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• Jenny Kaminer, Faculty Advisor for the Arts and Humanities; Professor, Dept of German & Russian
• Ana Lucia Cordova, Strategic Initiatives Manager; or Meg Sparling, Office of Research
• Beatriz Cortez, Associate Professor, Dept of Art
• Aaron Fai, Membership and Diversity Officer, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes; Public Humanities Project Advisor, UC Berkeley
• Tessa Hill, Associate Vice Provost of Public Scholarship & Engagement; Professor, Dept of Earth & Planetary Sciences
• Michael Lazzara, Associate Vice Provost

The key role of this position will be helping to chart a course for the UC Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) during this period of transition.

ABORTION AND THE STATES OF AMERICA: A THREE-PART CONVERSATION SERIES

On Abortion and the Law
January 23, 5:30-7:30 PM

On Abortion, Science and Medicine
April 17, 5:30-7:30 PM

This series is supported by the Davis Humanities Institute and the L&S Dean's Office.

The 2022-2023 DHI Research and Arts (HumArts) Clusters Call for Proposals:

The NEH awarded $24 million this month in grants to support 225 humanities projects nationwide. Projects range from the preservation of historic collections, to humanities exhibitions and documentaries, to scholarly research and and curriculum projects. 

The UC Davis Humanities Institute would like to heartily congratulate UC Davis 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities winners:

On November 4, 2020, poet, essayist, playwright, and editor Claudia Rankine delivered a virtual reading and lecture at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis based on her new book, Just Us: An American Conversation. The event, in the words of Shrem Founding Director Rachel Teagle, “brought the conversation home to us.”

The academic research area of the blue humanities applies critical tools, such as those of literature, cultural studies, and history, to oceanic contexts. Where these fields conventionally take the terrestrial as their point of departure, the blue humanities takes the ocean as its, in highly interdisciplinary lines of inquiry. 

Just in time for Halloween, Kyle Bishop, associate professor of English at Southern Utah University and an authority on zombies in U.S. popular culture, will be at UC Davis at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28th to discuss what zombies do for us and why they just won’t “die.”

The University of California Humanities Research Institute has awarded the UC Davis Human Rights Studies Program one of its first Engaging Humanities seed grants, intended to support UC faculty in pursuing thoughtful engagement with diverse publics beyond the academy. Alongside collaborators from UCLA, The History Project, and a community partner, The Genocide Education Project (GenEd), Human Rights Studies will use these funds to pilot a summer institute in genocide and human rights studies for California high school teachers. A prototype workshop is being planned for summer 2021.