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Featured Grants
Program Name | Eligibility | Deadline |
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Work & Refuge: The Future of Graduate Student Professionalization, 2023-24 | UC Graduate Students | Feb 27, 2023 |
Conference Grant, 2023-24 | UC Ladder Rank Faculty | Feb 27, 2023 |
Engaging Humanities Grant, 2023–24 | UC Ladder Rank Faculty | Feb 27, 2023 |
Work & Refuge: The Future of Graduate Student Professionalization, 2023-24
Eligibility: UC Graduate StudentsDeadline: Feb 27, 2023
Conference Grant, 2023-24
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Feb 27, 2023
Engaging Humanities Grant, 2023–24
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Feb 27, 2023
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Awards Archive:
Mapping Carcerality and Resistance in Southern California: Orange County and In(LA)nd Regions
This working group is a collective of first-generation, Indigenous, and criminal-legal-system-impacted doctoral students across three UC campuses (UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, and UC Riverside) who seek to explore the carceral conditions in Southern California. The purpose of this working group is to bring together a community of scholars from multiple disciplines including education, sociology, »
Joana Chavez
Chicana/Chicano and Central American Studies
UC Los Angeles
Jazmin Garcia
Ethnic Studies
UC Riverside

Shifting the Horizon: An Interview with Guest Artist Rebeca Méndez
Rebeca Méndez spoke to UCHRI Interim Director Julia R. Lupton about her work on migration and its place within the Institute’s Refuge and Its Refusals initiative.

Refuge in Words | UC Authors Talk About Refuge
Refuge in Words is a series of conversations with UC authors who have published books on refuge this year. As part of UCHRI’s 2022-23 initiative, Refuge and Its Refusals, Refuge in Words considers refuge and its discontents in the self-understanding of the humanities and the formative place of refugee scholarship in the history and futures »

Queer and Trans Studies in Religion in the 2020s: An Interview with Melissa Wilcox
Melissa Wilcox spoke to UCHRI Research Grants Manager, Sara Černe, for a new Foundry series highlighting the work of the Institute’s recent grantees and the methods, unorthodox approaches, and challenges they have employed and encountered.
Featured Events

New UC Faculty: An Introduction to UCHRI
Zoom Meeting

Marxist Institute for Research Summer Seminar
Sagehen Field Research Station (a UC Natural Reserve location)

Refuge at Risk: Concepts, Infrastructures, Futures
University of California Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine
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Reflecting on Refuge: Director’s Statement
When I came to the UCHRI as interim director in July 2022, I knew I wanted to use this transitional year to consider the humanities within the framework of hospitality. Questions around hospitality have engaged me as both a Shakespeare scholar and as the director of humanities centers and programs, and I was excited to »

Call for Graduate Student Participants for Refuge at Risk: Concepts, Infrastructures, Futures
Call for Graduate Student Participants: for Refuge at Risk: Concepts, Infrastructures, Futures We invite UC graduate students to register for the special graduate session of UCHRI’s Refuge at Risk conference on Thursday, February 16th from 1:00-2:30 pm. This session will bring together graduate and postdoctoral scholars working on the theme of refuge, broadly conceived. It »

Refuge in Words and Images: Call for Statements of Interest
As part of our 2022-23 theme, Refuge and Its Refusals, we plan to submit a Concept Note to the Luce Foundation in their Religion and Theology Program. We seek University of California faculty as well as senior staff with PI status who are interested in partnering with each other and with community organizations around religion, »