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Initiatives

Initiatives are multi-campus collaborations on particular topics and issues programmed and administered by UCHRI.

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Sustenance

Sustenance is a UCHRI / Humanities Network collaboration. UCHRI seeks to support events and projects under the Sustenance theme in 2025-26.

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Climate Action and WUICAN

UCHRI is a core partner in the Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network, a team of UC researchers and community partners.

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UCHRI Manuscript Workshop and Research Development Program

An intercampus initiative that serves the publication goals of UC faculty.

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UC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship Program

An intercampus faculty mentoring program serving the University of California.

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Asia Theories Network

A global scholarly network that fosters exchange between scholars in Asia, the Global East, and other parts of the world.

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California Studies

The California Studies Consortium brought together scholars across the UC system and beyond to explore historical and contemporary issues concerning all things California.

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Care and Repair

Care & Repair is a UCHRI / Humanities Network collaboration. UCHRI seeks to support events and projects under the Care & Repair theme in 2023-24.

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DML Research Hub

The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub advances research in service of a more equitable, participatory and effective ecosystem of learning in the networked era.

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Entanglement

Entanglement is a UCHRI / Humanities Network collaboration. UCHRI seeks to support events and projects under the Entanglement theme in 2024-25.

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Horizons of the Humanities, 2016-2024

Horizons of the Humanities explores the ways social and technological changes shape the humanities and the university more broadly.

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Humanists@Work

Humanists@Work offers graduate student-led initiatives and programs that allow PhD students to explore and pursue diverse professional and career opportunities.

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Liberal Arts in a Future Tense, 2018-2023

A working group to assess how liberal arts education is and should be adapting to the modern world.

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Living Through Upheaval

Living Through Upheaval addresses the transformative issues related to moments of upheaval–past, present, and future.

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Refuge and Its Refusals

Refuge and Its Refusals is a new 18-month research initiative developed by UCHRI and the Humanities Network to foster the systemwide engagement of humanities faculty and students around refuge as concept, practice, obligation, and ruse.  The promise of refuge animates institutions as diverse as universities, hospitals, museums, and detention centers and as quotidian as restrooms, »

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