DHI and ISS Announce New Call for Proposals for Dissertation Retreat

The Davis Humanities Institute and the Institute for Social Sciences are accepting applications for a dissertation retreat held April 10 and 11, due by Friday, February 20 at 5 pm. Doctoral candidates from the humanities and the social sciences are invited to apply.

UC Davis Hosts Music and Words Festival Jan. 27-31

This festival “will include concerts of landmark works from the last 50 years and new pieces by emerging composers, along with residences by internationally known musicians. Music and Words is a collaboration between the UC Davis Department of Music, and the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.”

New Mellon Research Initiatives in the Humanities Awarded

The UC Davis Humanities Institute is pleased to announce the two new Mellon Research Initiatives in the Humanities: Comparative Border Studies: Rights, Containment, Protest and Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds to begin in the fall of 2015.