Events

"Collective Identity, Immigrant Organizing and Panethnicity in the U.S."

Guest Speaker Dina Okamoto, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University, will discuss her research. This event is part of the Immigration Speaker series. For our full...

Iberian Studies Symposium

The Iberian Studies Symposium is a two-day event that will be hosted on the UC Merced campus. The event is organized by UC Comparative Iberian Studies. Event Contact: Cristian Ricci. For our full calendar of events, click here.

"They Have Become Turks! Anti-Hapsburg Resistance and Turkification in Seventeenth Century Hungary"

Guest speaker Georg Michels, Professor of History at UC Riverside, will discuss his research. This event is part of the Merced Seminar in the Humanities series. For our full calendar of events, click here.

"Bonding Out: Judicial Decision-Making in Immigration Bond Hearings"

Guest speaker Caitlin Patler, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow from UC Irvine, will discuss her research. This event is part of the Immigration Speaker series. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click ...

Blurring the Border: Deporting Denizens in the 21st Century

This two day Interdisciplinary Conference on Immigration, Deportation, and Citizenship in the United States will be hosted on the UC Merced Campus. More information here. Event Contact: Zulema Valdez For our full calendar of events, click...

Grant Writing Workshop

Guest speaker Barbara Walker, Director of Research Development for Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts at UC Santa Barbara, will discuss the grant writing process. For our full calendar of events, click here. For the event flyer, click here...

"The World Turned Upside Down: Changes in Representations of the World in Medieval Eurasian Maps"

Guest Speaker Hyunhee Park, Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 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...

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.