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Black Miami in the Eye of the Storm: Performing Black Sustainability
Miami has been marked as ground zero in the battle against climate change. This is a watershed moment in Miami history defined by unprecedented development, climate gentrification, and a creative capital boom. My manuscript, “Black Miami in the Eye of the Storm: Performing Black Sustainability,” is a cultural analysis centering performances of Black sustainability in »
Mysia Anderson
Theater and Dance
UC San Diego

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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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, »