> 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