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The California Ideology Project
“The California Ideology Project” is a group of scholars working on the problem of whether California, rather than being a refuge against the rise of American fascism, may rather present––in the regressive cultural production typified by Silicon Valley and Hollywood––something like its vanguard. Our immediate aims are to organize a conference to deepen this problematic, »
Kyle Proehl
Comparative Literature
UC Davis
Shaun Terry
History of Consciousness
UC Santa Cruz
Critical Machine Learning Studies: An Interview with Fabian Offert and Rita Raley
Fabian Offert and Rita Raley on why the humanities are central to critical machine learning and AI studies.
Experiments in Freedom: An Interview with Yehuda Sharim
Yehuda Sharim reflects on his his UCHRI-supported feature film, Experiments in Freedom.
Crash, Wave
Christina Lux explores the science on waves in poetic form.
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UCHRI Partners with LARB to Fund UC Graduate Students
UCHRI has partnered with the LA Review of Books to offer two spots to UC graduate students in the LARB Publishing Workshop, an intensive summer training program for aspiring publishing professionals with an emphasis on diverse and innovative publishing outcomes. The workshop will take place online between June 24 and July 26, 2024. In line »
UCHRI Welcomes Aaron Katzeman, Graduate Student Researcher
I am a PhD Candidate in Visual Studies at UC Irvine researching contemporary art and film produced alongside resistance to military occupation, social movements for agrarian reform, and anti-colonial national liberation struggles. In my dissertation, “Aloha ‘Āina as Medium: Land, Art, and Sovereignty in Post-Statehood Hawai‘i,” I trace a counter-institutional lineage of visual culture advancing »
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