Events

"Revising Your Dissertation and Publishing Your First Book"

UC Press Workshop with UC Press Editors. The Center for the Humanities is excited to be hosting two editors from UC Press for a workshop on May 5, 2016. This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division. Please register online by April 29, 2016. *...

"Write to Change the World"

An OpEd Project workshop with The OpEd Project staff. *Faculty can apply online by February 1, 2016. To learn more about "Write to Change the World", click here. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer...

"Space and Power: Water Policy as Placemaking in California's Central Valley"

Dorie Perez, Doctoral Candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities from UC Merced and one of the Center for the Humanities' Graduate Fellows for 2015-2016, will discuss her current research.  This event is part of our Merced...

"Waterscapes and Identities: South Asia's Colonial Legacy in Cinema"

Aditi Chandra, Assistant Professor of Art History from UC Merced, will discuss her current research.  This event is part of our Merced Seminar in the Humanities series. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the...

"Ecological Aesthetics in the Little Ice Age: Water as Limited Commodity in Early Modern North India"

Sugata Ray, Assistant Professor of South Asian Art and Architecture from University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his current research.  This event is part of our Merced Seminar in the Humanities series. For our full...

"Dynamic Quantification and Visualization of Language"

Rick Dale, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science from UC Merced, will discuss his current research.  This event is part of our Brown Bag Talks. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here...

"Plastic Currents: Science, Circulation and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

Kim De Wolff, UC Merced Center for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow for 2015-2017, will discuss her current research.  This event is part of our Merced Seminar in the Humanities series. For our full calendar of events, click...

"Watershed Art + Science: A Vernal Pools Reserve Adventure"

Kim De Wolff, UC Merced Center for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow for 2015-2017, will conduct a public humanities workshop.  *Register by March 5 here. This workshop is a free, family-friendly event. Children must be...

"Agwe, Captain of the Immamou: The Patron Spirit of Haitian Fishermen"

Patrick Wilkinson, Doctoral Candidate in World Cultures from UC Merced and one of the Center for Humanities' Graduate Fellows for 2015-2016, will discuss his current research.  This event is part of our Merced Seminar in...

Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: "The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities"

Doris Sommer, Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University and Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, will present for our semesterly Distinguished Lecture...

"Q+A on Bilingualism"

Join us for a discussion of the Introduction of the book Bilingual Aesthetics organized by the UC Merced Linguistics Initiative featuring Doris Sommer. Doris Sommer is the Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University and Ira and...

"Formulating a Field: The Role of the Indian Ocean in Asian-African Studies and East Africa"

Anneeth Hundle, Assistant Professor of Anthropology from UC Merced, will discuss her current research.  This event is part of our Merced Seminar in the Humanities series. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the...

"Violence and Coloniality: Racialization and Viscerality in Latin America's New Indigenous Narrative"

Arturo Arias, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Professor in the Humanities from UC Merced, will discuss his current research.  This event is part of our Brown Bag Talks. Inauguration of the MacArthur Foundation...

"We Are Scottsboro Boys: Hideo Noda's Visual Rhetoric of Transracial Solidarity"

ShiPu Wang, Associate Professor of Art History from UC Merced, will discuss his current research.  This event is part of our Brown Bag Talks. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here...

"Writing in Water"

Angela Zito, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies from New York University, will discuss her current research.  This event is part of our Merced Seminar in the Humanities series. For our full calendar of...

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