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Marxist Institute for Research: An Interview with Annie McClanahan and Robert Nichols

Annie McClanahan and Robert Nichols on the success of the Marxist Institute for Research.

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Lorena Alvarado and Yehuda Sharim offer an intimate peek into Huntington Park in Los Angeles.

Memory Histories: I Am Not Your Data

Anjali Arondekar resists datafication in this series on Care and Repair.

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Mapping New California Histories

Jan 23–Jan 24, 2025
University of California Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine

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UCHRI Welcomes Brittany Turner, Graduate Student Researcher

I am a second-year PhD student in Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine with interests in global anti-colonial cinemas, Black visual cultures and counter-publics, and community-based creative labor. My research traces a genealogy of militant, participatory filmmaking practice to consider the aims and anti-colonial and postcolonial preoccupations of contemporary filmmakers in the Global South. »

Cross-Pollinating the Humanities and Environmental Science

By Munyao Kilolo, UCHRI Graduate Student Researcher, and Marianna Davison, WUICAN Postdoctoral Scholar “What does it taste like? What is the viscosity? How does it smell?”  Alejandra Cano, an agroecologist and Native American Studies PhD candidate at UC Davis, asked participants in UCHRI’s Climate Action Summer Institute to sample honey from different species of bee. »

UCHRI Receives $200,000 Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant from the UC Office of the President

The grant will support an intercampus manuscript workshop and research development program for faculty across the UC. UCHRI has received a three-year grant to support its Manuscript Workshop and Research Development program, which expands and enhances UCHRI’s Manuscript Workshop grant. The intercampus program will serve the publication goals of early- and mid-career faculty members in »