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Obermann Center for Advanced Studies 111 Church St. The Obermann Center’s Mission. Advance disciplinary excellence I nspire cross-disciplinary collaboration Promote publicly engaged research Network artists, scholars, and researchers locally, nationally, and internationally
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Obermann Center for Advanced Studies 111 Church St.
The Obermann Center’s Mission Advance disciplinary excellence Inspire cross-disciplinary collaboration Promote publicly engaged research Network artists, scholars, and researchers locally, nationally, and internationally Broadcast UI successes
Fellows-in-Residence Program:Support for Individual Artists, Researchers, and Scholars
Beyond Disciplines Programs to Support Collaborative Projects
Summer Interdisciplinary Research Grants • Music/Nursing professor on pain management • Chemist/Engineer on catalyst to clean waterways • Psychologist/Communication Researcher on gesture • The Summer Research Seminar • 2011 Ed Folsom: Walt Whitman International • 2012 John Spencer: Minds at Play-Researchers and Museums • The Bi-annual Cmiel Research Semester • 2012 Tim Havens: Post-Civil Rights African American Culture • The Annual Humanities Symposium • 2011 Comics, Creativity, and Culture • Corey Creekmur, Ana Merino, Rachel Williams • 2012 Latino Culture in the Midwest • Claire Fox, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, Omar Valerio-Jiménez
Faculty Working Groups • 18th-19th-Century Interdisciplinary Group • Living With the Earth • Scholarship of Public Engagement • Comparative and Ethnic Studies • Reading Asia Through Contemporary Philosophy • Intergenre Explorations—Scholarship/Creative Work • Literature and Film Theory Group • Autism Research Group • Aging Mind and Brain Initiative • Circulating Cultures • Understanding Late Life Across the Disciplines
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