The Center organizes and co-sponsors conferences and symposia throughout the year. To apply for conference funding, click here. Examples of current and past conferences organized by our faculty include:
Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference
Precarity and Possibility: Imaginings of a New Academy
March 16-17, 2018
Water: Ways of Knowing and Being
April 7-8, 2017
Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference
The Stories We Tell: Forceful Discourses and the Veracity of Narrative(s)
April 22, 2017
Organized by Professors Jan Goggans, Katherine Brokaw, Nigel Hatton and Interdiciplinary Graduate Students Marilee Shaw, Trevor Jackson, Anna Gurevitz, Scott Nicolay and Ashley Metzer
March 18, 2017
The Bridge is History: Water and the Humanities
Public Conference and Museum Exhibition
Organized by Ruth Mostern, Professor of History, UC Merced and Rina Faletti, Water Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, UC Merced.
October 15, 2017
Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference
Organized by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the UC Merced Graduate Division.
April 23, 2016
Inaugural Interdisciplinary Queer Studies Symposium
Organized by Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Group. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the UC Merced Graduate Division.
April 9, 2016
Southeast Asian American Legacies: 40 Years After the End of the Vietnam War
Organized by Ma Vang, Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced, and Alisak Sanavongsay and Seng Vang. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.
December 4, 2015
The World Upside Down Conference
hosted by the Center for the Humanities at UC Merced and organized by the Center's Fellows
April 10-11, 2015
Iberian Studies Symposium
May 1-2, 2015
Blurring the Border: Deporting Denizens in the 21st Century
April 17-18, 2015
Creative Writing Community Collaboratorium
April 4, 2015
Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
Call for Papers
Organized by faculty members Ignacio López-Calvo and Cristián Ricci.
30 Years of Mass Incarceration: Where Do We Go from Here? (2014)
Bilingualism Conference (2014)
"400 Years of Literature and History in the United States: Gaspar de Villagra's Historia de la Nueva México." (2010)
