2012-13 Annual Report

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ANNUAL REPORT

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 GOVERNANCE 6 GRANTEES 10 25TH ANNIVERSARY 12 EVENTS 13 INITIATIVES 16 DML COMPETITION 19 DML HUB 23 CALIFORNIA STUDIES 25 HUMANITIES NETWORK

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY UCHRI funds and administers a wide range of competitive programs, from the individual Presidential Faculty Fellowships and the White Dissertation Fellowships in Medicine and the Humanities to collaborative research programs through workshops, working groups, seminars, conferences, residence research groups, and other formations. The roster of funded programs represents a wide array of individual and collaborative research representing leading formations in humanities research across the University of California. Especially encouraging is the percentage of awards made to younger scholars.

As in the past, we have hosted a residence research group in each of the Fall and Spring quarters. In the Fall 2012, the group in residence was “Imperial Legacies, Postsocialist Contexts: History, Ethics, and Difference in a Neoliberal Age,” convened by Kalindi Vora (UCSD) and Neda Atanasoski (UCSC). In the Spring, we hosted an experimental residency, “Digital Princess,” convened by Deanna Shemek (UCSC).

We renewed our partnership with the Fowler Museum, who generously hosted our 25th anniversary celebrations in April with two evenings of public events that included participation by three of UCHRI’s board members, Wendy Brown, Angela Davis, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Approximately 500 people attended the two days of events.

Funded in part by the Mellon Foundation, the international workshop program around the theme of “Living in a Critical Condition” pairs UC faculty with faculty in different global sites, including Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Beirut. With colleagues in Hong Kong and Johannesburg we conducted workshops on the Social Life of Forms, and in both Irvine and Johannesburg on “Times of Race.” We also began examining an ongoing partnership with faculty across universities in Taiwan focused on critical theory.

Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory VIII in August 2012 focused on “Spaces of Resistance” and took place at the American University of Beirut. It was co-convened with us by Saree Makdisi (UCLA), and two faculty in architecture at the American University of Beirut, Mona Fawaz and Howayda al-Harithy. We produced a small online publication with statements from participants in the event, available at http://spaces.uchri.org.

UCHRI has continued to administer the UC Humanities Network. This includes managing selection of the UC Presidential Faculty Fellowships, the Multi-campus Research Group competition, the Mellonfunded Working Groups on Work, the Luce-funded project on Religion in Diaspora and Global Affairs (RIDAGA), and the various programs for the California Studies initiative. The Luce project on religion has produced very creative and engaged working groups including UC and international faculty, as well as highly regarded working journalists.

The MacArthur-sponsored Digital Media and Learning Research Hub continues to run out of UCHRI. The Hub sponsors working groups and a digital working platform for collaborative engagement, a research network on “connected learning,” an offsite research network on youth, citizenship and participatory politics, and a research project on digitally transforming learning ecologies. We also run the annual Digital Media and Learning conference. The conference this year, held in March in Chicago, focused on “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices and Remixing Youth Participation.” It attracted close to 1500 participants.

Last year’s Digital Media and Learning Competition IV partnered with a range of US government departments, non-profits, as well as corporations to produce digitally based assessment systems for learning and work activities, and launched a notable national conversation on digital badging. Our work from the Competition was recognized personally by President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative, America meeting in Chicago in June.

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GOVERNANCE In 2012-13 we celebrated UCHRI’s 25th anniversary. The first decade was one of putting the Institute’s structures in place, leading national developments especially in critical theory, establishing effective residential research groups, and developing some major nationally recognized initiatives. The second decade expanded external funding support in the face of UC-wide funding challenges, developed a range of programs to which individual and collaborating faculty might apply, and established an internationally influential summer seminar series in critical theory. In the face of significant challenges, UCHRI continues to lead in intellectual agenda-setting across the state, nationally, and internationally as well as in contributions to maintaining UC’s research strengths across the humanities.

founding board of governors, 1988-89

David Theo Goldberg Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine Director, UCHRI

Jennifer Langdon Associate Director, Research Development and External Relations

Mizuko Ito Research Director Digital Media & Learning Research Hub

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Advisory Committee members are nominated by the humanities dean of their home campus, and selected by the UC Board of Governors to reflect the diversity and disciplinary breadth of UC faculty. The committee makes selections for UCHRI’s core funding programs (residential research groups, working groups, conferences and seminars, collaborative compositions, and extramural explorations). The committee also works to communicate the mission, thematic priorities, and procedures of UCHRI to their campuses, and to help assess the effectiveness of UCHRI programs across the UC system.

UC Berkeley

UC Irvine

UC Merced

UC San Diego

UC Santa Barbara

Deniz Göktürk, Associate Professor, German

Arlene Keizer Associate Professor, English and African American Studies

Jan Goggans Associate Professor, Literature

Sara Johnson Associate Professor, Literature of the Americas

Dick Hebdige Professor, Film & Media Studies and Arts Studio

UC Davis

UCLA

UC Riverside

UC San Francisco

UC Santa Cruz

Joseph Dumit Associate Professor, Anthropology

Michael Cooperson Professor of Arabic

Mariam Beevi Lam Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Southeast Asian Studies 4

Dorothy Porter Professor, School of Medicine, History of Health Sciences

Matthew O’Hara Associate Professor, History

BOARD OF GOVERNORS The Board of Governors consists of up to eight UC faculty and up to ten persons of distinction from other universities or prominent citizens outside academia. The Board is responsible for establishing and reviewing policies and procedures of the Institute. The Board also appoints Advisory Committee members and approves the procedures by which fellowships are awarded.

Wendy Brown, 2011-13 Chair Professor, Political Science UC Berkeley

George Lipsitz Professor, Black Studies UC Santa Barbara

Mahasti Afshar Executive Director, Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans

Toby Miller Professor/Chair, Media and Cultural Studies UC Riverside

Angela Davis Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

Chon Noriega Professor, Film, Theater & Television, UCLA

Page DuBois Professor, Classics & Comparative Literature, UC San Diego

Laurie Racine Senior Fellow, University of Southern California

Michael Fischer Professor, Anthropology, Science & Technology Studies, MIT

AbdouMaliq Simone Professor, Goldsmiths University of London

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Professor, English and American Studies, Stanford University

Ngugi wa Thiong’o Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine Siva Vaidhyanathan Professor, Media Studies University of Virginia

Jocelyne Guilbault Professor, Music, UC Berkeley Ralph Lewin Executive Director, California Council for the Humanities

Bill Viola International Video Artist Ex Officio: David Theo Goldberg, Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, and UCHRI Director

George Lewis Professor, Music, Columbia University

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2012-13 GRANTEES UCHRI RESIDENTIAL RESEARCH GROUPS In Residence Fall 2012

Imperial Legacies, Postsocialist Contexts: History, Ethics and Difference in a Neoliberal Conveners: Kalindi Vora & Neda Atanasoski, UCSC Participants: Julia Elyachar, UCI; Fatima El-Tayeb, UCSD; Julietta Hua, SFSU; Donald Donham, UCD; Dace Dzenovska, University of Latvia; Ebru Erdem-Akcay, UCR; Shimei Shuh, UCLA; Xiao Liu, UC Berkeley This group addresses the theoretical, temporal, and spatial intersections of postcoloniality and postsocialism with the goal of arriving at a novel approach to race, gender, and sexuality in present-day geopolitics.

