Two ICR Graduate Students Awarded IPRH Fellowship

January, 2007
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Jin-kyung Park and Victor Pickard have been awarded Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowships for the 2007-08 academic year. IPRH Fellows will be in residence at UIUC for the year of the award, participating in a yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows Seminar and an annual conference in spring 2008.

The IPRH theme for 07-08 will be "Ruptures." According to the group:

The question of rupture is central to any humanistic inquiry. Particularly in the wake of the historicist turn, it is foundational to the very formation of the object of study; to understand any product of the human intellect presupposes fixing it in a temporal order. Periodicity, depending as it does on the concept of rupture, organizes contemporary scholarship in the humanities.

The theme of "Rupture" invites critical reflection on such dynamics not only the question of periodization across disciplines and eras, but also how we define the eras that bound our own work in the humanities. The IPRH encourages applications from all sectors of the university with an interest in interdisciplinary and humanities-inflected research.

Congrats Victor and Jin!