DHI Events

The UC Davis Humanities Institute supported doctoral and MFA students in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences through the Mellon Public Scholars program.

“She was his Concubine”: The Archive and the Lives of Black Concubines After Reconstruction

Faculty and graduate students from all UC campuses are welcome. The discussion will be geared towards those completing their first academic manuscripts.

Panelists:
Niels Hooper, Executive Editor, University of California Press

Zoom Webinar Register here: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AtyObToMRw2eH_NJe2V2iw

The Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision which overturned Roe v. Wade is well-known. But the details of exactly how the law changed and its relationship to society are not.

Many people assume that religion is opposed to abortion. The reality is both more complicated and more interesting. In this panel discussion, experts in the field of religious studies will unpack how history, politics, and ethical reasonings have shaped different religious views of abortion.

Digging the Past offers fine-grained case studies of projects heralded as innovations in the seventeenth century and today: composting and soil amendment, local food, natural wine, and hedgerows. Frances E.

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Linguistic prescriptivism meets reality: The science of verb mood variation among heritage and monolingual speakers of Spanish

By Dr. Paul Kidhardt