In Residence Spring 2013

Digital Princess: Digital Isabella d’Este a collaboration between the Institute for Humanities Research at UC Santa Cruz and the State Archives of Mantua, Italy Conveners: Deanna Shemek, UCSC; Sarah Cockram, U. of Edinburgh; Roberta Piccinelli, Medici Archive Project | Participants: Lisa Boutin Vitela, Cerritos College; Daniela Ferrari, Archivio di Stato, Mantua; Carolyn James, Monash University; Anne MacNeil, UNC-Chapel Hill; Lorenzo Pasquinelli, Medici Archive Project; Valerie Taylor, Pasadena City College This group aims to create an open-access, online resource for study of the correspondence of Renaissance Italy’s most consummate female social networker, Isabella d’Este (1474-1539), marchesa of Mantua.

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WORKING GROUPS Experimental Interdisciplinary Practices Liz Kotz, Art History, UCR This group will historicize and theorize the emergence of cross-disciplinary artistic practices in the post-WWII era. Centered in New York City but resonating internationally, these practices operated between the visual arts, music, poetry and dance. Their formal, material and performative experiments challenged the boundaries and definitions of existing media and artistic disciplines – and, in our present, they continue to defy critical and academic reception.

Focusing on the key period of the 1950s and 1960s, the group seeks to identify and share crucial research materials and develop more robust scholarly networks to support this growing area of work.

Bridging Humanities and Social Science Frameworks to Human Rights: Feminist and Decolonial Approaches

Retracing the Medieval Sudipta Sen, History, UC Davis “Retracing the Medieval” will address the changing definitions and conceptions of the ‘Medieval’ that are deployed in the humanities as a transitive category to mark the tentative spaces between the ancient and the modern.

As a socio-temporal adjective, the term ‘Medieval’ surfaces with vastly varying implications across key disciplines in the humanities. The main purpose of this group is to dismantle and reconsider the ‘Medieval’ as a cognate of modernity and also as the tenuous surrogate of the ‘premodern’.

Color Blindness Across the Disciplines Kimberle Crenshaw, Law, UCLA This group will examine how the practices and paradigms of scholarly disciplines function to present color blind solutions as privileged responses to color bound problems. The goals of the group are to identify how the disciplines enable and inhibit understanding of race because of color blindness; acquire an inventory of exemplary interdisciplinary works, methods, and theories; stage creative conversations across disciplines; identify how tropes like merit, market, and choice occlude racial power; and demonstrate the migration of concepts across academic disciplines, journalism, philanthropy, public policy, and popular culture.

Rosa-Linda Fregoso, UCSC As scholars working in the humanities, social sciences, and media arts the group’s aim will be to investigate and contribute to the development of an alternative epistemology of human rights. A primary objective of the project is to envision expanded articulations of human rights within the humanities and social sciences by engaging with and extending the work and analysis of a transnational feminist discourse on human rights that overcomes the disconnect that legal manifestations of human rights tend to have with the lived realities of women.

Spaces for the Future: Religion in Urban Place-Making Mary Hancock, UCSB and Smriti Srinivas, UCD This group will focus on the ways that religious ideas, practices, and sites (i.e. various forms of religiosity) associated with different traditions are implicated in what has often been treated as either the preeminent space of the secular or the site of religion’s violent return.

By bringing together scholars whose theoretical and ethnographic concerns lie at the intersection of the study of urban formations and religion (broadly defined), we aim to develop inter-campus research and curricular initiatives that are comparative and cross-disciplinary and address the relationship between religion and urban place-making.

Feminist and Technology Network Lisa Cartwright, UCSD

(Re)fashioning the Humanities: Rethinking Fashion Studies Susan B. Kaiser, UCD How can fashion help us understand the humanities?

Conversely, how can the humanities further illuminate the already burgeoning and complex field of fashion studies? This group seeks to explore these and other questions about the relation between fashion studies and the humanities. Given the importance of material culture in many humanities approaches - particularly the idea of expressive culture as it is produced, distributed, and consumed - Bruno Latour’s notion of a “material-semiotic” network is the starting point for the group’s work.

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In the last two decades of the 20th century, feminist scholarship on technology transformed two fields that were then relatively new: science and technology studies (STS), and film and television studies. This working group will provide a platform for collaboration, discussion and debate among scholars and practitioners of feminist technology studies across STS and film and media studies, critical sci-art, digital humanities, and a range of related research in traditional fields. The group will also serve as a node in FemTechNet, an emergent global network of feminist technology scholars and media practitioners.

SHORT-TERM COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH RESIDENCES

through an interactive public history website and sitebased audio tour. In doing so, the project brings California’s rural history to life in new and innovative ways that can reach significant, and often underserved, off-campus audiences. The These public programs will further the partners’ goal of sparking conversations critical to helping communities understand their natural environments and creating a more sustainable and inclusive relationship between people and place. http://restorerestory.org

Transnational and Diasporic Citizenship Across the Americas Robyn Rodriguez, UCD & Ulla Berg, Rutgers University In winter 2013, Dr. Rodriguez and Dr. Berg spent two weeks in residence at UCHRI, collaborating on a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

Bringing Theater to the UCLA Clark Library

ANDREW & FLORENCE WHITE DISSERTATION SCHOLARSHIP

Barbara Fuchs, English, UCLA Part of a new long-term initiative that will broaden its outreach, showcase new ways to interpret and utilize the holdings, and forge community relationships to maximize the potential of the collection and the Library as a whole, UCLA’s Clark Library is collaborating with L.A. Theatre Works, a non-profit media arts and theater organization. This project will use innovative technologies to produce works of dramatic literature, providing diverse audiences with wide access to theater. We will produce three plays each year that draw on the Clark’s collection. These new productions, featuring renowned actors, would be available to community groups and campus constituencies, while recordings would be available online and through libraries to reach a broad audience.

War, Trauma, and Technologies of the Self: The Making of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Marisa Brandt, Communication, UCSD Since the mid-1990s, psychotherapists have proposed using virtual reality to enhance their practice by immersing patients in computer-generated environments designed to provide therapeutic experiences.

This project will apply training in science and technology studies and theories of mediated communication to analyze virtual technologies as treatment interventions for combat-related post-traumatic stress. By studying both designers and clinicians, this analysis will aim to show how the history of VR in mental health care and history of concepts of the psychologically traumatic consequences of war have converged in the contemporary moment in order to produce this particular form of therapeutic mediation as an intervention into subjectivity.

GRADUATE EVENT GRANTS 2nd Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium: Weaving the Roots of Knowledge

The Disability Drive

Stephanie Lumsden, UCD & Kayla Carpenter, UCB April 26-27, 2013 | UC Davis | Weaving can be understood as the interlacing of strands to form a texture, fabric, or design. With regards to Native American Studies and Indigenous research, some of the questions we seek to dialogue about throughout our two-day symposium include, but are not limited to: How and why do we weave knowledges together?; How and why do we interpret the complexities of narratives, textures, fabrics, and designs?, What knowledges are gained from interweaving disciplines, methodologies, and methods of research?, and when is it necessary to unweave narratives?

Anna Mollow, UC Berkeley Through readings of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literary and medical texts, this dissertation argues that what Freud calls the “death drive” also entails a drive toward disability. This project will show that the “disability drive” enacts a merging of sexuality and disability that inheres within all subjects but that our culture, by abjecting the drive onto disabled people, habitually misrecognizes. Rather than rejecting cultural uses of disability to figure the death drive, this project imagines ways of taking on, and taking in, the twisting and perverting effects of the disability drive.

