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height='82' width='82' decoding='async'/> </div> <div class="fusion-author-info"> <h3 class="fusion-author-title vcard"> About <span class="fn">Jessica Salas</span> </h3> This author has not yet filled in any details.<br />So far Jessica Salas has created 115 blog entries. </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div class="fusion-author-social clearfix"> <div class="fusion-author-tagline"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="posts-container" class="fusion-blog-archive fusion-blog-layout-medium-wrapper fusion-clearfix"> <div class="fusion-posts-container fusion-blog-layout-medium fusion-blog-pagination fusion-blog-no-images " data-pages="3"> <article id="post-16662" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-16662 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/uchri2024/">UCHRI Awards 2024-25</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024-25 UCHRI grants! Congratulations to the following UCR faculty: ✪ MC Faculty Working Groups Crystal Baik, Gender and Sexuality Studies Reparative Memories: Communities in Crisis and Archival Care ✪ Engaging Humanities Grant Elyse Ambrose, Department for the Study of Religion and Department of Black Study Black Trans Ethical Worldmaking Lab ✪ Graduate Student Dissertation Support Iliana Cuellar, Comparative Literature PhD Student Palimpsexts and Body Doubles: Autotheory in the Films of Agnès Varda, Albertina Carri, Laetitia Masson, and Lina [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2024-05-07T15:51:02-07:00</span><span>May 7, 2024</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-16642" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-16642 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/cisawards/">Center for Ideas & Society Awards 2024-25</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Congratulations to the following Center for Ideas & Society award winners! ✪ CONFERENCE AWARD Eaton Speculative Fiction Conference: Reimagining the Archive andré carrington (English), Loren Barbour (English), Chelsea-Mae Yuipco (Media & Cultural Studies), K Persinger (Media & Cultural Studies), and Liza Wemakor (English) The 2020s thus far have been defined by numerous and often interrelated crises, which have prompted widespread conversation on the urgent need to imagine and implement better, different, and innovative solutions for the future. Influenced by feminist, queer, decolonial, and [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2024-04-10T16:06:07-07:00</span><span>April 3, 2024</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-16434" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-16434 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-directors-corner category-news tag-jeanette-kohl"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/directorsmusings/">Director’s Musings</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> By Jeanette Kohl Dear colleagues and friends of the CIS, As we all find ourselves in the midst of the fall quarter already, I write to you with some updates and good news from the Center. I am happy to announce three new initiatives in the Being Human event stream, all of which are part of our efforts to create a robust cross-disciplinary discussion platform, emphasize the role of the Arts and Humanities in our university, and increase international exchange. Thanks to the continued [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2023-10-24T16:58:31-07:00</span><span>October 24, 2023</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/directors-corner/" rel="category tag">Director's Corner</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/jeanette-kohl/" rel="tag">Jeanette Kohl</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-16418" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-16418 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-directors-corner category-dylan category-news tag-dylan-rodriguez"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/oct2023/">Director’s update: October 2023</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> By Dylan Rodríguez Dear UCR colleagues, students, and staff, It is an honor to begin my third year as Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. I am excited about the Fall 2023 schedule of events for the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream, including a lecture and performance by globally renowned scholar, lawyer, and activist Dr. Ana Flauzina (UCR Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023) on October 30-31 (in person) and “On Violence: Fall 2023 Experimental Study Sequence” (online). Clickable link to participate in the “On [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2023-10-23T09:20:22-07:00</span><span>October 23, 2023</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/directors-corner/" rel="category tag">Director's Corner</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/dylan/" rel="category tag">Dylan Rodríguez</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/dylan-rodriguez/" rel="tag">Dylan Rodríguez</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-16215" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-16215 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/2023conferences/">2023-24 Conferences & Symposia Awards</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> The Center is pleased to announce the following 2023-24 Conferences & Symposia award winners: A Panoply of Colors, A World of Materials: Global Connections of Early Modern Dyes Spring 2024 Yong Cho (History of Art), Jody Benjamin (History), Savannah Esquivel (History of Art), Fatima Quraishi (History of Art) This UCR conference will bring together a leading group of scholars studying dyes and related materials to shed light upon the vast and entangled networks that constituted a global world of colors. While this conference [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2023-07-05T13:49:11-07:00</span><span>July 5, 2023</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-16172" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-16172 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/2023uchri/">2023-24 UC Humanities Research Institute Award Winners</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Congratulations to the following UCR faculty and students for being awarded a UCHRI grant! ✪ Multi-Campus Graduate Student Working Group Daisy Herrera (History) - Refusing to be Refugees: Mapping Sites of Chicanx/Latinx Defiance and Activism in California ✪ Conference Grant Anusha Kedhar (Dance) - Embodying