UCR Center for Ideas and Society

2024 Mellon Sawyer Seminars
UCR Internal Call for Proposals - 2024 Limited Submission

The Mellon Foundation has invited UCR to submit one application for consideration to the 2024 Sawyer Seminars program. The Center for Ideas and Society will facilitate an internal review of submissions, led by a committee of CHASS faculty reviewers.

UCR Application Deadline: September 25, 2024

Apply now: https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/mellonsawyer/

Join us for the next Structural Racism Reading Group, September 12 at 12pm

Reading: Trent et al. (2019). The impact of racism on child and adolescent health. Pediatrics, 144(2), e20191765.

Facilitator: Marina Gad El Sayed, UCR SOM PRIME

Join Stream: https://ucr.zoom.us/j/97016689447?pwd=QnF7YOCbdsDOShjUDLngbhbnIrkEe0.1

The deadline to apply for 2025-26 Society for the Humanities Residential Fellowships is just one month away!

For the year 2025-26, the Society for the Humanities will explore "Scale." Read the full focal theme description on our website, as well as the call for applications for our 2025-26 Society for the Humanities Residential Fellowships: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/news/announcing-2025-26-focal-theme-scale
Applications are due September 20, 2024.

Scale (or scales) as a form of measurement that can generate relationships between objects or ideas, forms of embodiment, ideas of justice. From the object (noun) by which we measure to the process of scaling (verb), scale is a question we are constantly confronted with. Thinking about scale through humanistic inquiry raises questions about the cultural, social, moral, aesthetic, political implications of quantification. How big of a story, of a theory, of a history does one need to tell to properly encompass an object or idea? What is too much, too many (maybe excessive)? What is too little, too few (maybe insufficient)? What does it mean to say something is out of scale? What does it mean to propose "scaling up" or "scaling down"? How do scales facilitate or interfere with comparison?

Image: "Support" by Lorenzo Quinn, https://lorenzoquinn.com/

Structural Racism reading group
This Thursday!

Join us for the next Structural Racism Reading Group, September 12 at 12pm

Reading: Trent et al. (2019). The impact of racism on child and adolescent health. Pediatrics, 144(2), e20191765.

Facilitator: Marina Gad El Sayed, UCR SOM PRIME

Join Stream: https://ucr.zoom.us/j/97016689447?pwd=QnF7YOCbdsDOShjUDLngbhbnIrkEe0.1

Reminder! Applications due Sept 21.

The University of California Confronts Violence, Mass Atrocity and Hate: Conversations on Human Rights, Humanity and Peacemaking The UC Davis Human Rights Studies Program, in conjunction with faculty from across the University of California system, will host a series of meetings in winter and spring 2025 to explore the ways in which our research, teaching and public scholarship individually and through collaboration can confr...

Join us for the first meeting of the Structural Racism Reading Group, Thursday 8/29 at 12pm via Zoom.

Learn more: https://events.ucr.edu/event/StructuralRacism

National Humanities Leadership Council: Application Portal 2024–25 | National Humanities Center Applications are open for the NHC's 2023-24 National Humanities Leadership Council. Apply now to join this cohort of future leaders and innovators in the humanities!

"Public Humanities" is a new international open access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life. The journal invites submissions to its upcoming Themed Issue The How-To Issue, which will be edited by Jeffrey R. Wilson.

The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2024.

Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/How-to-issue

Apply now for a 2025 ACLS Fellowship, supporting scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences! Awards of $30-60k + additional funding for independent scholars, adjunct faculty, and faculty in teaching-intensive roles. Deadline Sept. 25, 9PM EDT https://bit.ly/3Q0Oi5I

Scholarly Programs | National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience.

The Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies is now accepting applications for Early Career Fellowships and Travel Grants! Learn more about these opportunities and apply by November 14, 2024, 9:00 PM EST: www.acls.org/ChinaStudies

ACLS China Studies Programs Henry Luce Foundation

Kudos to all the 2023-24 awardees for the CHASS-CIS Cosponsorship Program! Check out our slide show of some of the terrific sponsored events this year.

https://youtu.be/52Q547XB9xM

The University of California Confronts Violence, Mass Atrocity and Hate: Conversations on Human Rights, Humanity and Peacemaking The UC Davis Human Rights Studies Program, in conjunction with faculty from across the University of California system, will host a series of meetings in winter and spring 2025 to explore the ways in which our research, teaching and public scholarship individually and through collaboration can confr...