Bicicultures Roadshow: The Critical Bicycling Studies Tour de California

PUBLIC HUMANITIES

Sara McCullough, UCD and Adonia Lugo, UCI April 10-13, 2013: Los Angeles | April 16-17, 2013: Davis The Bicicultures Roadshow will be a time for activists and researchers to talk, ride, eat, and play as we discuss and experience bicycling cultures. During the Association of American Geographers Conference in Los Angeles, we will explore L.A.’s bike movement through rides and oral history. At the two-day conference in Davis, we will grapple with the shifting role of bicycle research and activism as it crosses lines between policy, recreation, and radical organizing.

Restore/ReStory: A Collaborative Public History of the Cache Nature Preserve Michael Ziser, UC Davis Restore/Restory documents the changing social, economic and physical landscape of the Cache Creek Nature Preserve in rural Yolo County, California. A collaboration between the UC Davis Art of Regional Change (ARC) and the Cache Creek Conservancy, the project brings university and community members together to tell the complex story of this Preserve 8

The Laboring Body: 2013 UCI Comparative Literature Graduate Conference

Dickens! Author and Authorship in 2012 John O. Jordan, UC Santa Cruz In honor of the bicentenary of Dickens’s birth, this Dickens Project MRU conference focused on life writing and authorship with reference to the Victorian period generally and to Charles Dickens in particular. Featuring keynote lectures by Robert L. Patten (Rice University) and Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston College), the conference addressed a range of topics including biographies, archives and life writing, biographical criticism, the Idea of the author in contemporary critical siscourse; Victorian afterlives; signature; celebrity; relics, and houses. http://dickens.ucsc.edu

Philip Anselmo and Jennifer Gutierrez, UCI March 15, 2013 | This conference addressed the ways in which politics is manifest at the level of labor embodied. In other words, how are bodies organized and self-organized within the system of labor at this most recent (neoliberal) stage of capitalism and the crises it currently faces? In what ways is the notion of labor being transformed when the body is no longer put to the service of capital but instead actively works against it?

Inhumanities: Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference

Empire, Narrative and the Global Environment

Robert Farley, Comparative Literature, UCLA February 23, 2013 | UCLA | The term inhumanity is most often evoked as a moral condemnation, marking and redeeming the human. We will reflect on inhumanities as conceptual, figurative, temporal, geo-political, or juridical moments in which the human is marked as an absence, suspended or negated, and at the same time, to consider the human’s persistence and resistance to these operations.

Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, UCLA This conference brings together the major scholars in the emergent field of postcolonial ecocriticism to address the role of empire in understanding representations of the environment and to foreground the importance of humanities-based approaches to environmental knowledge and representation. Working in diverse fields such as African, Caribbean, Latin American, South Asian, and Pacific Island Studies, our participants will examine narrative production of these regions and produce a published work that focuses on the importance of global and humanitiesbased approaches to environmental thought.

Urban Speculation & Contested Geographies Ameeth Vijay, Alexandra Lippman, CJ Gordon, UCI October 19, 2012 | UC Irvine | Keynote speaker: Karen Tongson, University of Southern California.

This conference convenes graduate work in which we probe the real, virtual, and speculative spaces of the city by deploying live concepts in contemporary urbanism, especially those that concern the disposition of environments in their mediated and spectacular as well as ecological and phenomenological dimensions. We are especially interested in those design concepts and practices that reflect the saturation of contemporary place-making protocols by hyperactive communication economies and information overload.

Illuminating the Human: Transforming the Museum for the 21st Century Participants David Yager and Jennifer Gonzalez, UCSC A recent National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy report found that 55% of grantor dollars serve just 2% of elite cultural institutions, while a University of Chicago study noted a seismic shift in U.S. demographics: “Within four decades, the group that has historically constituted the core audience for museums – non-Hispanic whites – will be a minority.” This interdisciplinary conference features Jock Reynolds, Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale Art Gallery. The conference will jumpstart a collaborative conversation about the nature, role, and significance of museums on UC campuses, in California, and in the wider world.

CONFERENCE GRANTS

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Exploring the Human Experience and Conceptualization of Caves | October 18-20, 2012 at UC Merced

Occupation Affect

Holley Moyes, UC Merced October 18-20, 2012 at UC Merced | This conference explores the role of caves in human experience. This topic emerges from an archaeological cross-cultural phenomenon, which demonstrates that through time and space, ancient people used dark zones of caves as ritual spaces but rarely inhabited them. We suspect that dark caves have physical properties experienced by humans that lead to the assignment of similar meanings among different human groups across time and space. Sponsored by the UC Merced Center for Research in the Humanities and Arts.

Carla Freccero & Deborah Gould, UC Santa Cruz This conference will investigate the feelings that permeate this era of economic collapse and the modes of adaptation and resistance that have arisen in its midst. In this moment of economic restructuring toward an uncertain future and growing rebellion against the neoliberal global order, we are curious about ordinary and extraordinary affects: their circulation and effects, how we feel them and what we do with them, what they signal and what they obscure, how they use us and how we might use them.

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UCHRI EVENTS

UCHRI hosts events seminars that address the humanities and the public sphere.

THE UNIVERSITY WE ARE FOR: PUBLIC/NOT PUBLIC: MAKING THE HUMANITIES COUNT UC Irvine | January 23, 2013 | In this era of dwindling public support, what and who do public universities stand for? What forms of knowledge are rightfully represented in the public academy? How and for what do we train our students? How and by whom are these choices to be made? This distinguished panel of visionaries from science, engineering, economics, art and architecture and the humanities take on the hard questions, offering different – often clashing – perspectives on the university we should be for. Speakers: John Seely Brown, Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte’s Center for the Edge; Cathy Davidson, co-director of the Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English, and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University; Ann PendletonJullian, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Design at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University; Andrew J. Policano, Dean, Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine; and Larry Smarr, founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and Harry E. Gruber professor in Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School.

HUMANITIES IN CIRCULATION: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT

UCLA | April 18-19, 2013 | How do ideas circulate between the humanities and the arts, the sciences and beyond to help us make meaning in the complex global culture of the 21st century?

Humanities in Circulation brought together scholars, novelists and artists from across the University of California to engage These events showcase and these questions through public conversations and a showcelebrate humanities research case of new research in the humanities. across the University of California— Humanities in Circulation marks the 25th anniversary its creativity, penetrating analysis, of the UC Humanities Initiative. Created in 1986 by and complexity. As we convene this then-President David Gardner, the initiative created impressive group of scholars, artists, the systemwide UC Humanities Research Institute and activists, we reflect upon the reach (UCHRI), based at UC Irvine, and provided funding and impact of the past 25+ years of for residential research groups and fellowships to collaborative humanities research as well support faculty research. A quarter century later, as the relevance of the humanities for the this endeavor has expanded to include humanities centers at each UC campus and scores of innext 25 years and beyond. dividual and collaborative research programs around a dizzying array of interdisciplinary issues and approaches.

- David Theo Goldberg, Director, UC Humanities Research Institute

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Research by thirty of the UC’s most innovative humanities scholars - the 2012-13 UC President’s Faculty and Graduate Fellows in the

Humanities - was showcased at the third annual Society of Fellows meeting. These prestigious and very competitive fellowships support a full year of intensive work on a book or dissertation project.

The Fellows presented their research through roundtable conversations and lightning talks in the newly redesigned Conference Center in the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA.

