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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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Thinking Past Islam and the West: Theorizing the Political Subject in Contemporary Arab Thought
What is the relationship between the re-interpretation of pre-colonial traditions and the critique and transformation of postcolonial subjects? This project puts postcolonial theory in conversation with contemporary Arab thought to explore its political theory of subject-formation. It closely and systematically examines how three influential Arab thinkers, Abdullah Laroui, Hassan Hanafi, and Mohamed Al-Jabri, theorize the »
Yasmeen Daifallah
Politics
UC Santa Cruz
Foundry
Out of History: Against the Self-evidence of Anti-blackness
Diren Valayden and Megan McCabe ask: what does a reading of anti-blackness as racial discourse reveal?
Reading for Infrastructure
Chokehold, Entanglement, Energy. Explore a lexicon for navigating new artifices and arrangements.
Museums and Decolonial Activism
Saloni Mathur captures debates surrounding the seizure of a material past.
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UCHRI is pleased to announce the two winners of the 2021-22 Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship in medicine and humanities. These two graduate students were selected from an extremely competitive systemwide pool of applicants, and their work represents UC’s cross-disciplinary excellence in medicine and the humanities. That “Greater Passivity”: Refusal »
