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Mattering Elements
This scholarly collective explores the multiple analytical and empirical capacities that chemical philosophy and chemistry practice afford when thought materially and metaphorically. Our scholarly collective seeks to tap chemistry—the science of transformation—and its historically shifting methods as inspiration for thinking the unstable materializations of our world. It asks: what capacities and modalities emerge when we »
Suzana Sawyer
Anthropology
UC Davis
The Right to Sex: Interview with Amia Srinivasan
Amia Srinivasan on the institution’s role in setting up our rights to desire.
Race, Contagion, and the Nation: A Dialogue with Pedro Valdez, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Jenny Reardon, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
Dialogue 3/4 on COVID-19 and Racism, by UCSC’s Theorizing Race after Race working group.
Posthumous Racisms
Ackbar Abbas explores the conundrum of anti-racism and racism as mirror images.
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Since 1987, the UC Humanities Research Institute has been a centerpiece of University of California-wide investment in humanities research. Founded by UC President David Gardner, UCHRI has promoted innovation and leadership in the practice and sharing of collaborative humanistic research across all 10 campuses, nationally, and internationally. UCHRI has been directed by David Theo Goldberg »
UCHRI is Hiring: UCI Undergraduate Media Assistant
The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) seeks a UCI undergraduate student assistant to assist with editing photos, videos, and audio files; website content; audiovisual event needs at on-site or off-site locations (contingent on Covid-19 guidelines in place at time of employment); and generating communications materials. Applicants must be currently-enrolled undergraduate students at UCI »
UCHRI is Hiring
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, »