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Bookending the research showcase, the 25th Anniversary celebration also featured activist and UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Angela Davis and UC Berkeley political theorist Wendy Brown joined Harvard anthropologist Jean Comaroff and visual artist Ken Gonzales-Day for the panel Race, Representation, Repression and Resistance: Thinking Through Ernest Cole. Cole’s photographs of apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s document a brutal reality of the country’s storied history.

Held at the Fowler Museum in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition Ernest Cole, Photographer, this co-sponsored event was part of the Fowler OutSpoken Conversation Series.

On April 19, Writers, Reading + Riffing brought together celebrated novelists and UC professors Bharati Mukherjee (UC Berkeley), Ngugi wa Thiong’o (UC Irvine), and Karen Tei Yamashita (UC Santa Cruz). The panel also included novelist-journalist Hector Tobar, who received his BA from UC Santa Cruz and his MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine.

Writer-critic David Kipen, former NEA literature director and founder of Libros Schmibros, moderated this evening of readings and conversation exploring the creative process, making meaning through the arts and the humanities, and the ways in which ideas circulate through and across texts and times, genres and geographies.

Friday’s closing event, Vocal Strings, featured a dynamic performance by experimental creatrix Liu Sola and avant musician Liu Yijun, former lead guitarist for the metal rock band Tang Dynasty. n To view the 2012-13 faculty fellow panels and graduate lightning talks, please visit: uchri.org/archives/society_of_fellows_meeting

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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS Cultural Politics of Seeds

Aesthetics, English, Comparative Literature, the Center for the Middle East, Art History and History of Architecture, and Film and Media Studies.

UCLA | May 17, 2013 A symposium organized by Allison Carruth and Rachel Lee (UCLA).

The symposium is part of the multi-year “Life (Un)Ltd” research project, which is addressing the question of what impact recent developments in the biosciences and biotechnology have had on feminist studies. In this year, the group is exploring the rich connections between food, ecology, propagation, and metabolism. The “Cultural Politics of Seeds” symposium will look at how gender, ethnicity, and race have shaped contemporary cultural and political movements related to seeds.

After Secularization

UC Irvine | March 1-2, 2013 | This conference featured the dissertation research of an interdisciplinary group of young scholars from around the country who are investigating the secular and secularism after the failure, or at least refiguring, of the secularization thesis. Their projects are grounded in a wide range of contexts — historical, literary, and social scientific. Co-sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.

Working at Living: The Social Relations of Precarity UCSB | May 9, 2013 | An exploration of the sociality of precarious labor, both formal and informal, from an interdisciplinary, global, and intersectional approach that considers how sociocultural inequalities are and have been magnified and countered during times of financial crises, technological development, and increasing unemployment. Attentive to social contexts that shape, even as they are shaped by, constructs of gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, ability, age, and citizenship, we consider categorical questions of what counts as work and who counts as a worker from feminist, ethnic, and cultural studies perspectives.

Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network initiative on the Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work, the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies, and the Multicultural Center.

Life-Times of Disposability in Global Neoliberalism: China and the Philippines

Commoning Precarity: No Work, Refusal, Autonomy

UC Irvine | November 27, 2012 | Neferti X. M. Tadiar explores the question of disposability and temporal aesthetics in global neoliberalism as exemplified in the cinematic work of Jia Zhang-Ke and Brillante Mendoza, and therefore in the regional context shared by China and the Philippines. Tadiar looks at the practices of attention of these filmmakers and the specific forms of rendering what she calls “life-times” of disposability. Hosted by UCHRI’s Fall 2012 Residential Research Group, “Imperial Legacies, Postsocialist Contexts: History, Ethics and Difference in a Neoliberal Age.” Co-sponsored by the Critical Theory Emphasis, Asian American Studies, and Culture and Theory at UC Irvine.

UCSB | May 10-11, 2013 | Today precarity, a life without any guaranteed work, is becoming the condition of millions of people worldwide. The conference focuses on the social and affective costs of precarity, but also on what possibilities it may open. Speakers include Kathi Weeks (Duke University), R. Radhakrishnan (UC Irvine), Douglas Kellner (UCLA), and George Caffentzis (University of Southern Maine). Moroccan filmmaker Leila Kilani will be screen and discuss her new film “On The Edge”. Co-sponsored by the IHC, COMMA, the Center on Modern Culture, Materialism and 12

INITIATIVES The UC Humanities Research Institute has embarked on a three-year research initiative exploring the complex cultural and political relations between diasporic religious communities and their self-identified homelands. The initiative is funded by the Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, a grant program that seeks to deepen understanding of religion as a critical but often neglected dimension of national and international policies and politics.

The Jam brought interested faculty and graduate students into conversation with one another; of the eight proposals that were ultimately submitted for RIDAGA funding, five of them originated out of these meetings.

Fur were funded with $50,000 to $75,000 grants: Shari’a Revoiced: Documenting American Muslims’ Experiences of Islamic Law PIs: Kathleen Moore (UCSB); Mark Massoud (UCSC); Participants: Shahib Malik (UCR), Maria Ebrahimji (CNN), Ziba Mir-Hosseini (University of London)

This past year has been dedicated to building collaborations among UC faculty, UC graduate students, and journalists across California. In addition to convening a robust working group of multidisciplinary scholars and working journalists, we held four informative webinars, a terrifically productive Studio Jam Session to help with proposal development, and made four studio grants totaling $275,000.

Global Religious Festivals in Secular Cityscapes: Immigration, Politics, and Religious Performance in California PIs: Jennifer Hughes (UCR); Amanda Lucia Huffer (UCR); James Lee (UCI); Jeremy Guida (UCR); Patricia Lee Brown (The New York Times); Participants: Matthew Casey (UCD); James Ault (James Ault Productions); S. Romi Mukherjee (UNESCO)

WORKING GROUP The working group developed general thematics that served as examples of possible studios for scholars interested in developing a studio proposal. In November of 2012 we held a meeting at UC Irvine to define the intellectual terrain of the initiative and brainstorm potential projects for the humanities studios.

Humanitarian Ethics, Religious Affinities, and the Politics of Dissent PIs: Mariam Lam (UCR); Participants: Natalie Avalos Cisneros (UCSB); Andrew Lam (New American Media); Leshu Torchin (University of St. Andrews); Neda Atanasoski (UCSC); Cecelia Lynch (UCI); Angilee Shah (Public Radio International)

Our participants included: Wale Adebanwi, UC Davis; Nathaniel Deutsch, UC Santa Cruz; Jennifer Hughes, UC Riverside; Suad Joseph, UC Davis; Felicia Kelley, Cal Humanities; Cecelia Lynch, UC Irvine; Steve Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee; Susan Ossman, UC Riverside; Angilee Shah, Public Radio International; Leti Volpp, UC Berkeley; and Mayfair Yang, UC Santa Barbara.

Regulating Sex/Religion: Secular Citizenship and the Politics of Diasporic Difference PIs: Mayanthi Fernando (UCSC); Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley); Participants: Jean-Michel Landry (UC Berkeley); Maya Mikdashi (Jadaliyya Ezine); Nilufer Gole (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris); Suad Joseph (UCD); Anjali Arondekar (UCSC); Sherene Seikaly (Jadaliyya Ezine and American University in Cairo)

HUMANITIES STUDIO JAM SESSION & FUNDED STUDIOS

RESIDENCY INTENSIVE

We convened a two-day proposal workshop/networking opportunity at UC Irvine on February 21-22, 2013.

