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Summer Fellowships Available!
- 2021 Dean’s Graduate Summer Fellowship Awards
- Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowships
- UC Humanities Consortium Graduate Fellowship
Deadline to apply is this Friday, April 23, 2021. Full details, including eligibility and application requirements, are available here.
Photo courtesy of Bilal Karim, Unsplash
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abolition x communism
This Friday, April 23, at 12:00 PM, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Silvia Federici, Joy James, Kathi Weeks, and Charmaine Chua discuss what abolitionist and communist frameworks have to offer for addressing ongoing police violence, the expansion of the carceral state, and capitalist collapse. The event is co-sponsored by The Sawyer Seminar in Contemporary Political Struggle and the DHI.
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PhD Unlimited: Podcasting the Humanities
UC Davis graduate students Cinthya Ammerman (Native American Studies), Beshara Kehdi (Cultural Studies), and Ashley Teodorson-Taggart (Performance Studies) will host a workshop on the basics of podcast next Tuesday, April 27 at 12:00 PM. They will be sharing their experiences as participants in the National Humanities Council's Podcasting the Humanities Workshop.
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Another Successful UC Davis Give Day... Thanks to You!
Thank you for your generous and thoughtful donations to the UC Davis Humanities Institute Graduate Public Scholars program. Through your gifts, you directly support students within the GPS program to help them achieve their goals. Your contributions have an immediate impact on community-led projects, graduate support, ongoing partnerships, and new DHI community collaborations.
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Congratulating our UC Davis NEH Award Winners
The DHI congratulates Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies Gerardo Con Diaz, Professor of German and Cinema & Digital Media Jaimey Fisher, and Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior David Furlow for winning 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities grants.
To read more about their projects click on the link below.
Image courtesy of NEH.
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This Spring, HATCH Unhatches with Reading Group and Speaker Series
HATCH, the Mellon Research Initiative in Feminist Arts & Sciences, returns this spring with a reading group and speaker series aimed at creating spaces that "unhatch" certain science making practices and notions of capitalist productivity.
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This Week in the Humanities
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Saidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery
The UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute is honored to welcome Saidiya Hartman for a free, live, online conversation about her relationship to the archives of Black life, the intersections between history and literature, and the politics of memory. Professor Hartman will engage in a public conversation with two leading UC Santa Cruz humanities scholars, literary critic Vilashini Cooppan and historian Greg O’Malley. Monday, April 19, 4:00pm-5:30pm.
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The Anthropologist as Curator
In this event hosted by AIL: Anthropology of the Image lab and the Manetti Shrem Museum, Roger Sansi (Universitat de Barcelona), editor of The Anthropologist as Curator (2020), discusses the impact of bringing together the diverse perspectives of scholars working at the intersection of anthropology, contemporary art, museum studies, curatorial studies and heritage studies. Contributors include George Marcus (UC Irvine), Ethnographic Terminalia, Tarek Elhaik (UC Davis), and Judith Winter. Wednesday, April 21, 12:00pm.
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A Taste of Cafe Ohlone
This Sips and Bites series event, co-hosted by DHI's Transcollege Research Cluster on Radical and Relational Approaches to Fermentation and Food Sovereignty, hosts Cafe Ohlone co-founders Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino who will lead a tasting of several foods from Cafe Ohlone and discuss the importance of food to empowering Ohlone community. Moderated by UC Davis Assistant Professor of Native American Studies Jessica Bissett Perea and UC Davis professor of Food Science and Technology Maria Marco. Wednesday, April 21, 6:00pm - 7:00pm.
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The Mellon Research Initiative in Racial Capitalism Presents: Wan-Chuan Kao, "In the Lap of Whiteness"
This workshop discusses Professor Wan-Chuan Kao's (University of Washington) work on whiteness and racial capital in Chaucer's "The Squire's Tale." RSVP to access pre-circulated materials and Zoom join information. Wednesday, April 21, 4:00pm - 6:00pm.
Image credit: "Wrong Asian" by Linh-Yen Hoang
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Migration and Aesthetics Research Colloquium I: Ecofascism and Migration in the Americas; Traces...
In this event, UCD professors Emily Celeste Vázquez Enriquez and Fiamma di Montezemolo present their own works that explore the politics and aesthetics of migration, movement, and borders in North and Central America. Register for the Zoom presentation here. Friday, April 23, 10:00am - 12:00pm.
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9th Annual NAS Virtual Grad Student Symposium
This symposium is the only Native American and Indigenous studies symposium organized by and for graduate students in the United States. This year’s theme, “From Red Power to Wallmapu Libre and Land Back: Engaging Hemispheric Indigenous Resistance Movements,” recognizes and connects the continued relevance of Indigenous resurgence especially significant in recent events. April 26-29, 10:00am-1:00pm.
Artwork by Tori McConnell, Yurok
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