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Transits: Keywords for Critical Refugee Studies
As “history’s battered subjects,” refugees have been the subject of volumes of study in sociology, political science, and literature, coming into being in this scholarship as in-between figures that symbolize victimization, resistance, or postmodern interstitiality. Despite the volumes of words that are used to talk about refugees, there is, in fact, a paucity and poverty »
Yến Lê Espiritu
Ethnic Studies
UC San Diego
Khatharya Um
Ethnic Studies
UC Berkeley
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 Welcomes Matthew Hartman, Postdoctoral Scholar in Climate Communications and Environmental Justice
I received my PhD in Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where my work focused on the intersection of religious studies, climate ethics, and environmental humanities. My research explores how identity formation and the construction of narrative shape views of and responses to the climate crisis. My dissertation, “White-Hot Environments: Religious Entanglements of »
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 »