During the week of September 13, UCHRI hosted a five-day residency intensive at UC Irvine. Each studio’s UC faculty member, graduate student, media representative, and global scholar was in attendance. If studios have multiple PIs associated with their studio, they were in attendance as well.

Throughout the week, studios engaged in collaborative discussions about the initiative; met individually as studios and developed detailed work plans for the coming year; conducted field site visits; attend a humanities journalism seminar led by media experts in the field of religion and humanities; and met with UCHRI’s research program manager to begin developing an assessment of the project that will represent the unique and dynamic work underway.

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THE HUMANITIES

PIs: David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI; David Marshall, UC Santa Barbara; and Carolyn de la Pena, UC Davis Currently concluding year two of the grant, we had a successful year of programming that included three graduate seminars, five working groups, eight summer research grants for individual faculty projects, and two global seminars.

become scarce. Students in the seminar engaged in weekly discussions of readings and films that touched on neoliberalism, immaterial work, feminist viewpoints on precarious labor, and student debt, among many others. In addition to the seminar, students participated in a conference at UCSB entitled “Commoning Precarity: No Work, Refusal, Autonomy.”

GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINARS Comparative Approaches to Work in GraecoRoman Antiquity and the Middle Ages Fall 2012 | Andromache Karanika, Classics, UC Irvine As part of the Tri-Campus Graduate Program, this historically-focused seminar introduced students to the changing conceptions of labor and work from different genres of texts that stretched from the archaic to classical Greece to Roman times and finally to the early Middle Ages. As a culminating event, students co-organized a graduate student conference and a symposium entitled “Reflections on Work and Labor in Ancient Greece.”

RE FLECTI O NS O N WORK AN D LABOR I N ANCI ENT GREECE

Part I. Labor, Work, Class, Slavery

Part I I::. Women, Ch i ldren, Labor

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“Hesiod’s Etiology of Labor" Anthony Edwards, UCSD

"Women, Textiles, and Social Networks in Ancient Greece” Laura McClure, UW–Madison

Discussion Leaders: Elizabeth Parker, UCR/UCI Robin Murray, UCI

Discussion Leaders: Matthew Ferguson, UCI Lauren Brenner, UCI

"Work, Class, Hegeso, and Her Slave" Page duBois, UCSD

"Maternal Ponos and War in Athenian Tragedy" Angeliki Tzanetou, UIUC

Discussion leaders: Christy Cones, UCI Vicki Hioureas, UCI

Discussion leaders: Katie McClelland, UCI Teresa Yates, UCI

Spring 2013 | Julia Bryan-Wilson, Art History, UC Berkeley This seminar, which included an interdisciplinary group of students from Anthropology, Art Practice, History of Art, Performances Studies, and Rhetoric, considered how artists and theorists alike have understood art—making as a form of labor—as purposeful effort structured by class relations and economic imperatives. In addition to regular seminar meetings, the seminar travelled to Utah to view Robert Smithson’s massive earthwork “Spiral Jetty,” to shed light on the politics of construction and the production of place.

Poster designed by Joey Enos, UC Berkeley

December 7, 2012 2:00-5:30 PM Humanities Gateway 1010

Art and Labor / Art as Labor

"All Work and No Play? Child Labor in Graeco-Roman Egypt" Mar yline Parca, UIUC Discussion leaders: Nat Murphy, UCI Shawn Ragan, UCR

Sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the UCI Classics Department and the Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Classics.

The Refusal of Work: Precarity, Scarcity, Affect For questions and comments please e-mail Andromache Karanika, (karanika@uci.edu)

Winter 2013 | Maurizia Boscagli, English, UCSB This seminar studied the nexus of work and happiness today, at the time when work has changed into new forms (immaterial, cognitive, affective), and has 14

CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF WORK GLOBAL SEMINARS

criteria especially in the case of hiring, tenure, and merit promotions. This group considers the range of new assessment criteria, their relevance and viability as well as how graduate student training may adapt and adjust its traditional protocols.

This past year we held a series of global seminars on the work of critical theory in the humanities. The seminar in Hong Kong included faculty from a number of UC campuses in discussion with faculty from the University of Witwatersrand, and faculty and graduate students from City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University. The topic focused on the “social life of forms,” discussing how we experience forms in their interaction with social life, and how the life of the form alters over time and space/place. University faculty in Taiwan invited David Theo Goldberg to visit Taipei, where we discussed the possibility of ongoing interactions concerning critical theory. The visit will likely lead to a series of workshops involving Taiwanese and UC faculty. The first workshop, next academic year, will likely focus on the topic of “waiting” as a growing condition of contemporary social life. We held two workshops on race, one in Irvine (November 2012) and one in Johannesburg (February 2013) involving faculty from across UC, Wits in Johannesburg, and two from Duke University and one from Boston University. The workshops focused on new analytics of racial conception and arrangement, including new developments in digital and genetic articulations, and will lead to a small online and print publication. Two additional workshops are planned next year, in Senegal and Sao Paulo, also involving support from the Goethe Institute, and will serve to help prepare a joint UCHRI Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory /Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism in July 2014 in South Africa focusing on “Archives of the Nonracial”.

Social Media, Insecure Work and New Conceptions of Labor Solidarity PIs: Chris Benner and Jesse Drew, UC Davis This group focuses on exceptions, particularly in transportation and food chain industries, where social media have been powerful tools for connecting people around labor issues across multiple and disparate places. At the intersection of history, media studies, and labor organizing, this working group brings new insights to our understanding of shifting conceptions of work and solidarity.

Santa Cruz Commons: Activist Research and the Public Humanities PI: Nancy Chen, UC Santa Cruz Citizens, community activists and activist academics around the country have begun to seek solutions at the local level to economic and social problems that seem intransigent in a national context. Their goal is the conceptualization and mobilization of alternative economies that can support forms of work that are creative, innovative, productive, collaborative —and committed to social justice. This group considers how humanists can help to create such an alternative economy by redefining the meaning of work.

Working at Living: The Social Relations of Precarity

WORKING GROUPS Changing Work, Changing Workforce: Immigrants and their Impact on the Meanings of Work PI: Steven McKay, UC Santa Cruz The working group explores the relations between the changing economy, changing meanings of work, and the changing labor force by addressing a central animating question: how does WHO does the work affect the conceptions of work itself? This group explores immigrant work and workers across a broad range of historical periods in California as well as from multiple disciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

PI: Eileen Boris, UCSB This group explores the social relations of precarious labor, both formal and informal, from an interdisciplinary, global, and intersectional approach that considers how sociocultural inequalities are and have been magnified and countered during times of financial crises, technological development, and increasing unemployment.

Attentive to social contexts that shape, even as they are shaped by, constructs of gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, ability, age, and citizenship, it considers categorical questions of what counts as work and who counts as a worker from feminist, ethnic, and cultural studies perspectives.

Working Class Cultural Labor of the Central Valley PI: Jan Goggans, UC Merced Understanding class as a subjective position as well as an economic position is particularly relevant to work in California’s central valley since it opens working class studies to a wider range, one that includes economics and material culture. Focusing on this site of exploration, this group reformulates California studies by intersecting with a new concept of labor studies - an intersection that allows us to rethink both.

