> Robert Penn Warren Center for the
> Humanities]<http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/index.html>
>  [image: Visiting Fellowship Program]2010-2011 William S. Vaughn Visiting
> Fellowship "Representation and Social Change"
>
> The Warren Center will host a year-long interdisciplinary faculty
seminar to
> explore the complex and multidirectional relationship between
representation
> and social change.  In our current globalized and mediated culture,
> experiences of social change are commonly communicated through a variety
of
> representational means, and the reach and influence of mass communication
> increases the possibility that representations can be used to create
social
> change as well as to reflect it.  Yet today's conditions are not
> unique-historical examples abound of instances in which representations of
> circumstances and events, once disseminated, have both communicated and
> facilitated social change.
>
> The seminar will include participants who study a broad range of
> representation, including verbal, visual, and other material means.  These
> categories could stretch from literature to music to images, both moving
and
> still (including technological representations such as magnetic resonance
> imaging, sonograms, etc., as well as digital media), and also to material
> culture (sculpture, pottery, grave goods, and the like).  "Social
change" is
> likewise understood broadly. It may manifest in activism, policy, or
> politics, but it also operates at the level of identity, lifestyle, and
> culture.  While emphasizing participants' concrete research projects that
> focus on the relationship between representation and social change, the
> seminar also will encourage interrogations of the meaning and nature of
> representation and of social change as contested concepts in and of
> themselves.
>
> We invite applications from scholars in all disciplines whose lively
> presence will help to focus our work and stimulate discussions.  We
> anticipate that the successful applicant will have completed the terminal
> degree in her/his field and will have a record of scholarly publication.
> The seminar meets weekly and will allow the visiting fellow ample time to
> pursue a major research project.  The combined interests of the visiting
> fellow and the Vanderbilt faculty fellows will determine the form and
> content of seminar discussions.
>
> The visiting fellow is provided with a spacious office within the Center's
> own building. The fellowship pays a stipend of up to $45,000 and provides
> $2,000 in moving expenses.
>
> Application materials available
> here.<http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/VF_info.htm>
>
> For more detailed information please contact:
>
> Mona Frederick, Executive Director
> Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
> VU Station B #351534, Nashville, TN 37235-1534
> (615) 343-6060