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University of California Humanities Research Institute
UCHRI is a multi-campus research unit of the UC Office of the President. It serves the ten campuses of the UC system and collaborates both nationally and internationally. The Institute interacts with UC campus humanities centers and with individual faculty to promote collaborative, interdisciplinary humanities research and pedagogy throughout

the UCs and within the larger communities they inhabit. A wide range of conferences, seminars, workshops and other research projects throughout the UC system are also supported by UCHRI. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as part of its Digital Media and Learning portfolio, the Digital Media and Learning Hub is a major initiative of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. DMLcentral.net is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. We think digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one another. Both the UC-wide Humanities Research Institute and the Research Hub are based at the UC Irvine campus.

07/29/2026

Rafeef Ziadah .ziadah (Kings College London) on movement and uprising.

In July 2020, UCHRI gathered Ruth Wilson Gilmore (City University of New York), AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield), Rafeef Ziadah .ziadah (Kings College London), and moderator Avery Gordon (Emerita UC Santa Barbara) in conversation about movement as a vital keyword for understanding our fractious present, emerging out of national and global uprisings in response to the death of George Floyd and other victims of racist violence.

Six years later, this July, we invite you to revisit these urgently and increasingly relevant conversations with us. To watch the full video, visit the link in our bio.

07/20/2026

AbdouMaliq Simone AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield) on movement and migration.

In July 2020, UCHRI gathered Ruth Wilson Gilmore Ruth Wilson Gilmore Girls (City University of New York), AbdouMaliq Simone AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield), Rafeef Ziadah .ziadah (Kings College London), and moderator Avery Gordon (Emerita UC Santa Barbara) in conversation about movement as a vital keyword for understanding our fractious present, emerging out of national and global uprisings in response to the death of George Floyd and other victims of racist violence.

Six years later, this July, we invite you to revisit these urgent and increasingly relevant conversations with us. To watch the full video, visit the link in our bio.

07/13/2026

Story of change with Ruth Wilson Gilmore Ruth Wilson Gilmore Girls (City University of New York).

In July 2020, UCHRI gathered Ruth Wilson Gilmore Ruth Wilson Gilmore Girls (City University of New York), AbdouMaliq Simone AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield), Rafeef Ziadah .ziadah (Kings College London), and moderator Avery Gordon (Emerita UC Santa Barbara) in conversation about movement as a vital keyword for understanding our fractious present, emerging out of national and global uprisings in response to the death of George Floyd and other victims of racist violence.

Six years later, this July, we invite you to revisit these urgently and increasingly relevant conversations with us. To watch the full video, visit the link in our bio.

07/06/2026

This series of poems began as poems on all manner of waves—light waves, radio waves, atmospheric waves, gravitational waves, and sound waves, as well as waves that everyday people may notice walking through their neighborhoods.

This summer, UCHRI is revisiting highlights from our archive. For the full series of poems on Foundry, see the link in our bio.

Image description:
1. Title image with text, “Three poems from ‘Crash, Wave,’ Christina Lux (UC Merced), UCHRI Summer Reads.” Image of river map.
2. Image text: “‘A Bee’s Best Defense’ was inspired by a ScienceNews article on how giant honeybees work together to defend against aerial threats—predators such as hornets. As they sense an approaching dark object moving against the bright sky, they begin to turn, forming a striking shimmer-wave, and sometimes multiple simultaneous shimmer-waves.” Video of illustration of a tree with a bee’s nest on one of its branches, with the poem animated in yellow text.
3. Image text: Poem titled “Rock Dove.” Video of street scene titled, “Aerial Feats in Santiago, Chile.” Video by Christina Lux, editing and sound by Charles Payne.
4. Image of Ancient Courses: Mississippi River Meander Belt by Harold Fisk, Plate 22, Sheet 6. Poem titled “Meander.”
5. Image text: “For more visit Foundry.”

06/29/2026

In Rooted Movements (forthcoming 2026 Syracuse University Press), Amanda Batarseh (UC San Diego) explores Palestinian rootedness and poetics of space. This book was supported in part by UCHRI’s Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop in 2024-25. To learn more about our Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grant, please visit the link in our bio.

1. Image text: Title page reading “UCHRI Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop in 2024-25, Amanda Batarseh (UC San Diego), Manuscript Workshop Book Highlight.” Cover of Batarseh’s book, Rooted Movements.
2. Image text: “From the publisher: Against a colonial logic that often centers displacement as the chief lens through which to understand Palestinian connection to place and spatialized existence, Batarseh argues that Palestinian literature poses Indigeneity as a dialectic relying as much upon rootedness as on ideas of movement.”
3. Image text: “From the publisher: Batarseh develops a methodology of reading Palestinian literature that foregrounds how Palestinians negotiate space and removal through liberatory mobilization and not as a symptom of zionist, colonial violence. Palestine, this place, is not static, enclosed by military boundaries, or frozen in time before or after the Nakba, but generative and looking toward a Palestinian future.”

