UC Davis Humanities Institute

06/30/2023

The DHI's Annual Newsletter! -

06/27/2023

DHI Digest -

Internal Deadline: Jun. 30 UC Davis will submit two nominees to the National Endowment for the Humanities 2024-2025 Summer Stipends competition. The NEH Summer Stipends program stimulates new research in the humanities and its publications by supporting the work of individual scholars doing research...

06/22/2023

https://dhi.ucdavis.edu/events/neh-summer-stipends
1 week left to apply.
UC Davis has been invited to submit two nominees to the National Endowment for the Humanities 2023-2024 Summer Stipends competition. The NEH Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publications by supporting the work of individual scholars doing research or writing. Anyone can apply, as long as they are not a degree candidate at time of application. Junior faculty are particularly encouraged to apply. Graduate students are ineligible for this award.
While the NEH deadline for this year’s competition is September 20, 2023, UC Davis will conduct an internal competition, as in the past, to select its two campus nominees from among its faculty. The deadline for the internal UC Davis proposals is June 30, 2023. Please note that non-tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, staff, retired faculty, community college faculty, and independent scholars are exempt from nomination and may apply independently.
Please email DHI Interim Director, Archana Venkatesan ([email protected]) with any questions regarding the internal application process.

06/21/2023

In honor of World Music Day, we invite you to listen to a special podcast featuring our 2023 Artist in Residence, Sikkil Gurucharan. Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/ucd-humanities-institute/dialogic-episode-9?si=61413a927db04ee59567eb0274b51ebe&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

06/20/2023

DHI Digest -

Jun. 21 @ 2:30-3:30 p.m. Manetti Shrem Museum Rachel Jean-Baptiste will speak about her new book “The Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship.”

06/15/2023

https://dhi.ucdavis.edu/events/neh-summer-stipends

2 weeks left to apply.

UC Davis has been invited to submit two nominees to the National Endowment for the Humanities 2023-2024 Summer Stipends competition. The NEH Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publications by supporting the work of individual scholars doing research or writing. Anyone can apply, as long as they are not a degree candidate at time of application. Junior faculty are particularly encouraged to apply. Graduate students are ineligible for this award.
While the NEH deadline for this year’s competition is September 20, 2023, UC Davis will conduct an internal competition, as in the past, to select its two campus nominees from among its faculty. The deadline for the internal UC Davis proposals is June 30, 2023. Please note that non-tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, staff, retired faculty, community college faculty, and independent scholars are exempt from nomination and may apply independently.
Please email DHI Interim Director, Archana Venkatesan ([email protected]) with any questions regarding the internal application process.

06/14/2023

Did you miss the event celebrating the legacy of Dr. Gurdev Khush? Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/IBA281RJ8-A

This event commemorated the dedication of Dr. Gurdev S. Khush’s papers to the UC Davis library. Dr. Khush is a Geneticist, Plant Breeder, and UC Davis Alumnus (1960). Collections to be donated to UC Davis library pertain to contributions to world food security and poverty alleviation, correspondence with Professor G. L. Stebbins and Charles Rick, graduate supervisor and postdoctoral mentor at UC Davis respectively, correspondence with other colleagues, invitations to participate and speak at international conferences, drafts of speeches and addresses during award ceremonies after receiving Japan Prize and World Food Prize, Wolf Prize and other prizes, documents related to the Green Revolution, biographical materials including diplomas, photographs with world dignitaries, and honors, reports of scientific visits to rice growing countries, miscellaneous pamphlets and press clippings, scientific publications bound together into five volumes and reviews of his book Cytogenetics of Aneuploids published in 1973.

This event commemorated the dedication of Dr. Gurdev S. Khush’s papers to the UC Davis library. Dr. Khush is a Geneticist, Plant Breeder, and UC Davis Alumn...

06/13/2023

DHI Digest -

Jun. 12 @ 5:00-7:00 p.m. Imagining America offices 207 3rd St, Suite 120, Davis Join the Hypha Collective to assemble a community-sourced quilt made of materials created over six months with different community members using fermented materials like kombucha leather and sourdough hankies and more. L...

06/12/2023

Check out some scholar-led LGBTQIA+ organizations on campus here: https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/connected/student-org

06/09/2023

Join in two weeks in Sacramento for a one-of-a-kind event!
This series of events, spanning one weekend (June 23-25), is a platform for discussion arising from viewing two films, Sounder (1972) and The Martian (2015), which will be screened outdoors at Esther's Park, in Sacramento, California. The films provide an anchor for an in-depth discussion between scholars, farmers, and community members around the history of farming and agriculture, with an emphasis on sugar and the ongoing story of Black contribution.
Building one upon the other sequentially, the events will also function autonomously. Whether attendees come to one or all, the experience will be rewarding. Some of the events will include snacks and refreshments suggested by the films. Learn more here: https://dhi.ucdavis.edu/2022-2023-cultivation/food-thought

06/08/2023

June 8, 2023 - 11:00 am - June 26, 2023 - 6:00 pm
This year’s Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition, running June 9 – 25 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, features student work from across the College of Letters and Science. Thirty graduate students from history, performance studies, English, design, art history and art studio will present their research exploring the pressing issues of our time, including environmental destruction, racism and immigration, while offering both practical and idealistic ways of thinking about and solving problems, or engaging with personal experiences, memory and aesthetic practices.

This year’s Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition, running June 9 – 25 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of ...