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​​DHI Research Cluster Presents Discussion on Extraction and Literature

The DHI Research Cluster, “Extractive Pasts and Hollowed Futures,” held its inaugural event as a  launch for UC Davis Professor of English Elizabeth C. Miller’s new book, Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion, followed by an open discussion in the Voorhies courtyard. The event kicked off a year of discussions planned around concepts like extraction, mining, overproducing, and climate calamities.

 

Upcoming Film Festival Highlights Human Rights Stories From Around the World

The Human Rights Film Festival, inaugurated in 2017 by the UC Davis Humanities Institute and the Human Rights Studies Program in partnership with Human Rights Watch, brings a series of powerful films to Davis each fall. Highlighting human rights issues from Chicago to Palestine, the films serve as a springboard for discussion and study throughout the greater Davis community. This year’s virtual festival will include online film screenings as well as live Q&A events with the filmmakers behind the documentaries.

Archana Venkatesan Wins ALTA Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

Archana Venkatesan, Professor of Religious Studies and Comparative Literature at UC Davis, has been awarded the American Literary Translators Association's Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for Endless Song, her translation of the Tiruvāymoḻi by 9th-century Tamil poet Nammāḻvār. The book is the first work of South Asian Literature and the first Tamil work to win the award.

Following up with DHI Summer Fellows

With shifting Coronavirus protocols and policies, research has been challenging to say the least. We followed up with some of our 2021 Margrit Mondavi and UC Humanities Consortium Summer Fellows to learn about the progress they’ve made on their research projects over the summer.

 

Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellows:

Introducing the 2021-22 DHI HumArts and Transcollege Research Clusters

From History to Law, English to Food Science and Technology, Native American Studies to Theater and Dance, this year’s DHI-sponsored HumArts and Transcollege Clusters represent collaborations and connections between scholars in a wide range of disciplines and fields. 

The DHI is proud to sponsor three new clusters and four continuing clusters for the 2021-22 year.

Transcollege Clusters:

Graduate Mentoring Initiative

Graduate Studies recently developed a faculty mentoring program for faculty across all disciplines called the Graduate Mentoring Initiative. The program includes six sessions and is a cohort model where faculty attend all sessions together. I included the topics covered below.

Congratulations to our Mondavi and Consortium Summer Fellows

The UC Davis Humanities Institute is pleased to announce its 2021 Margrit Mondavi and UC Humanities Consortium Summer Fellows. With 81 applicants from 11 disciplines, this year's application pool was by far our largest and most competitive to date.

Mondavi awardees will each receive $5,000 for project-related work relating to their MFA and PhD degrees. Consortium awardees will each receive $6,000 for PhD work, and the opportunity to be a part of a community of Consortium fellows in Fall 2021.

We congratulate our awardees! They are:

Mondavi:

Dr. Lorena Oropeza Reveals New Facets of Chicano Leader, Reies López Tijerina

The Davis Humanities Institute celebrated the culmination of our 2020-2021 Faculty Book Chat series with a discussion of Dr. Lorena Oropeza’s The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement (2020, The University of North Carolina Press). In conversation with DHI Director Jaimey Fisher, Oropeza read an excerpt from The King of Adobe, spoke about her process of researching Tijerina and writing the book, and answered questions from the audience.