Caste, Re-casteing the Body ✪ UC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship Elyse Ambrose (Religious Studies and Black Study) Courtney Baker (English) Jasmin Young (Ethnic Studies) ✪ Dissertation Support Grant Samarth Singhal (English) - Artistic Agency in the Contemporary Indian Anglophone Picturebook </p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2023-06-01T10:46:28-07:00</span><span>May 31, 2023</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-15882" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-15882 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-directors-corner category-dylan category-news tag-dylan-rodriguez"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/feb2023/">Director’s update: February 2023</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> By Dylan Rodríguez It continues to be a privilege and pleasure to participate in shaping the work of the Center for Ideas and Society. I trust that this brief correspondence will help encourage you to attend, participate in, and organize activities that reflect the experimental, inter/trans/counter/anti-disciplinary, creative character of the Center. As always, please feel free to reach out to me if you have ideas or questions: dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com Success! AFD Grant update I'm happy to report that the Faculty Commons Project will continue to [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2023-02-06T09:18:25-08:00</span><span>February 6, 2023</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/directors-corner/" rel="category tag">Director's Corner</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/dylan/" rel="category tag">Dylan Rodríguez</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/dylan-rodriguez/" rel="tag">Dylan Rodríguez</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-15660" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-15660 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-directors-corner category-news tag-jeanette-kohl"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/postcardfromhamburg/">Postcard from Hamburg</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Dear colleagues and friends of the CIS, I hope you have all had a good start into the new academic year! My CIS letter today comes from Germany, where I am in residency at the Institute for Advanced Study in Hamburg (HIAS) until June 2023. It is a trip down memory lane for me. My mother and her family are from Hamburg, and as a child I spent many summers here and on the beaches of the nearby North Sea. I thought I’d share [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2022-10-27T11:03:41-07:00</span><span>October 27, 2022</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/directors-corner/" rel="category tag">Director's Corner</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/jeanette-kohl/" rel="tag">Jeanette Kohl</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-15231" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-15231 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-directors-corner category-news tag-dylan-rodriguez"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/collective-work/">A year of collective work</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Colleagues, it has been a privilege to serve as Co-Director of the Center this year. I have taken special joy in the numerous collaborations reflected in the collective work of the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream, which I proudly initiated in Fall 2021. As the nationwide attacks against Critical Race Theory continue to saturate the politics and institutional culture of K-12 schooling, it has also been distressing to observe how overlapping and related forms of intellectual reaction and academic repression have crept into public university [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2022-06-07T13:05:03-07:00</span><span>June 7, 2022</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/directors-corner/" rel="category tag">Director's Corner</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/dylan-rodriguez/" rel="tag">Dylan Rodríguez</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-15226" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-15226 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-directors-corner category-news tag-jeanette-kohl"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/changes-and-opportunities/">A year of changes and opportunities</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Dear colleagues and friends, At last, summer is around the corner – after what felt like an unusually long and demanding academic year. We did get a lot done at the Center for Ideas and Society, with the revamping of our internal structure, two new event streams designed by Dylan and me with Katharine’s input, and a variety of activities on zoom and in person, most notably perhaps our two impromptu zoom events at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, attended by a [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2022-06-07T13:04:27-07:00</span><span>June 7, 2022</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/directors-corner/" rel="category tag">Director's Corner</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/jeanette-kohl/" rel="tag">Jeanette Kohl</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-14704" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-14704 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-directors-corner category-news tag-jeanette-kohl"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/war-in-europe/">War in Europe</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> by Jeanette Kohl, Center for Ideas and Society Co-Director In the summer of 2011, I wrote an article on Vladimir Putin for the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Dmitry Medvedev was still president of Russia, with Putin, then prime minister, eagerly waiting in the wings. His aspirations to take over power in the world’s largest country were unmistakable. In my article, I looked at the ways in which Putin made use of historical image types of military prowess, sexualized male power, and the Machiavellian [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2022-02-28T09:21:07-08:00</span><span>February 28, 2022</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/directors-corner/" rel="category tag">Director's Corner</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/jeanette-kohl/" rel="tag">Jeanette Kohl</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-14248" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-14248 