Rereading embodiment through the material voice, the research group seeks to intervene in current critiques of the construction and perpetuation of identities and differences. We also aim to contribute to the development of perspectives and vocabularies on the epistemologies and ideologies of voice that can aid in cross-disciplinary understanding and research. We wish to convene a group of scholars who understand the voice as a conjuncture of corporeality and technology, a sounding of power and a strategy of control. The research group ultimately seeks to intercede in vocal politics by working toward new analytical frameworks for taking account of the ways in which voices co-implicate and destabilize the categories of nature, culture and society. By engaging in an interdisciplinary critique of the videocentrism of Western thinking, and in a consideration of the voice on its own aural and multi-sensory terms, the research project will ideally contribute to a subtle but significant shift in the paradigms of knowledge production within the humanities.
Application Guidelines Deadline: January 3, 2011.
Who Can Apply: UC Faculty, Post-Docs, Graduate Students and non-UC faculty.
Level of Award: Replacement for faculty and stipend for non-faculty.
Funding Source: UCHRI
Residential Research Groups
Residential research groups (RRGs) are at the heart of UCHRI's activities, convening key scholars to work in collaboration on interdisciplinary topics of special significance.UCHRI promotes new scholarship in the humanities by fostering collaborativeinquiry outside institutional and disciplinary structures. RRGs are in essence teams of researchers, often unknown to each other before residency, andassembled to work on a commonly defined research agenda. They are composed of arange of UC faculty, visiting scholars (including UC postdoctoral scholars), UC doctoral students, and non-UC faculty as resources allow.
RRGs are developed through a two-stage process. First, research topics for RRGs are determined by open competition or by UCHRI in consultation with its Advisory Board and UC leaders in the humanities. Through a competitive review process, RRG fellows are then selected based on their ability to contribute to the research agenda of the group. Collaboration may take many forms. In communicating across disciplines, there are challenges of language, terminology, and methodology for all RRGs. The organizing premise of the residential research program is that when those challenges are surmounted, breakthroughs in knowledge are possible.
Expected outcomes of an RRG include edited or co-edited volumes, key word texts, multimedia websites, significant extramural proposals, substantial curriculum plans, or other such significant projects arising from research pursued at UCHRI.
UCHRI's facilities forparticipating scholars include private offices with e-mail/Internet access, seminar and conference rooms, a multi-media room, and a reference library. Furnished apartments are provided free of charge to fellows by the Institute for use on an as-needed basis during their residencies, resources permitting.
Awards will be announced no later than March 2011.
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