Prof. Johanna Drucker, Department of Information Studies at UCLA, will be the final speaker for the 2012-13 Digital Humanities Lunch Series. Her topic will be "What is the Humanistic Method in Digital Humanities?"

Friday, May 17, 12:00 -1:30 p.m.
Seuss Room, Geisel Library

The UCEC offers intensive training in educational evaluation to UC graduate students. Over a period of three days participants will attend method, theory, and skill-based workshops in educational evaluation conducted by nationally recognized UC scholars. Additionally, graduate students will have the opportunity to share their individual research interests and receive feedback from UC professors and other graduate students. For more information see http://education.ucsb.edu/ucec/Institute.html

Adam Schneider, Ph.D. Candidate in the UCSD Department of Anthropology, has been awarded a Junior Residential Fellowship at Koç University for 2013-14. This nine-month residency, given to candidates for dissertation work in archaeology, history, art history, or other related fields, will enable him to advance his research on Early Bronze Age climate change and its potential impacts upon the ancient peoples of what is today southeastern Turkey.

FemTechNet stands for Feminist Infrastructures and Technocultures (IT): Cross-Disciplinary Legacies and Future, which is an assembly of UC scholars working across science and technology studies, film and media studies, sci-art, digital humanities, informatics, and critical media practice. This conference begins with two sessions tonight, April 18, and will continue over Friday and Saturday in the Structural and Materials Engineering building (SME).

For more information see https://quote.ucsd.edu/feministit

The UCSD Department of Philosophy will host Oliver Pooley, University of Oxford, speaking on "Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time."

His colloquium will take place from 4:00 -­ 6:00 p.m. in the Seminar Room, H&SS 7077. Reception to follow.

Abstract: Is the passage of time compatible with relativistic physics? According to one view, the answer is yes, because (i) time's passage is simply the successive occurrence of events and (ii) relativistic spacetimes contain events occurring in succession. This view (perhaps rightly) does not take objective passage seriously. What if time's passage is taken to consist in future events becoming momentarily present before moving ever further into the past? On a second view, this notion of passage is compatible with relativity because relativity is compatible with a global Now and a metaphysically preferred foliation of spacetime. This view does not take relativity seriously.

I will explore the prospects for views that seek to take both passage and relativity seriously. In particular, I will consider whether Belnap's machinery of Branching Spacetimes allows for a relativistic generalisation of views that understand temporal passage in terms of an objectively open future. On the way, I will review recent work by Brad Skow (on a relativistic version of the Moving Spotlight theory) and John Earman (on relativistic versions of Growing Block views of time).

Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Departments of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will deliver the 2011-12 UCSD Science Studies Program Student's Choice Lecture on Tuesday, January 14. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. in the San Diego Supercomputer Center Auditorium. (http://www.sdsc.edu/about/Visitorinfo.html)

Lecture Topic: "Cosmopolitical Critters: Companion Species, SF, and Staying with the Trouble"

Doing STS through SF (string figures, science fact, speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, science fiction, so far), "Cosmopolitical Critters" asks how and why the Anthropocene and Multispecies Becoming-with emerge as foci of attention at the same time and for many different knowledge communities. Working in close contact with artists, scholars, and biologists, the lecture argues for sympoesis and multispecies cosmopolitics as critical approaches to staying with the trouble of rampant extinctions and exterminations and to working toward modest recuperation and flourishing on terra.

Donna Haraway is the author of numerous works including the classic essay “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”. A leading theorist of the relationships between people, other organisms, and machines, her work having incited debate in fields as varied as primatology, philosophy, developmental biology, art history, cognitive science, and feminist studies.

Contact: Wendy Salazar, ssadmin@ucsd.edu, 534-0491

Research Opportunity Funds are available to help pilot or seed new projects that can demonstrate a strong systemwide benefit to UC research and enhance UC’s ability to compete for funding, advance research discoveries, support innovative graduate student research, inform public policy or otherwise impact the lives of Californians. Projects must have strong campus support and a clear path for development into long-term, self-sustaining programs. Funding is open to all fields, and may be used for workshops or meetings, proposal development, public or industry outreach, or other projects that can demonstrate system-wide benefit to UC research.