ACLS 2024-25 Fellowship and Grant Deadlines

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its 2024-25 fellowship and grant competitions. ACLS offers programs that promote research across all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

View all calls: https://www.acls.org/competitions-and-deadlines

Join us July 9th at 5pm in College Building North for the last event of the "So Emotional' Book Club"

"Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel" by Carl Safina

Ever wonder why you feel what you feel, is it right to feel that way, or what your feelings are telling you about the world? The ‘So Emotional’ Book Club is here to help you grapple with these questions. OPEN TO UCR COMMUNITY AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

Register: https://events.ucr.edu/event/so_emotional_book_club

Nominations and self-nominations for the 2024 Emory Elliott Award are now open! Submissions are invited for books by CHASS faculty published between July 2023 and June 2024.

Submission deadline is November 1, 2024

Learn more: https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/emoryelliott

Congratulations to the 2024 Summer Pop-Up Award winner!

Between Refuge and Refuse: New Mediums/Methods for Theorizing Refuge(e) Environment

This virtual workshop takes filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s theorization of the intervals and passages between refuge, refuse (noun), and refuse (verb) as a point of departure.

Participants: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (Asian American Studies, UCLA), Emily Hue, (Ethnic Studies, UCR), and Heidi-Amin Hong, (English, UC Santa Barbara)

Join us for the last event in the Emotion and Society Lab's Works-In-Progress Series:

Sergio Ordorico (John Jay College) on "Rational Love and Reciprocity"
July 2 @ 11am

The Emotion and Society Lab's WIP Series allows scholars to present works in progress (about emotions from a philosophical perspective) and receive valuable feedback. It is a virtual read-ahead event with a welcoming vibe, where you are sure to leave smarter than when you came.

Register: emotionandsociety.com/events-1

Thank you all for joining us at Deborah Wong's Last Lecture.

Congratulations to the Being Human Mini-Lab.02 award winner!

Good Medicine: Collective Memory, Storywork, and the Arts of Community-Building

Faculty participants:
Donatella Galella, Crystal Baik, Kimberly Guerrero, Charmaine Craig, Emily Hue, Latipa, PI Tamara Ho.

Thank you for attending the Liberal Studies Undergraduate Symposium!

This Sunday!

Next Sunday!
6/9 @ 7pm at the UCR Palm Desert, Auditorium

Join us for a reading of MURPH, an original new play by Hailey Schneider, sponsored by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCR and the Center for Ideas and Society.

Doors open at 7 p.m. with the show starting at 7:30 p.m.

Free admission: https://events.ucr.edu/event/reading-of-the-play-murph

Join us Tuesday 6/11 @ 5pm for "'So Emotional' Book Club" in College Building North.

Ever wonder why you feel what you feel, is it right to feel that way, or what your feelings are telling you about the world? The ‘So Emotional’ Book Club is here to help you grapple with these questions. OPEN TO UCR COMMUNITY AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

Hybrid Event: Dinner will be served (In-person limited to 15 people, so RSVP if attending in person).

Register: https://events.ucr.edu/event/so_emotional_book_club

Tomorrow!

Poetry, Disability Studies, Arab American and African American Literature: A Conversation with Dr. Therí Pickens
Virtual event, Wednesday 6/5 @ 10:30am

In conversation with Dr. Courtney R. Baker (English, UCR) & award-winning scholar Dr. Pickens (Charles A. Dana Professor of English and Africana Studies at Bates College).

Join stream https://bit.ly/TheriPickens

Tomorrow!

Last Lecture By Deborah Wong
Wednesday 6/5 @ 3:30pm in ARTS 157

The recent academic tradition of the last lecture marks a faculty member’s retirement and departure from the university classroom. This lecture will take place in the final class session of MUS 124/AST 124, “Musics of Asian America,” which is a course built out from Wong's personal research.

Free and open to the campus community.

Reception to follow.

https://events.ucr.edu/event/Lastlecture