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news tag-dylan-rodriguez tag-jeanette-kohl"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/from-the-directors/">From the Directors</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Dear CHASS community, colleagues, friends: It would have been nice to start our “monthly musings” from the Center for Ideas and Society with a heartfelt “Welcome back to campus after the holiday break!” As things stand, we might have to wait a while before we can all meet, teach, and talk in person again. In the meantime, we all the Center for Ideas and Society do wish you a happy, healthy, and productive year 2022, looking forward to many new and stimulating collaborations! Dylan, [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2023-05-25T12:57:51-07:00</span><span>January 12, 2022</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/dylan-rodriguez/" rel="tag">Dylan Rodríguez</a>, <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/jeanette-kohl/" rel="tag">Jeanette Kohl</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13951" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13951 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/uchriaward2021-2/">UC Humanities Research Institute Award Winners for 2021-22 | Part 2</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Congratulations to the following UCR faculty and students for being awarded a UCHRI grant for the year 2021-22! Brittany Carlson, English, UC Riverside (Re)mediating Math Anxieties with The Narrative, the Ephemeral, and the Visual, 1830-1930 ✪ Graduate Student Dissertation Support Grant Jorge Leal, History, UC Riverside The Discursive Power of Rock en español and the Desire for Democracy ✪ Podcast Support Grants María del Rosario Acosta López, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside On the (In)audible in Art: Tracing the Sound of lo inaudito in Latin American [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-05-27T16:40:17-07:00</span><span>May 27, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13925" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13925 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/packer/">In Focus: Melina Packer</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Melina Packer Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender & Sexuality Studies (2020-2022) Faculty Mentor: Jade Sasser Top three texts I would take to a desert island: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Mating by Norman Rush Favorite Activity: Hiking with my dog Something people might be amazed to know about me: I am deathly afraid of swimming. A ‘famous’ scholar I would love to meet: Michelle Murphy Theme song: “I Want to Break Free” - Queen URL [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-05-12T08:32:56-07:00</span><span>May 10, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13909" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13909 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/mendoza/">In Focus: Claudia Holguín Mendoza</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Claudia Holguín Mendoza Department: Hispanic Studies Rank: Assistant Professor # of years at UCR: 2.5 years Top three texts I would take to a desert island: “Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico: Photographs,” “The Tao Te Ching,” and “The Dispossessed” by Ursula Le Guin. Favorite things to do: Hiking and gardening. Something people might be amazed to know about me: I can cook very tasty food. An “adventure” I am looking forward to, post-pandemic… Traveling! Theme songs: Betty Davis as an inspiration. Learn more about Claudia's work [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-04-14T08:22:05-07:00</span><span>April 13, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13893" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13893 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/uchriaward2021/">UC Humanities Research Institute Award Winners for 2021-22</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Congratulations to the following UCR faculty and students for being awarded a UCHRI grant for the year 2021-22! Melissa Wilcox, Religious Studies, UC Riverside Queer and Trans Studies in Religion in the 2020s: Defining the State of the Field ✪ Conference Grants Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Dance, UC Riverside ICR Pachappa: Navigating Place ✪ Conference Grants María Regina Firmina-Castillo, Dance, UC Riverside ICR Pachappa: Navigating Place ✪ Conference Grants Grecia Perez, Anthropology, UC Riverside California Economies Collective ✪ Multicampus Graduate Student Working Groups </p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-03-31T13:53:31-07:00</span><span>March 31, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13830" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13830 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/lo/">In Focus: David Lo</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> David Lo Advisory Committee Member, Center for Ideas and Society Department: Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine Rank: Distinguished Professor, and Senior Associate Dean of Research # of years at UCR: 14 Top three texts I would take to a desert island: The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson. (it’s a history of modern molecular biology); Joy of Cooking, Rombauer, Becker (enough said); A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell (it’s fun for triggering internal arguments with the book) Favorite thing(s): Anything SciFi/ComicCon, and [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-02-23T13:37:57-08:00</span><span>February 22, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13818" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13818 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/nida/">In Focus: Worku Nida</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Worku Nida Developing African Studies Initiative Participant Department: Anthropology Rank: Assistant Teaching Professor of Anthropology # of years at UCR: This is my 5th year. Top three texts I would take to a desert island: 1) Mediocre, by Ijeoma Oluo, which I am reading now; 2) A Promised Land, by Barack Obama, 3) WE WANT TO DO MORE THAN SURVIVE, by Bettina Love. Favorite activities: Tennis in sport, music (Ethio-jazz, various ethnic music), love museums and open-markets, walking, kitfo (Ethiopian dish) Something people might [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-02-17T15:59:37-08:00</span><span>February 17, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13795" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13795 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/merlin/">In Focus: Bella Merlin</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Bella Merlin Advisory Committee Member, Center for Ideas and Society Department: Theatre Film and Digital Production Rank: Professor # of years at UCR: 7 Top three texts I would take to a desert island: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (because I haven't read them all yet); The Toe-Rags by Daphne Anderson (a poignant memoir of growing up in Southern Rhodesia by my husband Miles's mother); The God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupat by the fifteenth-century saint Annamayya (these poems wring my heart every time). Favorite things with favorite beings: Walking with my husband, [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-02-04T10:09:39-08:00</span><span>February 1, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13753" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13753 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/cogswell/">In Focus: Thomas Cogswell</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Thomas Cogswell Department: History Rank: Distinguished Professor # of years at UCR: 21 Top three texts I would take to a desert island: Robert Caro's volumes on Lyndon Johnson, Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, and Melvin Bragg's podcast In Our Time. Favorite foods: A toss up. A nice Mysore Masala Dosa or Korean Tofu Hotpot. Something people might be amazed to know about me …. I love exploring cities, one neighborhood at a time. An “adventure” I am looking forward to: Returning to the Hoover Wilderness in [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-27T13:35:54-08:00</span><span>January 26, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13691" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13691 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/vint/">In Focus: Sherryl Vint</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Sherryl Vint Department: English/Media and Cultural Studies Rank: Professor # of years at UCR: 8 Top three texts I would take to a desert island: There is no way I could pick just three. It would depend on the day and the project and so would always change. Favorite entertainment: I love films, not just sf films, but films of many genres, periods, and countries. An “adventure” I am looking forward to, post-pandemic…I’d like to say travel, and certainly I love to visit ruins [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-26T16:37:38-08:00</span><span>January 20, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13659" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13659 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/schwitzgebel/">In Focus: Eric Schwitzgebel</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Eric Schwitzgebel Department: Philosophy Rank: Professor # of years at UCR: 23 (~44% of my life) Top three texts I would take to a desert island: The collected Borges, Montaigne, and Zhuangzi. See my Five Books interview on the philosophers of wonder! Favorite activity: Long walks in beautiful places. Or maybe, during a lecture, the well-crafted pause -- that silent moment when the attention of the audience slowly gathers. Something people might be amazed to know about me: I doubt that anything about me would [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-13T09:10:14-08:00</span><span>January 11, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13639" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13639 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/2020-elliott-award/">2020 Emory Elliott Award Winner</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Victoria Reyes' book Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines is the winner of the 2020 Emory Elliott Award. For more information about her work, we are sharing an updated version of her 2019 interview in our In Focus series. A big congratulations to Victoria! *** In Focus Victoria Reyes Participant, Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies, Contested Histories Seminar Department: Sociology Rank: Assistant Professor # of years at UCR: Entering 4th year at UCR but 3rd year on campus because during my first year [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-06T10:31:12-08:00</span><span>January 11, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13626" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13626 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/baik/">In Focus: Crystal Baik</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Crystal Baik Mellon Second Project Fellow Department: Gender and Sexuality Studies Rank: Associate Professor (first year as a tenured professor) # of years at UCR: this is my 7th year at UCR Top three texts I would take to a desert island: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider; Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart; Lisa Yoneyama, Hiroshima Traces. Favorite activity: Since the pandemic, I’ve taken up birding and 풍물 (poongmul/Korean drumming). Something people might be amazed to know about me: I’m an identical twin and my partner is [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-06T10:35:58-08:00</span><span>January 5, 2021</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13600" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13600 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/rangarajan/">In Focus: Padma Rangarajan</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p>Padma Rangarajan Mellon Humanities Fellow Department: English Rank: Associate Professor # of years at UCR: 3 Top three texts I would take to a desert island: The Mahabaratha, A Time of Gifts, David Copperfield. Favorite shows to stream: Sci-fi shows from the ‘80’s and ‘90’s. I love Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, all that stuff. Something people might be amazed to know about me: My father pierced my nose. It took him three tries. An “adventure” I am looking forward to, post-pandemic: Hugs. All [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2020-12-22T12:29:45-08:00</span><span>December 16, 2020</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-13306" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-13306 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/uchri-awards-2020/">UC Humanities Research Institute Award Winners for 2020-21</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> A banner year for UCR in awards from the UC Humanities Research Institute! UCR students and faculty won 10 awards including two of the most competitive awards in the system: the President’s Faculty Research Fellowship, won by Gloria Kim (Media and Cultural Studies), and the White Graduate Student Scholarship in Medicine & Humanities won by Jared Smith (Philosophy). Kudos to all applicants and this year’s awardees! ✪ Multicampus Graduate Student Working Group XIX to XXI: Bringing Spanish language in California to the forefront Álvaro Gonzelz [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2020-06-24T14:13:30-07:00</span><span>June 17, 2020</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12949" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12949 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/2020-21-awards/">Congratulations to the following Center for Ideas & Society award winners!