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Supplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Care & Repair Funding, 2024-25
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Jan 31, 2024
Multicampus Faculty Working Groups, 2024-25
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Jan 31, 2024
Jr. Faculty Manuscript Workshop, 2024-25
Eligibility: UC junior faculty (tenure track but not yet tenured) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their first book projectDeadline: Jan 31, 2024
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Black Feminist Healing Arts
This working group seeks to demonstrate and provide practical means towards liberatory health through intensive exploration of Black feminist healing arts. We propose a platform for critically engaged interdisciplinary scholarship, experimentation, care, and action promoting Black feminist approaches to health and healing. We bring together scholars, creatives, healers, and activists who engage Black feminist theory »
Ugo Edu
African American Studies
UC Los Angeles
Adeola Oni-Orisan
Family & Community Medicine
UC Davis
reelaviolette botts-ward
UC San Francisco

Philosophy Works: An Interview with Alex Dayer
Alex Dyer on curricular changes and diversifying career pathways for philosophy graduate students.

Humanizing Acts: Resisting the Historical Erasures of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Ana Elizabeth Rosas (Humanizing Acts 1/10) introduces her guest editorship series.

Trespass: A Reflection on Trans*border Research
Dan Bustillo (Humanizing Acts 2/10) on navigating transness, identity, and refuge at the border.
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Marxist Institute for Research Summer Seminar
Sagehen Field Research Station (a UC Natural Reserve location)

Refuge at Risk: Concepts, Infrastructures, Futures
University of California Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine
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UCHRI Welcomes Sarah Goeppner, Graduate Student Researcher
A Southern California native, I received my BA in English from UCLA in 2018 and am currently pursuing my PhD in English at UC Irvine, where I have taught courses ranging from justice in the medical humanities to race and gender in gothic literature. While here, I have been invited to guest lecture in courses »