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Conference Grant, 2020–21
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Dec 16, 2019
Residential Research Group (RRG): Topic Proposals (Spring 2021, Fall 2021, and Spring 2022)
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Dec 16, 2019
Mid-Career Faculty Manuscript Workshop, 2020-21
Eligibility: UC faculty (tenure track) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their second book projectDeadline: Dec 16, 2019
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Big Asia: The University of California Faculty Initiative for Multi-campus Graduate Training in East Asian Studies
The “Big Asia” working group is based on the premise that contemporary graduate training in East Asian Studies should engage with multiple geographic and temporal scales rather than remaining conceptually bound to the space and time of the modern nation-state.
Minghui Hu
History
UC Santa Cruz
Foundry
Poor Theory in Three Movements
Three authors meditate on theory as resource and horizon in a moment of global crisis.
Foundry Open Call: Boiling Point
A call for resourceful analysis in erosive times.
Talkbits on Civil War: The Body’s Disharmony
Mei Zhan constellates body, politics, and medicine.
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Foundry Open Call: Boiling Point
The idea of California as a cauldron for the experimental encounters pressure in the form of multiple contemporary crises: domestic terrorism, the resurgence of nationalism, the migrant border crisis, receding coastlines, seismic upheaval, and depleting resources. In an era in which we are confronted by problems such as rapidly changing climates, global inflammation, and the »
UCHRI Announces Calls for Proposals for 2020-21 Grants and Fellowships
UCHRI Announces Deadlines for 2020-21 Grants and Fellowships UCHRI is pleased to announce calls for applications for 2020-21 humanities grants and fellowships. Continuing its long tradition of supporting collaboration, innovation, and excellence in the humanities, the Institute offers awards for conferences, multicampus working groups, public humanities projects, individual research for faculty and graduate students, and »
Awards for Public, Digital, and Collaborative Projects in the Humanities (2019-20)
UCHRI’s Advisory Committee has completed award selections for the 2019-20 academic year. Over $150,000 in grants were awarded to faculty and graduate students on eight campuses across the UC system. Faculty will convene year-long multicampus working groups on women’s suffrage in the Americas, mental health in East Asia, law and society in the Middle East, »