Graduate Student Training and Faculty Assessment in the Humanities PIs: William Ladusaw, UCSC and Julia Lupton, UCI This working group focuses on changing criteria of assessment for new modes of work in the Humanities. As new modes of work, especially multimedia work, have materialized in the Humanities, they have tended to be assessed on the basis of older established assessment 15

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PROJECT:CONNECT SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMMING

MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES WIN GRANTS TO ENHANCE LEARNING ONLINE $150,000 in Grants Part of Larger Effort to Build a Learning Approach for Our Times Sixteen museums, libraries and nonprofit institutions have been awarded a total of $150,000 to engage young people in the development of apps, badges, curricula and other tools that will make the online experience more civil, safe and empowering. The Competition is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, administered by Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), and was carried out

in collaboration with Facebook, the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), and Mozilla.

Competing for grants of up to $10,000 each to support single or multi-day summer programs, the 266 applicants from 41 states plus Washington, D.C., included libraries, community organizations, advocacy groups, museums, non-profits, cultural organizations, youth-serving institutions, and arts organizations.

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New York, NY: HASTAC co-founder Cathy N. Davidson announces the Project:Connect Hackathon winners

This year’s Digital Media and Learning Competition will encourage the development of apps, badges, curricula, and other tools to enhance learning through making the online experience for young people more civil, safe, and empowering. It included the hackathon in New York City in May, the Summer Youth Programming Competition, and a $1.2 million open competition that will launch in the fall.

The winning programs effectively encourage civic engagement and community-building; promote civility, equity and safety online; embody Connected Learning principles of interest-powered, peer supported and academically oriented learning; and have a strong plan to ensure participation and project success.

The 16 winners are: The Clay Studio’s Claymobile Outreach Claymation Learning Labs; University of Arizona Foundation and The Feminist Wire’s LoveMaps; GlobalGirl Media’s Summer Training Academies; New York Public Radio (WNYC)’s “That Could Be Your Sister” Design Challenge; Colorado State University’s Making Equity; Racquet Up Detroit’s RU Connected; Digital Harbor Foundation’s WebSlam; Filipino American Human Services’ Connected LYFE; Neighborhood Associates Corporation’s Our Community, Our Environment; Catholic Social Services Out of School Time Programs’ Cyber Cadets Summer Workshop; Jacob Burns Film Center’s Reel Change: Community Vision; Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation’s Connected Messages; Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion’s Digital Media for Social Justice; Appalachian Media Institute’s Digital Citizenship Lab; ThreeSixty Journalism’s Journalism and Communications Lab; and Eyebeam’s Digital Day Camp.

From July through September, the winning organizations will host local hands-on events where young people collaborate and compete to build a better web through activities such as hackathons, digital learning labs, maker spaces, badge development workshops, and digital journalism and mentoring workshops. All the events are part of the Summer of Making and Connecting, in which dozens of organizations are engaging young people, parents, teachers and others in creating learning opportunities designed for our times.

Assisting with judging were members of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, which partnered with MacArthur’s YOUMedia this past year to create the Born Brave Bus, a national bus tour committed to empowering youth and inspiring bravery in communities across the country.

The competition this year is designed to engage young people in solving a real-world challenge — making the Internet a safer and more powerful place to advance learning. The ability to meet that challenge will help determine whether education will be more relevant to both young people and the economy where they will be eventually looking for work.

— Connie Yowell, Director of Education, MacArthur Foundation

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digital media + learning competition 5 DIGITAL BADGING ANNOUNCEMENT WITH BILL CLINTON, HASTAC, MOZILLA, AND THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION AT CGI AMERICA At the Clinton Global Initiative conference in Chicago, June 13, President Clinton acknowledged the work to create Open Badging for Learning by UCHRI/HASTAC (David Theo Goldberg, Director of UCHRI and co-founder with Cathy Davidson of HASTAC), Mozilla (Mark Surman, Executive Director), and the MacArthur Foundation (Connie Yowell, Director of Education).

Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting, an annual event of the Clinton Global Initiative that seeks innovative solutions for economic recovery, Clinton said three partners – the MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and HASTAC – have created the commitment to Open Badges. Outreach and technical assistance will be provided to help employers and universities across the country incorporate Open Badges in hiring, promotions, admissions, and credit over the next three years.

Clinton added, “The unemployment rate among returning military veterans persisted for years after the financial crisis at about 25% higher than the national average. [...] Veterans were repeatedly required to go back to college and get degrees in subjects where the study involved far less scope of responsibility than they had already shouldered as members of the military. So it may be that some of the principle beneficiaries of this are people who have served our country in the various military services, and their ability to flow more quickly into appropriate jobs in the economy will benefit all of us.” n More: www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/better-futures-2-million-americans-through-open-badges

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DML RESEARCH HUB 2013 DIGITAL MEDIA & LEARNING CONFERENCE

DEMOCRATIC FUTURES MARCH 14-16, 2013 | CHICAGO, IL | DML2013.DMLHUB.NET There has been a longstanding narrative of youth political apathy and disengagement from democratic life.

However, this perception is now giving way to a richer account, one that seeks to illuminate the dynamic ways in which young people are redefining expressions of “citizenship,” “political engagement,” and “democracy.” As the currents of social, political, financial, and global change intensify, what is the future of participatory democracy, youth activism, and civic and political education? How are the practices and forms of participatory democracy evolving in the age of social, digital, and mobile media? And what do these transformational practices reveal about democratic futures?

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at UCHRI. The conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialog and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice.

The fourth annual DML conference DML2013 – was organized around the theme “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and Remixing Youth Participation” and was held between Mar. 14-16, 2013 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Chicago, Ill. The conference attendance remained steady at 1200 participants. This year the conference was chaired

by Craig Watkins, the Committee Members include Sasha Costanza-Chock (Youth Media and Youth Movements: Organizing, Innovation, Liberation), Susan Crawford/Nigel Jacob (Technology for Governance: Community-Driven Innovation), Ellen Middaugh/Nicole Mirra (Envisioning 21st Century Education), and Nishant Shah (Whose Change Is It Anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology And Citizen Action in the Global South (And the Rest of the World). n

For videos of the DML2013 conference, please visit http://dml2013.dmlhub.net/news

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“How Do We Teach Digital Civics?

2013 keynote by Ethan Zuckerman

Idea sharing at DML Cafe

Craig Watkins (2013 Chair) with plenary panelists danah boyd, Cathy Cohen, Rob “Biko” Baker, Lemos, & Astrid Silva

Plenary panelists Andrew Slack, Mark Anthony Neal, and Henry Jenkins.

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which is tightly curated and closely integrated with the Research Hub’s expanding web portfolio. The first issue of RiFFs debuted in October 2011 and featured Mitch Resnick of the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group. Other interview subjects from the past six months have included Katie Salen of the Institute of Play, Yasmin B. Kafai of UPenn University, Amanda Lenhart from the Pew Research Center, and Christian Greer from Hive Networks.

The Research Hub has contributed substantially to the DML Initiative thought leadership, to coordinated research activities and to public communication, research dissemination, field and social movement building. It has played a central role in coordinating activities of the MacArthur Foundation DML Initiative, in the development of the core ideas of participatory and connected learning, in mentoring a new generation of DML researchers, and in publicly disseminating and representing the key ideas to government, industry, educational, and cultural constituencies. The DML Research Hub continues to contribute substantively to these endeavors, to grow the field, and social movement.

MACARTHUR REPORTS ON DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING SERIES The Research Hub has assumed overall management of the MacArthur Report Series in Digital Media and Learning. Published by MIT Press, these are commissioned white papers focusing on concepts and topic areas key to the understanding of digital media and learning. Now edited by Ellen Seiter (University of Southern California), the Hub provides editorial and administrative support, and helps to manage the relationship between editor, authors, and press.

For more on the Reports published in the series, see: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/john-d-andcatherine-t-macarthur-foundation-reports-digitalmedia-and-learning

Launched in late October 2009, DMLcentral.net continues to grow its traffic and expand its audience at a strong rate. We recently added several new people to the rotation of DMLcentral.net Bloggers; some of these new bloggers’ initial posts saw farabove-average readership numbers and aboveaverage attention in social media spheres.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS On January 15, 2013 The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub released its first report of ten in a series on connected learning called Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. The report was released as both a free downloadable PDF and an ebook.

In late September 2012, the DML Hub launched an “umbrella” site at http://dmlhub.net in order to better represent the scope of the Hub’s work, to coffer a one-stop site for Hub activities, and to separate out DMLcentral.net as a blog & resource website. This new website presents an integrated representation of all Hub activities, including the research networks and themes, full range of publications and websites, the annual conference, workshops and working groups, and the junior scholars program. The most notable features of dmlhub.net are its home page ‘carousel’ (highlighting certain content, whether on the site or off-site), and the dynamic home page feed: a Pinterest-esque, imageheavy feed of the latest content from throughout our web portfolio. The website is split into seven main sections: Research, Initiatives, People, Presentations, Publications, a Newsroom, and the annual DML Conference. The Newsroom section of DMLHub.net is a new offering in response to repeated media inquiries for access to experts in the DML field, and contains various resources for media professionals to learn more about the DML Hub and how to get in touch with desired experts.

To date, six working papers have been produced and distributed online: “The Civic & Political Significance of Online Participatory Cultures among Youth Transitions to Adulthood”; “Digital Opportunities for Civic Education”; “Online Localities & Implications for Democracy and Education”; “Digital Media Literacy Education and Online Civic and Political Participation”; “Youth Online Activities and Exposure to Diverse Perspectives”; “Service & Activism in the Digital Age: Supporting Youth Engagement in Public Life.”

CONNECTED LEARNING MOVEMENT MODULE Growing out of the research management and field building modules of the Hub, the next phase of work has involved developing a new module focused on supporting the emerging movement for Connected Learning. The primary focus has been on building a news aggregator for topics related to digital media and learning, and a community site designed to focus attention, build conversations, and curate resources for connected learning.

The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub’s monthly Interview Series Newsletter, RiFFs, provides exclusive access to insights from key scholars, researchers, and leading practitioners in the digital media and learning field. The email newsletter features popular DML-related resources and/or articles in addition to an in-depth Q & A-style interview piece,

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developed and tested over the course of several months. Called Spigot.org, our goal with this unique site is to aggregate and curate the compelling flow of research, news, tools and analysis coming out of the digital media and learning field, and to provide a dependable, authoritative, up to date, one-stop online source for information and insight. One section, the “Popular Today” section, is the result of crowdsourced curation that is automatically created based on the links being shared by thought leaders in the DML community. The other stories you see on Spigot are drawn from of a set of curated feeds relating to digital media and learning. As we discover innovative sources from our site users, we will reshuffle the selection, providing users with the freshest ideas from the most influential sources.

California, June 17-21, 2012. The goal of the institutes was to support the professional development of a diverse cohort of junior scholars working in the emerging field of digital media and learning in a diversity of settings inside and outside of academia.

This junior scholars who participated included: Adar Ben-Eliyahu, University of Massachusetts at Boston; Alicia De León, University of Utah; Amanda Ochsner, University of Wisconsin­Madison; Delila Omerbasic, University of Utah; Eduard Muntaner­ Perich, University of Girona, Gabriel Peters­Lazaro, University of Southern California, Grace MyHyun Kim, UC Berkeley; Leshell Hatley, George Mason University; Lindy L. Johnson, The University of Georgia, Meghan McCarthy Welch, Georgia State University; Peyina Lin, University of Washington; and Torrey Trust, UC Santa Barbara.

Collectively, the portfolio of six short connected learning films are intended to reach out to broader audiences, allies, stakeholders, and constituencies; to create curiosity about connected learning; and then to draw people to the other connected learning elements.

MAKE-TO-LEARN / OPEN LEARNING THEMATICS The Research Hub facilitates the development and support of strategic action themes to bridge research and practice. The activities associated with the current thematics include:

We have also developed a new microsite designed to make the work of the Hub’s Connected Learning Research Network more accessible and increase exposure and distribution opportunities. The CLRN site, http://clrn.dmlhub.net, houses all content relevant to the research behind connected learning and the various research projects of Network members. It also contains: a Newsroom in which we curate the media’s mentions of connected learning and the CLRN research projects; and a Blog in which Network members can write about connected learning and/or provide project updates.

Make to Learn (http://m2l.indiana.edu), an effort to leverage DIY culture, digital practices, and educational research to advocate for placing making, creating, and designing at the core of educational practice.

Recognizing and articulating the powerful learning potential of making and DIY culture is critical in broadening the reach of the Maker movement.

Insights into this potential make programs centered on innovation, creativity, and inquiry more accessible to educators and youth in underresourced settings. The broader vision of Make-toLearn is an educational ecosystem that incorporates these practices as a means to engage and inspire all young people towards lifelong collaborative learning, experimentation, and invention.

ANNUAL SUMMER INSTITUTES

Reclaim Open Learning (http://open.media.mit. edu), a collaboration between the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine and the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers and innovators to explore the ways the networked and digital world offers an unprecedented wealth of resources for engaged, interest-driven, lifelong learning. To this end, Reclaim Open Learning engages in the conversation about the impact of online learning for higher education by supporting and showcasing innovation that brings together the best of truly open, online and networked learning in the free wilds of the Internet, with the expertise represented by institutions of higher education. n

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The UC California Studies Consortium (UCCSC) supports collaborative research by UC faculty, graduate students, and their colleagues at other institutions as part of a systemwide California Studies research initiative for the humanities, arts and social sciences.

nually to support collaborative research projects, campus-community programming, and graduate travel for research.

The goal of this initiative is to bring together the many interesting projects and discussions afoot on most of the UC campuses, and to facilitate their development and elaboration in robust and creative ways by providing support for new projects to emerge. This systemwide multicampus approach to California Studies aims to sustain innovative scholarship, teaching and outreach.

