The UC Davis Humanities Institute is an interdisciplinary research center that fosters intellectual collaborations and facilitates access to research resources for faculty and graduate students who are actively engaged in research and teaching in the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the humanistically-oriented social sciences. It advocates for the humanities within the UC Davis community and works with funding agencies to secure individual and programmatic resources for HArCS faculty. The DHI is also the home of the California Cultures Initiative, formerly the Pacific Regional Humanities Center, as well as the host of two Multi Campus Research Groups and other vibrant campus and community initiatives, including The Art of Regional Change and the Digital Humanities Initiative. The UC Davis Humanities Institute is part of a UC system-wide network of humanities centers that, along with the UC Humanities Research Institute at Irvine and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts, provide a wide range of financial and intellectual resources to nurture a diverse and engaged community of scholars in the arts and humanities throughout the state of California.
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The Art of Regional Change Engages West Sacramento Youth in Neighborhood Mapping Project, June 30
The Art of Regional Change invites you to the Youth Voices for Change Exhibit & Idea Exchange on June 30th, 4-6 pm, at the West Sacramento City Hall, 1110 West Capitol Ave.
Presented by the SacTown Heroes youth group, this multi-media event shares youth perspectives on growing up in West Sacramento and discusses ways the community can help support young people on their journey to adulthood. [more]
NEH Summer Stipend Application Procedures
UC Davis has been invited to submit two nominees to the NEH Summer Stipends competition. Applicants may be either junior or senior faculty. NEH summer stipends provide $6k to support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge to the public’s understanding of the humanities. [more]
Participants Selected for 2009-10 DHI Faculty Research Seminars
Next year the DHI will again host two faculty research seminars: California Convergences: People, Places and Products, convened by Louis Warren (History), will meet in the winter quarter. Faculty participants Desiree Martin (English), Julie Sze (American Studies), and Cecelia Tsu (History) will be joined by PhD candidate Benjamin D’Harlingue (Cultural Studies).
In spring quarter Joe Dumit (Anthropology/Science and Technology Studies) will convene Health, Medicine and Culture in a Globalizing World. Seminar participants are Charlotte Biltekoff (American Studies/Food Science and Technology), Angie Chabram-Dernersesian (Chicana/o Studies), Lucy Corin (English), Cathy Kudlick (History), Carl Whithaus (University Writing Program), and Li Zhang (Anthropology).
Participant bios and descriptions of their projects will be available soon.
Western Humanities Alliance to meet at UC Davis in Fall 2009
On October 29-30, 2009, the UC Davis Humanities Institute will host the annual meeting of the Western Humanities Alliance. The theme is “Engagements: Exploring Regional and International Partnerships in the Humanities,” featuring a keynote address by Catherine Walsh, director of the Cultural Studies Program at Quito University in Ecuador, on Thursday evening.
Innovative programming in the humanities, engaged scholarship and campus-community collaboration, and partnerships with state humanities councils are the discussion topics scheduled for Friday’s panels. The meeting will be an important forum for center directors and representatives of member campuses throughout the region to exchange ideas and think strategically about the problems and possibilities facing the humanities in these challenging times.
More conference information and full schedule will be posted in July.
Humanities Program moves to Languages and Literatures
Languages and Literature has assumed with administration of the Humanities Program, under the directorship of French professor Noah Guynn. For more information on the program go to: http://humanities.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=19