and Marthadina Russell, CHID Administrator.
Friday, Mar. 8, 2024, 11 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Applications for Early Fall Ecuador and Poland/Romania + Autumn Paris and Prague are due by March 15.