Paris, France

The H+U+D Initiative’s first city seminar courses departed Philadelphia for explorations abroad during Penn’s spring break. In an effort to integrate the humanities and design disciplines around the study of cities, H+U+D sponsored two international courses. Each seminar is co-taught by two faculty, one  from the humanities and one from design. This semester H+U+D’s Co-Director Dr. Eugenie Birch, City and Regional Planning, and H+U+D colloquium participant, Dr. Andrea Goulet, Romance Languages, ventured with students to Paris to study the connections between city planning and French literature. Dr. Daniel Barber, Architecture, also a H+U+D colloquium participant teamed up with Dr. John Tresch, History and Sociology of Science, traveled with their students to Rio de Janeiro to study topics related to cosmopolitanism in the 21st century.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Applications are now invited for two one-year Junior Fellowships to be held in 2015-2016. One fellow will be selected from the humanities and one from design disciplines. Each will be hosted at Penn by a department in the other discipline. Mellon Junior Fellows will be selected on the basis of their ability to contribute, through research and teaching, to the mission of the initiative. During their nine months in residence, they will have the opportunity to pursue their own research. They will participate in the bi-weekly Colloquium, presenting their research at one of those sessions, and they will also participate fully in the academic life of their host departments. In the spring semester they will teach an undergraduate seminar, which may be co-taught by the two fellows. The deadline to submit applications is January 15, 2015.PennHUD Junior Fellow description  Junior Fellow application cover sheet