Events

The World Upside Down Conference

The Center for the Humanities will host its biennial conference on the UC Merced Campus and at sites in downtown Merced, CA. The Keynote Speaker will be Marjorie Agosin, the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Spanish at Wellesley...

"The Latino Elite: Ethnic Philanthropists or Ethnic Capitalists?"

Guest speaker Jody Argus Vallejo, Assistant Professor of Sociology from the University of Southern California, will discuss her research. This event is part of the Immigration Speaker Series. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the...

Creative Writing Community Collaboratorium

This all day conference will be hosted on the UC Merced Campus. Event Contact: Dawn Trook For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here.

"God's Wounds! Blasphemy in Early Modern Anglo-America"

Guest Speaker Susan Juster, Professor of History, University of Michigan, will discuss her research. This event is part of the Merced Seminar in the Humanities series. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here.

"Public Anthropology, Billionaires and the Upside-Down Economy"

Guest Speaker Angelique Haugerud, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, will discuss her research. This event is part of our Merced Seminar in the Humanities series. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event...

"A Bag of Tricks: Tricksters and Humor in Early Modern English Literature"

Rhea Riegel, one of the Center for Humanities's Graduate Fellows for 2014-2015, 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...

"Contested Heaven: Immigrant Urban Community Gardens"

Pierrette Hondagnue-Sotelo, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Immigrant Integration at the University of Southern California will discuss his research. This event is part of the Immigration Speaker Series. For our...

"Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora"

Neha Vora, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Lafayette College, will be speaking on her research as part of the Immigration Speaker Series. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here.

"No Horsemen Necessary, Walkers Will Do: New Monsters for a Good Old Fashioned Apocolypse"

Guest speaker David Castillo, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, SUNY Buffalo, will speak on his research. This event is part of the Merced Seminar in the Humanities. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer,...

"Scholarly Book Publishing Today: A Conversation with UC Press Editors"

Join us for a conversation with Kate Marshall, Acquisitions Editor, Maura Roessner, Senior Editor and Naomi Schneider, Executive Editor for the Social Sciences from University of California Press. For our full calendar of events, click here. For...

Write! Look! Listen! "Revisiting America's Concentration Camps" with Poet Laureate Dr. Lawson Inada

Oregon's 5th Poet Laureate Dr. Lawson Inada will present his work on the legacy of the Japanese-American internment camps during World War Two. Please join the Center for Humanities for a reception following his talk.

"On Being a Public Intellectual"

Professor David Palumbo-Liu will host a Q&A session. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here.

Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: "Rationality, Racism and Imagining Social Justice"

Professor David Palumbo-Liu of Stanford University will take part in our semesterly Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here.

"A New Vocabulary for a New Age: An Argument for a Counter-Morality, Among Other Things"

David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, will take part in a seminar. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here.

"Breaking Historiographical Boundaries: Early Modern Persinate Universal Chronicles

Associate Professor Sholeh Quinn will present some of her research. This event is part of the Merced Seminar in the Humanities. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here.