The FHI is pleased to announce that our 2009-10 Annual Seminar, Innovating Forms, will be co-convened by Profs. miriam cooke (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) and Fred Moten (English). Please follow links to application information for Duke Faculty Fellowships, Duke Graduate Fellowships, and external Postdoctoral Fellowships. For more information, please contact FHI Assistant Director Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu or 919.668.1902. The seminar will explore the role of form in the production of knowledge. What happens when knowledge takes form? Is thinking liberated, or constrained, or is the emergence of form, the process of informing (or en-forming) best understood as an interplay of flight and seizure, where taking form is inextricably bound with breaking (away from) form? In taking up the ontology of form, the seminar will also take up the history of form. It will consider the place or force of change in form as well as changing conceptions of form in the history of thought. Innovating Forms will explore a series of interrelated questions around the meanings and articulations of innovation, the forms of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledges, the theoretical possibilities of everyday “informal” practice and organization. Click here to see a complete description of the seminar project.