The UC Davis Humanities Institute is an interdisciplinary research center that supports UC Davis faculty in the humanities and humanistically-oriented social sciences through Intellectual Collaborations, Grant Assistance, and Event Support. It also brings the campus and larger community together to address pressing issues in the Public Intellectuals Forum, a collaboration with the Center for History, Society, and Culture. Current DHI priorities include scholarship on California and its surrounding regions and digital innovation. These are supported through the California Cultures Initiative and the Digital Humanities Initiative. The DHI also offers office space for meetings and visiting scholars.
The DHI advocates broadly for the humanities through membership in national organizations as well as the UC Humanities Consortium, a system-wide network of humanities centers that, along with the UC Humanities Research Institute and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts, provides a wide range of financial and intellectual resources for scholars in the arts and humanities throughout the state of California. The DHI is funded by the Office of the President through the Humanities Consortium Multi Campus Research Initiative, the Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, the Vice Chancellor of Research, and the Dean of Social Sciences.
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New Posting by Timothy Morton on POV@DHI
This new blogsite - povatdhi.wordpress.com - provides an open forum for UC Davis faculty and graduate students in the humanities to discuss issues related to research in our field, its place within the University, and its value to our students and the public. Readers are invited to comment on POV pieces via the blog and to submit pieces for future columns to ctdelapena@ucdavis.edu
The latest essay, “POVs R Us,” by Timothy Morton, professor of English, is excerpted here:
Think of a perspective painting: it has vanishing points that tell you how to look at it. In some sense, the attitude the painting wants you to assume is already “in” the painting. In the same way, all statements (ideas, images, whatever) come bundled with implicit attitudes.
That’s the trouble with ideas in general: they code for how to think about them. Getting rid of one is harder than people think, because the attitudes they convey are not “in” your head—they’re hardwired into stuff “over there” like the shape of a Coke bottle or a language proficiency test.
We humanists (see, I used a bad word already) are in the business of making explicit the attitudes that come bundled with statements.
New Research Cluster: Chicana/Latina Studies in California
The main purpose of the Chicana/Latina Studies in California research cluster is to engage directly with the future of Chicana/Latina studies within the UC system and within the state of California. This cluster brings together faculty and graduate students working on Chicana/Latina strategies of survival, of creative resistance, of cultural celebration, and of political protest. Moreover, this cluster recognizes the severe underrepresentation of Chicana, Latina, and Native women scholars in the UC system and thus remains committed to providing a space for building mentoring relationships. [more]
New Faculty Profile: Corrie Decker
Corrie Decker joined the Social Sciences division at UC Davis this fall as an assistant professor in the Department of History. Prior to coming to Davis, she taught African history at Lehman College. Her research focuses on twentieth-century history of East Africa, with an emphasis on childhood, education, gender, and sexuality. Decker sat down with the DHI on Nov 10, 2009 to chat about her work on Zanzibar and Kenya. Check out the highlights from our discussion. [more]
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: UCHRI WORKING GROUPS
About the Working Group Call For Proposals
The UC Humanities Research Institute is pleased to announce its first call for Working Group proposals. Working Groups and Workshops will provide financial and technological resources for University of California faculty to support research collaboration and communication within the extended range of humanities disciplines. [more]
Public Intellectuals Forum Features President of Mellon Foundation
On Tuesday, April 27, at the Mondavi Studio Theater, the final Public Intellectuals Forum of the year will host Mellon president Don Randel speaking on “The Values of the University.” Randel brings more than four decades of distinguished scholarship and leadership in higher education as well as insights from his current position as head of the nation’s leading funder of research in the humanities and arts to this discussion of the principles for which the university can and should stand. [more]
CFP: UC Multicampus Research Groups in the Humanities
Deadline: March 1, 2010 (online application system opens January 19)
The University of California Humanities Network, through the UC Humanities Research Institute, announces a Call for Proposals for UC Multicampus Research Groups (MRGs) in the Humanities. Funding for MRGs was included in the recent successful proposal of the UC Humanities Network as a component of the UC Consortium of Humanities Centers. The Consortium will oversee the competition and make final funding decisions.[more]