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After the War: An Ultrasonic Meditation

Yehuda Sharim, aka Y(E)S, presents sonic meditations on life, love, and recovery after war.

Oversharing in the Academic Borderlands

Sammy Solis (Work & Refuge 1/7) reflects on scholarly writing as a personal and political act.

Sounding Graduate Student Work

Rosie Dwyer (Work & Refuge 2/7) explores the sonic dimensions of graduate student labor.

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Mapping New California Histories

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

Grants Session with UCHRI

Nov 13, 2024
Zoom Meeting

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Building Faith in Science: An Interfaith Climate Action Project

In August 2023, UCHRI joined the Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network (WUICAN), a UC-funded three-campus initiative that focuses on community-led climate initiatives. To invite new forms of meaning-making and knowledge-sharing into the network, UCHRI reached out to local faith leaders with an unexpected proposal: Are you interested in learning from each other, connecting with scientists, »

Mapping New California Histories: Teachers and Scholars Convene to Share Skills and Knowledge

How do you design a map of the Bay Area that addresses the lived experiences, cosmic perspectives, and ongoing vitality of the Indigenous peoples of the region? You may have to relinquish the tools of Western cartography and come up with a new kind of map altogether—round in shape, with multiple perspectives, Indigenous points of »

UCHRI Director Position Now Open for Recruitment

Open date: March 7, 2025 Next review date: Monday, Apr 7, 2025  Final date: Monday, Jun 30, 2025 The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), established in 1987, facilitates innovative interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities through competitive grants and fellowships, collaborative research partnerships, conferences and workshops, and multi-campus initiatives across the UC system, nationally, »