</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Conference Awards ¡Que Viva Mexico! – Transnational Film and Audiovisual Art Paulo Chagas (Music) Nikolay Maslov (Culver Center of the Arts) Co-Productions: Literature, Media and Diaspora in the Japanese Transpacific Anne McKnight (Comparative Literature) John Kim (Comparative Literature) Setsu Shigematsu (Media & Cultural Studies) Traise Yamamoto (English) Catherine Gudis (History) (Re)Draft Manuscript Revision Workshops Undocumented Desires: Fantasies of Latino Male Sexuality Richard Rodriguez (Media & Cultural Studies) The 'Falls' of Rome: Transformations of the City in Late Antiquity (270-603 CE) Michele Salzman (History) Interdisciplinary [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2020-04-28T09:57:17-07:00</span><span>April 21, 2020</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12858" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12858 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/online-workshop/">Success! Book manuscript workshop hosted online</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> The Faculty Commons Latinx & Latin American Studies Workgroup recently hosted an online book manuscript workshop for Xóchitl Chavez (Music), who found the virtual workshop to be very helpful. “I'm sure it would have been nice to share a meal to build further collegial ties,” she said, “but otherwise what is essential at this point is the content from the workshop.” All the participants in the two-hour Zoom session agreed, calling the workshop a “success” and a “great template” for future virtual meetings. For [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2020-03-26T10:05:58-07:00</span><span>March 26, 2020</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12847" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12847 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/goingonline/">Intellectual community just got an upgrade</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Dear colleagues, In these stressful times, the work of building community is more important than ever. We’re re-designing our book talks, panel discussions, and reading groups so that you can join in online – where ever you are. As we develop our plans, we would love to hear your ideas for meetings, events or programs that help keep us all in engaged and moving forward. Email us at CISevents@ucr.edu. Check back soon for more details! </p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2020-03-18T10:08:57-07:00</span><span>March 18, 2020</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12706" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12706 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/king/">In Focus: Matthew King</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Matthew King Mellon Humanities Fellow Department: Religious Studies Rank: Associate Professor # of years at UCR: 5 years Top three texts I would take to a desert island: Sakya Paṇḍita Sakya Lekshé, Annie Dillard Teaching a Stone to Talk, Michel de Certeau Heterologies. Favorite thing: a guitar and Anstruther Lake in my Canadian homeland of Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park. Favorite films: Three documentaries that I have seen in recent years that I regularly bring to my students—all imperfect portraits but which tend to leave [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2020-12-16T11:09:39-08:00</span><span>December 2, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12686" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12686 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/brookes/">In Focus: Marissa Brookes</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Marissa Brookes Mellon Humanities Fellow Department: Political Science Rank: Assistant Professor # of years at UCR: I am in my 7th year now. Top three texts I would take to a desert island: Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation; Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions; Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States Currently listening to: Dillinger Four, Naked Raygun, Danny Brown, Malibu Ken A favorite record I encourage students to listen to is: Propagandhi’s 1993 How to Clean Everything. It’s a political punk classic. Website: [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-12-02T15:14:23-08:00</span><span>November 18, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12625" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12625 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/benjamin/">In Focus: Jody Benjamin</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Jody Benjamin Participant, Committee on African Studies Department: History Rank: Assistant Professor Educational background: Ph.D. in African and African American Studies with a concentration in African History, Harvard University, 2016 # of years at UCR: Four Top three texts I would take to a desert island: The best collection of photographs I could find; The Fortunes of Wangrin by Ahmadou Hampate Ba. The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison. Favorite things: music: afrobeat, hip hop, bebop, jazz, reggae; places: libraries, museums, big cities (Dakar, Lagos, New York [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-10-21T09:15:29-07:00</span><span>October 10, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12477" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12477 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/reyes/">In Focus: Victoria Reyes</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Victoria Reyes Participant, Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies, Contested Histories Seminar Department: Sociology Rank: Assistant Professor # of years at UCR: Entering 4th year at UCR but 