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Colorado Desert Education Collaborative
This Engaging Humanities project is an educational partnership between the Imperial Valley Desert Museum (IVDM) in Imperial County, CA and Professor Matthew Herbst of UC San Diego’s Making of the Modern World Program. The project has two inter-related dimensions: one virtual and one in-person. For the former, the project supports IVDM’s educational outreach in school »
Matthew Herbst
Making of the Modern World Program
UC San Diego
After the War: An Ultrasonic Meditation
Yehuda Sharim, aka Y(E)S, presents sonic meditations on life, love, and recovery after war.
Oversharing in the Academic Borderlands
Sammy Solis (Work & Refuge 1/7) reflects on scholarly writing as a personal and political act.
Sounding Graduate Student Work
Rosie Dwyer (Work & Refuge 2/7) explores the sonic dimensions of graduate student labor.
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Mapping New California Histories: Teachers and Scholars Convene to Share Skills and Knowledge
How do you design a map of the Bay Area that addresses the lived experiences, cosmic perspectives, and ongoing vitality of the Indigenous peoples of the region? You may have to relinquish the tools of Western cartography and come up with a new kind of map altogether—round in shape, with multiple perspectives, Indigenous points of »
UCHRI Director Position Now Open for Recruitment
Open date: March 7, 2025 Next review date: Monday, Apr 7, 2025 Final date: Monday, Jun 30, 2025 The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), established in 1987, facilitates innovative interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities through competitive grants and fellowships, collaborative research partnerships, conferences and workshops, and multi-campus initiatives across the UC system, nationally, »
LARB Publishing Workshop Expands Career Opportunities for UC Graduate Students
By Victoria Le, UCHRI Undergraduate Intern Writer and aspiring publisher Arielle Burgdorf said they feared their chances of working in publishing would be slim, and found the conversations surrounding the job market to be “depressing.” So Burgdorf, a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, turned to the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing »
