UCLA will host a two-day celebration that will showcase exceptional research done by members of the UC Society of Fellows in the Humanities — among the most innovative UC-based scholars, artists and activists in their fields — who will be presenting on such intriguing topics as “The Worlding of Marco Polo,” “Mondo Nano” and “The Art of Parties.”
“The Society of Fellows will bring together faculty and graduate recipients of the UC President’s Fellowship in the Humanities to share new research with their peers and the wider humanities community,” said UCLA Humanities Dean David Schaberg. The recipients of these highly competitive awards become members of the society, which meets at a different UC campus each year.
This year, at UCLA, faculty and graduate student fellows will share their research and highlight the circulation of ideas among the humanities, art and the public world at free events on Thursday, April 18, and Friday, April 19,
The program, “Humanities in Circulation,” will mark the 25th anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative. Launched in 1986 by then-President David Gardner, the initiative created the systemwide UC Humanities Research Institute, based at UC Irvine, and provided funding for residential research groups and fellowships. In 2009, these fellowships, along with a new program of dissertation fellowships, became a core component of the UC Humanities Network. The fellowships support a full year of intensive work on a book or dissertation project.
On Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Fowler Museum, activist Angela Davis,
who became the center of controversy in the 60s when she taught at UCLA and then went on to become a professor of history of consciousness and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz, will join UC Berkeley political theorist Wendy Brown, Harvard anthropologist Jean Comaroff and visual artist Ken Gonzales-Day for a panel discussion, “Race, Representation, Repression and Resistance: Thinking Through Ernest Cole.”
Now on exhibit at the Fowler Museum, Cole’s photographs of apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s document a brutal reality of the country’s storied history.
On Friday, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Charles E. Young Research Library, three roundtable conversations with faculty fellows, moderated by UCLA faculty, will take place as well as digital “lightning talks” by graduate fellows. A wide range of topics will be covered. Among faculty members and graduate fellows from UCLA presenting will be Lia Nicole Brozgal, French and Francophone studies; Aisha Finch, women’s studies and African American studies; Leah Feldman, comparative literature; and Yannig Luthra, philosophy.
UCLA Dean of Humanities David Schaberg
This year, at UCLA, faculty and graduate student fellows will share their research and highlight the circulation of ideas among the humanities, art and the public world at free events on Thursday, April 18, and Friday, April 19,
The program, “Humanities in Circulation,” will mark the 25th anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative. Launched in 1986 by then-President David Gardner, the initiative created the systemwide UC Humanities Research Institute, based at UC Irvine, and provided funding for residential research groups and fellowships. In 2009, these fellowships, along with a new program of dissertation fellowships, became a core component of the UC Humanities Network. The fellowships support a full year of intensive work on a book or dissertation project.
On Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Fowler Museum, activist Angela Davis,Works by photographer Ernest Cole that depict the brutality of the apartheid era in South Africa will be the focus of a panel discussion co-presented by the Fowler Museum.
Now on exhibit at the Fowler Museum, Cole’s photographs of apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s document a brutal reality of the country’s storied history.
On Friday, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Charles E. Young Research Library, three roundtable conversations with faculty fellows, moderated by UCLA faculty, will take place as well as digital “lightning talks” by graduate fellows. A wide range of topics will be covered. Among faculty members and graduate fellows from UCLA presenting will be Lia Nicole Brozgal, French and Francophone studies; Aisha Finch, women’s studies and African American studies; Leah Feldman, comparative literature; and Yannig Luthra, philosophy.
The program will also introduce Project DH, a new digital initiative led by Annelie Rugg and the Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA. Still under development, Project DH aims to provide an ongoing showcase for digital humanities projects at UCLA and across the UC system.
“New technologies are dramatically impacting the ways humanities scholars conduct and share their research, and faculty at UCLA and across the UC system are leading the way in this transformation,” said Rugg, who directs the center. “Compiling those projects in a single site is an important step in sharing this cutting-edge work with the world.”
On Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Fowler Museum, “Writers, Reading + Riffing” will bring together celebrated novelists and UC professors for a panel discussion. L.A. Times columnist and novelist Héctor Tobar will join in. Closing out the celebration will be a performance by Vocal Strings, musicians at the leading edge of China’s avant garde. All events are free and open to the public.
The 2012-13 Society of Fellows meeting is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Humanities at UCLA and the Charles E. Young Research Library, in collaboration with the UC Humanities Network and the UC Humanities Research Institute. The Fowler is also co-sponsor of events being held there.
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To see a full schedule of events, go here.
“New technologies are dramatically impacting the ways humanities scholars conduct and share their research, and faculty at UCLA and across the UC system are leading the way in this transformation,” said Rugg, who directs the center. “Compiling those projects in a single site is an important step in sharing this cutting-edge work with the world.”
On Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Fowler Museum, “Writers, Reading + Riffing” will bring together celebrated novelists and UC professors for a panel discussion. L.A. Times columnist and novelist Héctor Tobar will join in. Closing out the celebration will be a performance by Vocal Strings, musicians at the leading edge of China’s avant garde. All events are free and open to the public.
The 2012-13 Society of Fellows meeting is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Humanities at UCLA and the Charles E. Young Research Library, in collaboration with the UC Humanities Network and the UC Humanities Research Institute. The Fowler is also co-sponsor of events being held there.
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To see a full schedule of events, go here.
