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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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Co-Productions: Literature, Media and Diaspora in the Japanese Transpacific
The symposium “Co-Productions: Literature, Media and Diaspora in the Japanese Transpacific” is a two-day event of discussions and debate involving scholars from both Japan and the UC system to take place at UCR in Spring 2021. It brings together scholars of Japanese studies and Japanese American studies around the theme of “transpacific co-production” and breaks »
John Kim
Comparative Literature
UC Riverside
Setsu Shigematsu
Media and Cultural Studies
UC Riverside
Foundry
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.
Reimagining California’s Relationship to Fire
Sage Gerson contextualizes fire within a history of racial and colonial violence.
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has generously granted $300,000 to be dedicated to the University of California Humanities Research Institute endowment campaign. The funding will be applied to count towards the funding requirement to match the Mellon Foundation endowment of $10 million to support UCHRI and the UC Humanities Network. We are enormously grateful »