3rd year on campus because during my first year I was on leave for a Postdoc at University of Michigan Top three texts I would take to a desert island: This is a difficult one…I’d say I would take my phone and internet connection Favorite thing: Philippine brand dried mangoes Website: www.victoriadreyes.com Q. Your research agenda [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-10-21T09:15:42-07:00</span><span>September 4, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12142" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12142 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/mcmullin/">In Focus: Juliet McMullin</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Juliet McMullin Convener, Inequities in Health, Faculty Commons Project Juliet's Stats: Department: Anthropology Rank: Professor Years at UCR: 14 Favorite Thing: Chocolate. It is such a favorite thing that I host bi-annual chocolate parties. Book I'm reading right now: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot. Personal Website: www.julietmcmullin.com Comic of Juliet's visit to the 2018 Asian American History graduate seminar at UCLA by Angel's Talitha Trazo. Q. Your research agenda summed up in one sentence: My research agenda is designed to examine the production of inequality [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-07T15:26:41-08:00</span><span>July 8, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12185" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12185 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/uchri-award-winners/">UCHRI Award Winners</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Congratulations to the following UCR faculty and students for being awarded a UCHRI grant for the year 2019-20! Alisa Bierria, Ethnic Studies Feminist Anti-Carceral Research Initiative ✪ Engaging Humanities Grant Michelle Dizon, Media and Cultural Studies Fugitive Archives ✪ Engaging Humanities Grant Dana Simmons, History Humanities Careers in Science History, Policy, and Communication (H-SCHIP) ✪ Grad Professionalization Workshop Grant Samuel Fullerton, History Sex and the English Revolution ✪ Dissertation Award Chelsea Silva, English Bedwritten: Middle English Medicine and the Ailing Author ✪ Dissertation Award [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-06-26T08:55:06-07:00</span><span>June 25, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12123" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12123 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/thank-you-for-another-great-year/">Thank you for another great year!</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> On behalf of everyone at the Center, we want to thank you for your continued participation and support! In addition to celebrating the Center's 30th Anniversary, we’re celebrating another successful year of humanities-oriented programs at UCR. Over the last academic year, Center-sponsored events reached over 800 people through... More than 15 conferences & workshops Over 20 community events 12 faculty-led projects hosting over 50 guest speakers 11 faculty book talks including Emory Elliott Award winner: Close Encounters with Humankind by Sang-Hee Lee 27 graduate [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-06-19T10:40:40-07:00</span><span>June 19, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12138" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12138 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/lucia/">In Focus: Amanda Lucia</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Amanda Lucia Second Project Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society Department: Religious Studies Rank: Associate Professor Years at UCR: 7 Favorite Thing: Building my secret garden. Top texts for a desert island: Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction; Max Weber, Economy and Society (Vols. I & II); Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus [Chosen not on the pretense of presenting myself as smart, but rather because these are texts that I can read and reread, again and again, and still always seem to find something new and interesting bit to “think with.” [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-07T15:26:50-08:00</span><span>June 3, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12130" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12130 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/mahutga/">In Focus: Matthew Mahutga</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Matthew Mahutga Co-Lead, 2018-19 Political Economy Seminars and the Globalization, Populism and the International Order Symposium Department: Sociology Rank: Associate Professor Years at UCR: 10+ Favorite thing: My favorite past-time is just about anything on the Central California coast. Fishing, hiking, food and wine are right at the top! Text I would take to a desert island: How to Survive a Desert Island by Tim O'Shei (Capstone Press, 2019). Hiking with friend Mark Martinez at Montaña de Oro State Park. [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-07T15:27:00-08:00</span><span>June 3, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12073" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12073 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/jerry/">In Focus: Anthony Jerry</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Anthony Jerry Convener, Blackness Unbound, Faculty Commons Project Anthony's Stats Department: Anthropology Rank: Assistant Professor Years at UCR: 3 Project website: culturalmediaarchive.org Q. Summarize your research in one sentence: My work seeks to highlight the ways that blackness has historically been conceived of as the means of production and the ways that this conception continues to inform the possibilities of experiences and expressions of contemporary blackness in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. Q. How does your work add to current conversations in the [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-07T15:27:12-08:00</span><span>May 28, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12090" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12090 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-106"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/30/the-future-of-the-academy-one-student-at-time/">The Future of the Academy, One Student at Time</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> “The Center for Ideas and Society has created, and sustains, an environment for critical inquiry, collaboration, and scholarship. Their research funding, and support of graduate student working groups fosters stronger interdisciplinary and multi-campus collaboration…. The Center created an environment of inquiry, learning, and collaboration during my graduate studies at UCR.” ~Dr. Daisy Vargas (UCR History graduate, 2018) From its earliest days, the Center for Ideas and Society has designed programs and opportunities that incorporate graduate students as scholars in their own right. As future [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-05-20T13:46:41-07:00</span><span>May 9, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/30/" rel="category tag">30th Anniversary</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12059" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12059 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/uchri-grant-award-winners/">UCHRI Grant Award Winners</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Congratulations to the following UCR faculty for being awarded a UCHRI grant for the year 2019-20! Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi Department of History Imagine Lagos: Speculative Cartography and the Making of a 19th Century African City ✪ Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop --- Alejandra Dubcovsky Department of History At the Frontlines of a Forgotten War: Violence, Gender, and Conflict in the Early South ✪ Mid-Career Faculty Manuscript Workshops --- Dana Simmons Department of History Hungry, Thinking with Animals ✪ Mid-Career Faculty Manuscript Workshops --- Erith Jaffe-Berg Department [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-05-08T08:26:59-07:00</span><span>April 30, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-11996" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-11996 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/godrej/">In Focus: Farah Godrej</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Farah Godrej Senior Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, 2017-2020 Department: Political Science Rank: Associate Professor Years at UCR: 12 Favorite places: Walking the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena, or strolling the coast along the Pacific Ocean. Staring at nature, whether in the form of plants, trees, fauna, or water, is a crucially rejuvenating practice. Top three texts I would take to a desert island: * A “wisdom” text: The Bhagavad-Gita, the self-inquiry manual I turn to again and again. * An “intellectual” text: Karl Marx’s [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-07T15:27:22-08:00</span><span>April 30, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12012" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12012 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/mellon-humanities-fellows/">2019-20 Mellon Humanities Fellows</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Introducing the 2019-20 Mellon Humanities Fellows at the Center for Ideas and Society. Please join us in congratulating our colleagues who have received a year-long residency fellowship at the Center. David Biggs Over the next year, I will conduct a study of base-periphery shorelines in the Pacific (California, Guam, and Vietnam then continuing to sites in the Philippines, Okinawa, Hawai’i, and several atolls) with historical attention focused on the people—scientists, troops, families, refugees, laborers—and non-human life forms that circulated between them. This site-based focus will allow [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-07T15:27:39-08:00</span><span>April 21, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12039" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12039 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/global19th_call/">Call for Graduate Fellows: Global 19th Century 2019-20 Workshops</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> The Global Nineteenth-Century Working Group at the Center for Ideas and Society invites applications for Graduate Student Fellows in 2019-20. The Fellowship includes participation in two events: 1) A one-day, interdisciplinary workshop, loosely organized around the sub-themes of “Architectures,” “Devotional Practices” and “Empires” in the long nineteenth century, to take place on Friday, September 27, 2019. At this event, three local and three invited faculty will share works-in-progress. Graduate fellows will read these works in advance and participate fully in the discussions, lunch, [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-04-30T08:24:40-07:00</span><span>April 18, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-12010" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-12010 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/lalami-wins-leading-literary-prize/">Lalami wins leading literary prize</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Laila Lalami, a creative writing professor and author of several books, is the winner of the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize. She was one of five finalists announced last month, selected from authors nominated by publishers, critics, agents, authors, and other author representatives. Lalami, who received a $50,000 prize, said she was thrilled to receive the award and honored to be in the company of the other finalists. “This award is a wonderful gift of time, which I will use to work on [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-04-15T11:28:57-07:00</span><span>April 15, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-11933" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-11933 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/sohn/">In Focus: Stephen Sohn</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Stephen Sohn Senior Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, 2017-2020 Mellon Term Professor 2019-2020 Stephen's Stats: Department: English Rank: Professor Years at UCR: 5 years Favorite sport: Tennis Current favorite television show: Killing Eve and The Good Place (tie) Preferred desserts: Anything custard based! The text I cannot do without: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life Stephen's favorite local dessert, Vanilla Custard Bun from Uncle Chuang's Bakery. Q. Summarize your research in one sentence... I am interested in thinking deeply about literature and culture in all of [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-07T15:27:52-08:00</span><span>April 8, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-11978" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-11978 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-106"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/30/leading-the-way/">Leading the