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Karen Embry Awarded DHI/English Department Funding to Theory Camp
Posted: Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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During her graduate work at UC Davis, Karen Embry has found herself increasingly interested in a variety of theoretical pursuits; aside from her doctoral work in the English Department, primarily in the area of 20th Century U.S. Literature, she has focused heavily on courses offered through the interdepartmental Critical Theory program and the German Department. [...]
DHI’s Event Support Process Goes Paperless
Posted: Friday, April 25th, 2008
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Beginning with the Fall 2008 funding cycle, the application process for event support from the DHI will be completely paperless. We have revamped the online form and created an automatic submission and email notification process. We have also revised some of our policies, both to streamline the process and to ensure [...]
Faculty Participants Selected for Art of Regional Change
Posted: Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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Scholar-community engagement is at the core of the Art of Regional Change (ARC) project. This year four humanities and social science scholars - Ryan Galt (Community Development), Julie Sze (American Studies), Julie Wyman (Technocultural Studies) and Michael Ziser (English) - were chosen as faculty partners/collaborators for the ARC’s pilot project, Up From the UnderStory. This [...]
UC Davis Joins Imagining America
Posted: Friday, August 15th, 2008
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Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities and design. Our membership in IA enables individual scholars and students at UC Davis, as well as the university as an institution, to access IA’s knowledge and funding resources and [...]
2008-2009 Faculty Research Seminars Highlight Religion and Science, Critical California Studies
Posted: Friday, August 15th, 2008
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In 2008-2009 the DHI will fund two distinct faculty research seminars. In the fall quarter, scholars in fields ranging from history, classics and religious studies to art history, comparative literature and American studies will come together to explore the theme “Science and the Sacred.” Additional funding from the California Cultures Initiative has enabled the DHI [...]
2-unit course offering: The Digital Humanities
Posted: Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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DHI2 will organize a directed reading fall quarter for graduate students interested in digital and other new media practices in the humanities. The group will meet every two weeks to discuss pre-assigned readings and other digital projects. Carolyn de la Peña and Kara Thompson will lead the directed reading and the final, collective goal will [...]
DHI Hosts Two Superclusters in 2008-09
Posted: Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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Thanks to supplemental grant support from the 20th Anniversary-UC Presidential Humanities Initiative Program, the DHI is able to fund two superclusters this year. The Environmental Humanities and Latin@american Cultural Studies clusters both will receive seed funds for major projects that will engage broader audiences and serve as a springboard to long-term initiatives in these fields. [...]
New Workshop Series for Humanities Grad Students
Posted: Monday, October 27th, 2008
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New Workshop Series for Humanities Grad Students
Join us for Knowledge Networking, a professional development workshop series for UC Davis graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. Throughout the year, the UC Davis Humanities Institute will offer workshops on grant writing, library resources, research strategies, conference presentations, academic networking and other skills crucial to success [...]
New Website Showcases Digital Humanities Opportunities
Posted: Monday, November 17th, 2008
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DHI2 – the Digital Humanities Initiative at the Davis Humanities Institute – grew out of the “Beyond the Book” supercluster conference in spring 2008. DHI2 provides a physical and virtual space for digital innovation and collaboration on campus to help graduate students and faculty generate ideas and build the necessary skills to produce multimedia humanities [...]
Latin@american Cultural Studies Supercluster website launched!
Posted: Monday, November 17th, 2008
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The website for the Latin@american Cultural Studies research cluster, the newest DHI’s “supercluster” for 2008-09, is now up and running. For information on membership, activities and plans for future events, go to: http://estudiosculturales.ucdavis.edu
Information on the other DHI supercluster, Environmental Humanities, can be found at: http://environmentalhumanities.ucdavis.edu