Initiatives are multi-campus collaborations on particular topics and issues programmed and administered entirely by UCHRI and funded almost exclusively through external grants.
Living Through Upheaval
Living Through Upheaval addresses the transformative issues related to moments of upheaval–past, present, and future.
Liberal Arts in a Future Tense
A working group to assess how liberal arts education is and should be adapting to the modern world.
Humanists@Work
Humanists@Work offers graduate student-led initiatives and programs that allow PhD students to explore and pursue diverse professional and career opportunities.
Horizons of the Humanities
Horizons of the Humanities explores the ways social and technological changes shape the humanities and the university more broadly.
Asia Theories Network
A global scholarly network that fosters exchange between scholars in Asia, the Global East, and other parts of the world.
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.
DML Competition
The Digital Media and Learning Competition was designed to find and inspire the most novel uses of new media in support of connected learning.
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.
Humanities and Work
The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work explores and assesses the critical historical and contemporary transformations in the meanings and experiences of work.
RIDAGA
Religions in Diaspora and Global Affairs explored the complex cultural and political relations between diasporic religious communities and their self-identified homelands.
SECT
The Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory functions as a “laboratory” for graduate students and faculty to think with scholars at the leading edge of creative critical theory.
