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Living Through Upheaval Grants Program, 2021-22
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Apr 5, 2021
Podcast Support Grant, 2021-2022
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Apr 5, 2021
Working Through Upheaval: Affiliated Scholars Grant, 2021-22
Eligibility: UC PhD Alumni from the humanities and humanistic social sciences without institutional affiliations (or who are in adjunct positions with less than 50% appointment and for less than a year) who are pursuing academic positions in 2021-22. Applicants must have graduated within the past three years (no earlier than June 2018). Graduate students who finish their degree by June 2021, and without confirmed academic employment, are eligible to apply.Deadline: Apr 5, 2021
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Exposed Flesh: A Literary History of Black Being
Historically, the characterization of black subjects as inhuman has been predicated upon a supposed lack of an interior—an inability to properly think, feel, or perform all that is suggested to come from “within.” Alongside these configurations, however, are the caricatured images of black subjects as joyfully ignorant, sexually lascivious, untrustworthy tricksters. This second set of »
Sarah Buckner
English
UC Riverside
Foundry
Out of History: Against the Self-evidence of Anti-blackness
Diren Valayden and Megan McCabe ask: what does a reading of anti-blackness as racial discourse reveal?
Reading for Infrastructure
Chokehold, Entanglement, Energy. Explore a lexicon for navigating new artifices and arrangements.
Museums and Decolonial Activism
Saloni Mathur captures debates surrounding the seizure of a material past.
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UCHRI Awards 30 Multicampus Humanities Grants
Looking ahead to what we hope will be a much brighter and more connected year, UCHRI’s Advisory Committee selected the first round of grantees for the 2021-22 academic year. Over $250,000 in new awards will support 30 projects ranging from multicampus working groups, collaborative research “residencies” (virtual for now, in-person when possible), interdisciplinary and international »
David Theo Goldberg Announces Departure from UCHRI
UCHRI would like to share the news that David Theo Goldberg, Director of UCHRI since 2000, has informed the University of California that AY 2020-21 will be his last as UCHRI Director. Director Goldberg will continue to serve as faculty in Comparative Literature and Anthropology at UC Irvine. In the coming academic year he plans »
Foundry Open Call: Living Through Upheaval – Under Fire
Under Fire. On Water. After Earth. Out of Air. Foundry is devoted to innovative work that takes on emerging trends and possibilities in the humanities through experimental scholarship in form and substance. The Living Through Upheaval open call series summons scholars, activists, and artists to weigh the impact of our world’s contemporary transformations from a »
