RCUCH Courses & Seminars 2009-10

RCUCH Sponsored Courses

  • Spring 2010: English/History 638: Politics and Literary Culture in London. Co-taught by Cheryl Nixon (English) and Malcolm Smuts (History).

Fall 2009 Faculty Seminar Meetings

These seminars are monthly presentations of works-in-progress by UMB faculty members. They are open to UMB faculty and graduate students, and Boston-area scholars and faculty.

All meetings will be in W-6-47 (the English Dept. Lounge, several doors past the English Dept. Office) or in W-6-94 (this is the large seminar room (turn left out of the elevators and left after the double glass doors).

Talk titles and pre-circulated readings will be available for pdf download here and sent by email upon request 1-2 weeks prior to each meeting. If you would like to attend and are not on the listserv, you can request readings by emailing elizabeth.fay@umb.edu

Faculty Study Group

  • Grants/Fellowships Workshopping Session: Malcolm Smuts (History), Nancy Stieber (Art), Rajini Srikanth (English, Honors Program), Patrick Barron (English)
    Monday, October 26th, 2:00-3:30pm.
  • Professor Stephen Sutherland, UMB English
    March 8th, 2:00-3:00pm.

Fall 2009 Atlantic Studies Seminar Series

These seminars are a five-part series, culminating in a "Atlantic Cities" conference in Fall 2010.

  • Professor Woodruff Smith, UMB History, will present a discussion paper titled "Atlantic Sities: Locating a Topical Field at the Intersecton of Atlantic History and Urban History"
    Monday, October 19th, 2:30-3:45pm. M-4-624 (History Dept. Conference Room)
  • Professor Woodruff Smith, UMB History, will present a discussion paper titled "Atlantic Sities: Locating a Topical Field at the Intersecton of Atlantic History and Urban History"
    Tuesday, December 1st, 2:30-3:45pm. M-4-624 (History Dept. Conference Room)

The Flaherty Award of the RCUCH

The Research Center for Urban Cultural History (RCUCH) invites students engaged in the study of cities, urban cultures, urban spaces, urban populations and urban representations to submit their project for The Flaherty Award. The prize will be awarded to the best undergraduate work in one of the above topics completed during the current academic year. The prize amount is $500. Deadline for submission of the project: TBA.

The prize is described in detail in the submission Guidelines, available in pdf and Word

Interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary approaches will be given preference. Projects may take the form of academic research or engage an urban community in a variety of ways. Projects might be realized as essays, websites, performances, art work, creative writing, reports of community activism, or exhibitions. They might be produced for a class, as a thesis project, for the public, for a specific community, independent studies, or in conjunction with community participation. Projects will be reviewed by an RCUCH prize committee. The RCUCH encourages all students engaged in urban cultural history work to consider submitting their work, and the RCUCH asks all faculty overseeing such projects to encourage their students to submit their projects for consideration. 

Guidelines for submissions: Contact uch@umb.edu for the cover sheet or download cover sheet in pdf or Word to accompany your submission; Submissions should be dropped off or sent to: RCUCH, Wheatley Building, 6 th fl, rm. 45 (emailed submissions can be sent to uch@umb.edu).

Essays: not to exceed 25 pages sent to RCUCH office along with cover sheet; emailed essays and cover sheets will also be accepted; Performance: video or video file of 45 minutes max., to be sent to the RCUCH office along with cover sheet; Reports: not to exceed 25 pages sent to RCUCH office along with cover sheet; emailed reports and cover sheets will also be accepted; Art work, creative writing or exhibition: send cover sheet and a copy of creative writing piece or original art work to RCUCH office, or where relevant, provide details on the cover sheet on how and where judges may view the art work/exhibition; Website: send cover sheet to RCUCH office with the url of the project website.