Way</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Over the course of 30 years, the Center’s faculty directors have inspired new initiatives and opportunities for research through their vision, intellectual generosity and commitment to service. In the late 1980’s, Bernd Magnus envisioned a Humanities Center with what was at the time a new and innovative approach to research: interdisciplinarity. Under his leadership, residential programs with high-profile faculty guests helped launch the Center’s reputation for scholarship and service to the intellectual life of the university. -- Following this auspicious beginning, Emory Elliott helped [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-03-26T11:19:41-07:00</span><span>March 26, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/30/" rel="category tag">30th Anniversary</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-11967" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-11967 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/lalami-on-short-list-for-literary-prize/">Lalami on short list for literary prize</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> UC Riverside Creative Writing Professor Laila Lalami is one of six finalists for the 2019 Simpson Literary Prize, which honors mid-career fiction authors. Lalami is the author of multiple award-winning novels, including her most recent book, “The Moor’s Account.” Her new novel, “The Other Americans,” will be published later this month. The $50,000 Simpson Literary Prize has been awarded annually since 2017 by the Simpson Project, a collaboration of the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation and UC Berkeley’s English department. The finalists, announced March 6, [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-03-18T15:48:28-07:00</span><span>March 18, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-11922" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-11922 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-in-focus"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/news/sasser/">In Focus: Jade Sasser</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> Jade Sasser African Studies Workgroup, Co-organizer, Humanities Interdisciplinary Project, 2018-19 Jade's Stats: Department: Gender & Sexuality Studies Rank: Assistant Professor Years at UCR: 5 years Favorite things: Swimming, coffeeshops, and karaoke Non-academic class I would love to teach: "Motown Music for Beginners” Top three most important texts: Feminist Political Ecology (Rocheleau, et al.); Gender and Climate Change (Nagel); and This Changes Everything (Klein). Not light reading, but texts I can’t do without. Q. Summarize your research in one sentence... Environmental issues are social issues, and [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2021-01-07T15:28:06-08:00</span><span>March 6, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span class="meta-tags">Tags: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/tag/in-focus/" rel="tag">In Focus</a></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> <article id="post-11918" class="fusion-post-medium post fusion-clearfix post-11918 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-106"> <div class="fusion-post-content post-content"> <h2 class="entry-title fusion-post-title"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/30/spirited-exchange/">A Spirited Exchange of Ideas</a></h2> <div class="fusion-post-content-container"> <p> In 1990, the Center’s Resident Faculty Program sponsored three, quarter-long faculty groups the members of which, relieved of teaching for the quarter, met each week with an ambitious plan: to pursue their own research alongside a collective, interdisciplinary agenda. The first year, eighteen scholars attempted to do just that. At first, results were mixed. Contrasting methods and research ‘languages’ forced the group members to set aside the first few weeks simply to listen. From this deep listening grew a rich, interdisciplinary conversation—a “spirited exchange”—in [...]</p> </div> </div> <div class="fusion-clearfix"></div> <div class="fusion-meta-info"> <div class="fusion-alignleft"><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/" title="Posts by Jessica Salas" rel="author">Jessica Salas</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2019-03-06T14:20:52-08:00</span><span>March 6, 2019</span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/category/30/" rel="category tag">30th Anniversary</a><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="pagination clearfix"><span class="current">1</span><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/page/2/" class="inactive">2</a><a class="pagination-next" rel="next" href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/author/jsala010/page/2/"><span class="page-text">Next</span><span class="page-next"></span></a></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div> </section> </div>  </main>  <div class="fusion-footer"> <footer class="fusion-footer-widget-area fusion-widget-area"> <div class="fusion-row"> <div class="fusion-columns fusion-columns-3 fusion-widget-area"> <div class="fusion-column col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <section id="text-8" class="fusion-footer-widget-column widget widget_text" style="border-style: solid;border-color:transparent;border-width:0px;"><h4 class="widget-title">Contact Us</h4> <div class="textwidget"><p>Center for Ideas & Society<br /> 900 University Ave<br /> College Building North<br /> Riverside, CA 92521</p> <p>Email: <a href="mailto:cis@ucr.edu">cis@ucr.edu</a><br /> Tel: (951) 827-1556<br /> Fax: (951) 827- 6377</p> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div></section> </div> <div class="fusion-column col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <section id="text-10" class="fusion-footer-widget-column widget widget_text"><h4 class="widget-title">Join Newsletter</h4> <div class="textwidget"><p>Stay informed about the latest Center news and events with our weekly email newsletter.</p> <p>Sign up below!</p> <p><strong><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/subscribe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe</a></strong></p> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div></section> </div> <div class="fusion-column fusion-column-last col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <section id="facebook-like-widget-2" class="fusion-footer-widget-column widget facebook_like"><h4 class="widget-title">Follow us</h4> <script> window.fbAsyncInit = function() { fusion_resize_page_widget(); 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