06/22/2026

In Dante’s Education (2024 Oxford University Press), Filippo Gianferrari (UC Santa Cruz) examines medieval Latin instruction and its shaping force on Dante’s poetics of teaching. This book was supported in part by UCHRI’s Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop in 2024-25. To learn more about our Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grant, please visit the link in our bio.

1. Image text: Title page reading “UCHRI Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop in 2021-22, Filippo Gianferrari (UC Santa Cruz), Manuscript Workshop Book Highlight.” Cover of Gianferrari’s book, Dante’s Education.
2. Image text: “For a nuanced appreciation of Dante’s actual debts to and departures from contemporary Latin education, we need to set his writings next to medieval school texts. What did the poet learn during his initiation to Latin literacy? What lifelong influence did school readings have on his cultural and moral formation?”
3. Image text: “The present study offers the first systematic account of Dante’s interaction with medieval school texts. At another level, the book shows that medieval education exerted a seminal influence on Dante’s poetics throughout his career, and particularly on his attempts to develop a teaching program tailored to the need of lay readers.”

06/15/2026

In A Thousand Paper Cuts (2025), Anjali Nath (University of Toronto Mississauga) considers the paper worlds made and destroyed by US imperialism. This book was supported in part by UCHRI’s Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop in 2021-22. To learn more about our Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grant, please visit the link in our bio.

1. Image text: Title page reading “UCHRI Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop in 2021-22, Anjali Nath (University of Toronto Mississauga), Manuscript Workshop Book Highlight.” Cover of Nath’s book, A Thousand Paper Cuts.
2. Image text: “Why does the Freedom of Information Act—or any other public records act—exist? By which process are formerly classified documents censored or, as the censoring of paper records is known, redacted? Further, what are the visual politics of such redacted documents, living in the public sphere as images that invite shock and speculative awe?”
3. Image text: “Paper is political. From the politics of being documented to the kind of bureaucratic warfare enacted on poor and marginalized people in America through mandated paperwork, to the secret surveillance files against activists, to the administrative violence of state documents for transgender and gender-nonconforming people, paper mediates and makes the world.”

06/08/2026

In Talking Back (2023), Alejandra Dubcovsky (UC Riverside) reconstructs the stories of Native women to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families in the early South. This book was supported in part by UCHRI’s Mid-Career Faculty Manuscript Workshop in 2019-20. To learn more about our Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grant, please visit the link in our bio.

1. Image text: Title page reading “UCHRI Mid-Career Faculty Manuscript Workshop 2019-20, Alejandra Dubcovsky (UC Riverside), Manuscript Workshop Book Highlight.” Cover of Dubcovsky’s book, Talking Back.
2. Image text: “Centering Native women not only helps question the completeness of colonial control but also inserts contingency to the subservience historians have assumed of other women...Women are often everywhere and nowhere in the Spanish records; they are most legible in moments when colonial institutions, such as the church, tried to exert control over their bodies and souls.”
3. Image text: “From the publisher: Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women—Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale—and reveals the formidable women who claimed and used their power, shaping the history of the early South.”

06/03/2026

Earlier this month, UCHRI hosted the Manuscript Workshop and Research Development Program Writing Retreat in Irvine, CA. The retreat consisted of workshops led by LeKeisha Hughes & Andy Etzkorn from , individual advising sessions, and communal writing sessions. Thanks to all of our grantees for participating!

To join the next cohort, stay tuned in the fall for our 2027-26 grants call!

05/27/2026

Earlier this month, UCHRI hosted the UC Underrepresented Scholars Faculty Mentorship Program multicohort spring gathering on the UC Irvine campus. Events included panels on navigating the university as junior faculty and mentoring advice, small group networking, and a hands-on creative/critical workshop.

To join the next cohort, stay tuned in the fall for our 2027-26 grants call!

Special thanks to our panelists Robin Derby (UC Los Angeles), Silpa Mukherjee (UC San Diego), Brenda Nicolas (UC Irvine), Whitney Pirtle (UC Los Angeles), Vicki Ruiz (UC Irvine), Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (UC Irvine), and Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced); group facilitators Rodrigo Lazo (UC Santa Cruz), Kristina Lovato (UC Berkeley), Jorge Leal (UC Riverside), and El Ambrose (UC Riverside); and workshop leader Cathy Thomas (UC Santa Barbara)

Video description: Sequence of video clips depicting panels, discussions, participants taking notes and working with craft supplies, and food.

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