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| Program Name | Eligibility | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| POSTPONED: University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities, 2021–22 | UC Ladder Rank Faculty | Feb 1, 2022 |
POSTPONED: University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities, 2021–22
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Feb 1, 2022
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Distance and Proximity: Media Culture in the Age of Disruption
The theme of distance and proximity underscores our predicaments in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic. At a moment when we are learning to communicate and “travel” virtually, we have become aware that the relationship between distance and proximity is a well-rehearsed historical topos, and yet unfamiliar to critical scholarship. It has led us to »
Weihong Bao
Film and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures
UC Berkeley
Peter Bloom
Film and Media Studies
UC Santa Barbara
Erkki Huhtamo
Design Media Arts
UC Los Angeles
Foundry
Central Valley Portraits
Yehuda Sharim observes the grain and pulse of California’s Central Valley.
Chances, Changes, and Strange Shapes
Kate Bolton Bonnici toggles between present-day headlines and early modern literature.
Metrics, Enumeration, and the Politics of Knowledge in Estimating Racial Health Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Dialogue with Alexis Madrigal, Co-Founder of The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project
Dialogue 2/4 on COVID-19 and Racism, by UCSC’s Theorizing Race after Race working group.
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Research Grants Manager The UC Humanities Research Institute is a systemwide organization for all 10 campuses in the University of California system. UCHRI facilitates experimental, interdisciplinary humanities scholarship through partnerships, research initiatives, and competitive grants. The research grants manager at UCHRI oversees competitive grants programs across the UC system. This position designs and develops, administers, »
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