For more information, see http://www.ucop.edu/research-graduate-studies/opportunities-and-initiatives/research-opportunity-fund.html

Each month the University of Chicago Press is releasing one book as a featured e-book which can be downloaded for free. Now through the end of March 2013 the monthly book is The Smoking Book by Professor Lesley Stern of UC San Diego's Visual Arts Department.

To download, go to http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

For information about Prof. Stern, see http://visarts.ucsd.edu/faculty/lesley-stern

Our Center research group "Something From Nothing: Audacious Speculations in Art, Science & Entrepreneurialism" is collaborating with UCSD's Sixth College to host a performance/presentation event on April 12. Those interested in presenting on their work (5 minutes or less) should contact the group to submit their idea.

For more information, see http://humctr.ucsd.edu/events/cfps/

The fourth Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) is jointly organized by the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture (RICH), Hanyang University, Seoul, together with the Graduate Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Research Academy Leipzig and will take place at the Leipzig University, 16-19 September 2013, under the title of "New Regionalism." We welcome applications from current PhD students as well as young researchers at the early stages of their postdoctoral career of all fields who are interested in the phenomenon of new regionalisms and currently conducting research on topics related to this topic. Submissions are due by April 1.

For more information: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ral/gchuman/en/events/summer-school/4th-futh-xi-summer-school-new-regionalisms/

The Bancroft Library Study Awards of $18,000 each for UC graduate students, as well as the Arthur J. Quinn Memorial Fellowship and other awards, are given by the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. The approaching deadline for the award competition is Monday, February 4.

More information available at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/fellowships.html

Held at UCHRI in Irvine on February 21st and 22nd, The Studio Jam is an intensive brainstorming session designed to generate ideas and collaborations, build interdisciplinary teams, and develop proposals for the Humanities Studio. The deadline for the Letter of Interest to request a spot at the Studio Jam has been extended to January 22.

For details see http://ridaga.uchri.org/studio-jam/ or contact Kelly Anne Brown, Research Projects Manager, at kbrown@hri.uci.edu.

Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Departments of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will deliver the 2011-12 UCSD Science Studies Program Student's Choice Lecture on Tuesday, January 14. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. in the San Diego Supercomputer Center Auditorium. (http://www.sdsc.edu/about/Visitorinfo.html)

Lecture Topic: "Cosmopolitical Critters: Companion Species, SF, and Staying with the Trouble"

Doing STS through SF (string figures, science fact, speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, science fiction, so far), "Cosmopolitical Critters" asks how and why the Anthropocene and Multispecies Becoming-with emerge as foci of attention at the same time and for many different knowledge communities. Working in close contact with artists, scholars, and biologists, the lecture argues for sympoesis and multispecies cosmopolitics as critical approaches to staying with the trouble of rampant extinctions and exterminations and to working toward modest recuperation and flourishing on terra.

Donna Haraway is the author of numerous works including the classic essay “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”. A leading theorist of the relationships between people, other organisms, and machines, her work having incited debate in fields as varied as primatology, philosophy, developmental biology, art history, cognitive science, and feminist studies.

Contact: Wendy Salazar, ssadmin@ucsd.edu, 534-0491

135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine, Jan. 23, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

John Seely Brown, Cathy Davidson, Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Andrew J. Policano, and Larry Smarr will join in a panel discussion of "The University We Are For" and "Making The Humanities Count". The event will be webcast live.

