Center for Disciplinary Innovation Seminar Proposals

To: Interested faculty in the Humanities and related fields

Fr: James Chandler, Director, Center for Disciplinary Innovation
 
Re: Annual Call for CDI Seminar Proposals
      
The CDI invites proposals for courses from University of Chicago faculty for the 2013-14 academic year. With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CDI offers six team-taught courses each year at the graduate level with participating faculty from different disciplines. Each faculty member teaching in the CDI receives full credit for team-teaching. Additionally, the Mellon grant makes possible a $1500 stipend for each team to share for course-related purposes. For a comprehensive roster of our CDI course offerings and for background information on our consortium for disciplinary innovation with Berkeley, Cambridge, and Columbia, please see: http://franke.uchicago.edu/cdi.html.
 
Faculty proposals should include a description of the seminar and its goals, along with a provisional syllabus. Please indicate the quarter in which it is to be offered; flexibility as to the quarter may help the success of an application. Faculty proposing a course will need to present a rationale for the course framed not only in respect to its substantive issues, but also in respect to the disciplinary contexts. In keeping with our renewal arrangement with the Mellon Foundation, some preference will be given to course proposals that address the theme “Disciplines and Technologies.”
 
One faculty member from each proposed team must have affiliation with the Humanities Division. We are soliciting proposals not only for internal collaboration, but also for collaboration from outside the University (i.e. for team-teaching with a colleague from another University). If you are proposing a course that will involve a colleague from another University, please provide a CV and contact information for the colleague so that he or she may be considered as a CDI visiting scholar candidate. The CDI will support the visitor’s teaching residence with stipend and housing / transportation expenses.
 
The Governing Board at the Franke Institute will select the CDI courses on the basis of breadth, originality, and intellectual promise. Next year’s roster of courses will be announced at the end of the Autumn 2012 quarter. Please email proposals to Mai Vukcevich, Assistant Director to the CDI, at mav@uchicago.edu. Proposals must be received no later than Friday, November 16.
 
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CDI Proposal Cover Sheet

 
I. Faculty Partnership (two co-instructors)  (Please attach short CV’s)
Name, Department
Name, Department
 
II a. Provisional Course Title
 
II b. Provisional quarter in which course will be taught
(Please indicate order of preferred quarter (1, 2, and 3)
 
____ Autumn 2013                             _____Winter 2014                  _____ Spring 2014
 
II c. Departmental sign-off
Please confirm that you have informed your departmental chairs of your application to teach in the CDI.
 
 
III. Course Proposal (1-2 pages)