<p><span style="color: black;">We love Brenda, and so does the Mellon Workshop! <br>Check it out:<br></span></p><p><span style="color: black;"><br></span></p><p><span style="color: black;">Brenda Varda's Mellon
Workshop grant was approved this week - </span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Convergence of Cultures: Scientific Realms and Creative Production - </span></i><span style="color: black;">and we welcome additional participants in this year-long
research and composition exercise that crosses the campus divides, looking at
creative opportunities that investigate the borderlands between science and the
arts</span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i><span style="color: black;"> (Much thanks to Rickerby Hinds for comments and
helping to get this through!)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;">BV: <i>" Creative Writing
students in all genres are welcome and encouraged to attend and participate
since this is a project that could coincide with your seminar work in some
way. We're especially interested in presentations, proposals, and
creative work (whether poems, plays, CNF, or fiction --- or performance art,
dance, or music) that can come about by the end of the year as a result of this
investigation."</i> Please email for more info
(</span><span class="HcCDpe"><span class="lDACoc"><a href="mailto:bvarda@yahoo.com">bvarda@yahoo.com</a>)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;">Faculty members include Rickerby, Tom
Lutz, Renee Coloumbe, Derek Burill, Linda Walling, Haibo Yu and graduate
students thus far include Anna Gamboa, Hannah Schwartz, Gene Kafka, and BV. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;">Participants both grad and
faculty meet once a month for lunch/discussion, and there were also be
a lecture series. Speakers tentatively include Carl Djerassi (Stanford: playwright,
novelist and one of the creators of 'the pill') and Antonio Damasio
(USC's Brain and Creativity research institute.) Others might
include Sue Ellen Case, K.C. Cole and practical 'scientist-artists'
such as Larry Bridges and David Knight. We're open to suggestion!</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="color: black;">The Groups that were funded this
year</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">-J. Tobias et
al., Affect, Technicity, Ethics III: Play, Period</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">-J. Childers et
al., The Global 19th Century<br>
-J. Ganim et al., Medieval Culture and Postmodern Legacies</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">-</span><span style="color: black;">R. Hinds, B. Varda, et al., Convergence of Cultures:
Scientific Realms and Creative Production</span></p>
<p>-<span style="color: black;">T. Yamamoto et al.,
Asian/American Literary and Cultural Studies in the 21st Century</span></p>
<p> </p>