For more information see http://uchri.org/events/public-not-public-making-the-humanities-count/

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, February 23, 2013

This year’s conference of the Languages Graduate Student Association at the University of Connecticut aims to investigate the development and changes in the study and teaching of the humanities. Digital humanities as a new field are emerging, public humanities offer a different career path and interdisciplinary work opens up the field of traditional studies in the humanities.
We welcome contributions across all disciplines; including literature, film, languages, political science, human rights, science, history, cultural studies, music, fine arts, gender, psychology and cognitive science.
See http://humctr.ucsd.edu/events/cfps/

Philip Bourne, recently appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Industry Alliances at UCSD, has written this list of rules for grantwriting which apply to any discipline:

Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants

The University of California Humanities Research Institute has released calls for annual rounds of funding for faculty and graduate students interested in starting or participating in collaborative scholarship efforts in the UC system. Project funding is available for

  - UCHRI Public Humanities Project Grants - due Nov. 7
  - UCHRI Conference Grants -due Nov. 7
  - UCHRI Seminar Grants - due Nov. 7
  - UCHRI Residential Research Group Proposals - due Dec. 12

In addition, topic-specific opportunities are available (all due Dec. 12):

  - Fellowships to support participation in UCHRI's Spring 2014 Residential Research Group on “Urban Ecologies”
  - Travel expenses and $1000 of research funding for a working group on "The Humanities and Work: The Next Generation"
  - Hybrid Working Group/Residential Research Group on "The Work of the Humanities/The Humanities as Work" - course replacement plus $15,000 in group funds

For more information, see our descriptions at http://humctr.ucsd.edu/funding-opportunities/extramural-funding/ or go directly to UCHRI's Funding page.

Congratulations to Christian Wuthrich, head of our research group on The Fundamental Nature of Time and Change, on receiving the 2012 Lauener Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers, awarded by the Lauener Foundation for Analytical Philosophy.

Congratulations to two of our research group faculty who recently received Hellman fellowships for young faculty at UCSD: Joseph Hankins (Anthropology) and K. Wayne Yang (Ethnic Studies).

Marisa Brandt, doctoral candidate in Communication and Science Studies at UCSD, is one of two graduate students in California to receive this year's Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship. The Scholarship is awarded in the amount of up to $20,000 for one year for research and living expenses. Marisa Brandt presented her work on "War, Trauma, and Technologies of the Self: The Making of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy" on June 8 at the Center for the Humanities. We congratulate her on her award.

Congratulations to the UC Fellows for 2012-13:

Frank Biess in the UCSD Department of History has been awarded a UC President's Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities to support his research on fear and democracy in postwar Germany.

Maiya Murphy in the UCSD Department of Theatre & Dance has received a UC Graduate Fellowship in support of her work on the relationship between cognitive science and the Lecoq system of physical performance training.

Charles Nick Saenz in the UCSD Department of History has received a UC Graduate Fellowship in support of his research on the local nature of government in 18th- and 19th-century Spain.

On April 21st almost 200 scholars and community members attended the second annual gathering of the UC Society of Fellows in the Humanities, hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research at the Museum of Art and History in downtown Santa Cruz.

More: http://uchumanitiesforum.org/2012/04/30/2nd-annual-society-of-fellows-meeting-what-are-we-doing-when-we-do-the-humanities/

The UCSD Center for Humanities has awarded 12 grants for our 2012 Faculty and Graduate Student Research Groups. The research groups convene scholars from the humanities, arts, engineering, and science and cover a wide array of interdisciplinary concerns. This year's research groups will question the relationships that the arts, humanities, and science have to social activism, political civility, pedagogy, and democracy; grapple with ramifications of technology that render inert objects more life-like as well as change our quantifiable and aesthetic understanding of the cosmos; hold conversations and contestations in Black and Queer Studies; look at individual and macro-transformations across spatial and temporal borders; and challenge themselves to better understand the nature of meaning and time. More information on each group can be found under the research tab.  

The American University of Beirut and UCHRI offer the Seminar in Critical Theory VIII, "Living in a Critical Condition:/Spaces of Resistance". Call for proposals to be announced in January. SECTVIII will explore the spatialities and speeds of resistance to dominant and exclusionary power structures, how spaces are shaped by and produced through various forms and temporalities of resistance, and how they can enable or impede resistance. Focusing on the current practices of resistance in Arab cities and reaching relationally and comparatively beyond, we will investigate forms of resistance, inscriptions of resistance, and the impact of commemorative sites and spatial imaginaries as resistance. http://www.uchri.org/Initiatives/SECT/