UCCSC is governed by a steering committee of faculty representatives from various UC campuses and is administered by UCHRI under the purview of the Office of the President. It offers competitive grants totaling nearly $80,000 an-

UCCSC | 2012-13 GRANTEES REGIONAL SEMINARS AND RESEARCH WORKGROUPS Bicycle Cultures and California: A Digital Archive Joe Dumit, Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies, UC Davis; Sarah McCullough, Cultural Studies and Science & Technology Studies, UC Davis

COMMUNITY OUTREACH & TEACHING Native American Museum Studies Institute Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley Powerful Stories/Historias Poderosas Robert McKee Irwin, Spanish / Cultural Studies, UC Davis

Medical Pluralism in Multicultural California Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz; Nancy Chen, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

The Miguel Contreras Learning Complex Digital Mural Project Judy Baca, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA

Critical Sustainabilities: Analyzing Competing Discourses of Urban Development in Northern California Miriam Greenberg, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz

Getting from Here to There is Not Enough: The Impacts of the Logistics Industry on Inland Southern California Juliann Emmons Allison, Political Science, UCR 23

UCCSC GRADUATE RESEARCH Reconceptualizing Changing Indigenous Masculinities and Usos y Costumbres in A Mixtec Transnational Community: The Case of San Jerónimo Progreso John Alvarado, Anthropology, UCR Shadows on the Border Robert Aneyci, English Literature, UCI

Defining California through American Cookbooks of the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Stephanie Maroney, Cultural Studies, UCD No Farther West: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers on the California Frontier, 1848-1873 Peter Owens, Sociology, UCI Young and Undocumented: The Impacts of Immigrant Legal Status on the Incorporation of Undocumented Youth in California Caitlin Patler, Sociology, UCLA

A Picture Perfect Indian: Re-Writing Edward Curtis’s Legacy Through Hupa Woman (c) 1923 or Mary Baldy Socktish Cutcha Risling Baldy, Native American Studies, UCD Self-Craft: Identity Construction and the Handmade 1960-1980 Documents of Quinto Sol Kayleigh Perkov, Visual Studies, UCI Gustavo Buenrostro, Spanish & Portuguese, UC Contours of Care: The Influenza Pandemic and Berkeley Healthcare in Southern California, 1918-1941 Toward A Refuge of Difference: Constructions of Juily Phun, US and World History, UCI ‘Radical Inclusivity’ in Sacred Spaces No Somos Animales: Indigenous Diversity and Mario Castillo, Sociology, UC Berkeley Plurality in 19th Century Santa Cruz, California Bubble Life: Fetishized home, Authentic Martin Rizzo, History, UCSC Belonging, and the Culture of Booms and Busts Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance Research Michelle Chihara, English Literature, UCI Martha Roberts, Religious Studies, UCSB Rethinking Race and Activism Beyond the Urban Ties of Belonging: A Transnational History of Core: Southern California’s San Fernando Valley German Jewish Identities from World War II to Secession Anne Clara Schenderlein, History, UCSD Jean-Paul deGuzman, History, UCLA

Blind Date: The Creation of an Arabian Fantasy in the Deserts of Southern California Sarah Seekatz, History, UCR

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic Waste as Matter of Concern Kimberley De Wolff, Communication and Science Studies, UCSD

Rumblings Underfoot: Cultures of Resistance and the Crisis of Development in 1930s California Elizabeth Sine, History, UCSD

Learning from Los Angeles: Claes Oldenburg’s Bedroom Ensemble (1963) Anna Kryczka, Visual Studies, UCI

Insurgent Labor: Rank-and-File Teachers Organizing in California After World War II Sara Smith, History, UCSC

Re-Imagined: Space, History, and Feminist Performance in 1970s Los Angeles Shannon Lieberman, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB

Allegories of Industry and the Limits of Reflexivity in the New Hollywood Erik Watschke, Visual Studies, UCI

Building Transnational Families: California International Adoption Agencies and the Global Market for Adoptable Children Sarah Macdonald, Sociology, UC Berkeley

UCCSC WORKING GROUPS California Futures Chris Newfield, English, UC Santa Barbara; Colleen Lye, English, UC Berkeley; and Michael Meranze, History, UCLA

Recordando El Porvenir: Four Generations of Memory, Migration and Place-Making among California-Baja California Transborder Families Maritza Maksimow, Anthropology, UCSB

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UC HUMANITIES NETWORK uchumanitiesnetwork.org | The UC Humanities Network links together the UC President’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities, a multi-tiered program of individual research fellowships for faculty and graduate students; the Humanities Advisory Committee, composed of the humanities deans from each campus, which oversees and directs the Network; the UC Consortium of Humanities Centers, represented by the faculty directors of UCHRI and the ten campus-based centers, which serves as liaison to the UC community of humanities scholars and advocate for humanities research across and beyond the UC system; and UCHRI, which is responsible for the central administration of the Network and its programs as well as a broad communications strategy to connect and showcase the vibrant and wide-ranging humanities work produced under the aegis of the Network.

UCHN MRGS 2012-13

Multicampus research groups (MRGs) are extended research collaborations by faculty and graduate students around a broadly interdisciplinary topic of compelling or emergent interest within the humanities. MRGs are selected by the faculty directors of the Consortium of Humanities Centers. The selection process is administered by UCHRI.

RE-ENVISIONING THE HUMAN: HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIANISM

W/SHAKESPEARE

PIs: Alison Brysk, UCSB Keith Watenpaugh, UC Davis

This group of UC Shakespeare scholars convened for a series of conversations and events that dramatize the conjunctive and transmedial character of the Shakespearean corpus. “w/Shakespeare” means: Shakespeare in relation to other discourses and media, but also Shakespeare as a commons shared and sustained by traffic among scholars, students, theater-makers, teachers, and public audiences.

Building from established programs at UCSB, UCSD and UCD that have demonstrated the vital nature of human rights research and teaching at the University of California, the proposed Human Rights Collaboration is a research group/network that coalesces work happening on human rights throughout the UC system.

PIs: Julia Lupton, UC Irvine James Kearney, UCSB

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KEYS TO VOICE STUDIES: TERMINOLOGY, METHODOLOGY, AND QUESTIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES PIs: Nina Sun Eidsheim, UCLA Annette Schlichter, UC Irvine Basing our study in the notion of the embodied voice, we examine the different fields of knowledge production and the possible transfer of knowledge across disciplinary borders within the emerging and inherently interdisciplinary field of “Voice Studies.”

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2012-13 SOCIETY OF FELLOWS FACULTY FELLOWS Frank Biess, History, UC San Diego “Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany” Lia Nicole Brozgal, French and Francophone Studies, UCLA “Representing October 17: Algeria, France and the Writing of History” Teresa Caldeira, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley New Urban Practices and Configurations of Public Space in São Paulo Kendra Taira Field, History, UC Riverside “Growing Up with the Country” Aisha Finch, Women’s Studies and African American Studies, UCLA “Insurgency Interrupted: Cuban Slaves and the Resistance Movements of 1843-1844”

GRADUATE FELLOWS Pavneet Aulakh, English, UCSB “Beyond Words: The Visual Turn in Jacobean England” Daniel Clinton, English, UC Berkeley “Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Immediacy” Jacob Culbertson, Anthropology, UC Davis “Assembling Maori Architecture: Indigenous Knowledge and Expert Collaboration in an Emerging Science” Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, World Cultures, UC Merced “Talking about Things: A Cognitive Approach to Digital Heritage and Material Culture Studies in Archaeology” Leah Feldman, Comparative Literature, UCLA “On the threshold of Eurasia: Intersecting Discourses of Empire and Identity in the Literature of the Russian Empire” Anna Finn, English, UCI “The Brandished Lyric: Form, Temporality and the Lyric I” Kristen Galvin, Visual Studies, UCI “The Art of Parties: Downtown New York Cultural Scenes, 1978-1983” Anastasia Yumeko Hill, Film and Media Studies, UCSB “Psychonautic Media” Sarah Klotz, English, UC Davis “Sentimental Literacies: Grief, Writing, and American Indigenous Rights, 1820-1920”

Sharon Kinoshita, Literature, UC Santa Cruz “The Worlding of Marco Polo”

Yannig Luthra, Philosophy, UCLA “Embodied Rational Agency”

Geoffrey Lee, Philosophy, UC Berkeley “Consciousness and the Passage of Time”

Maiya Murphy, Theatre & Dance, UCSD “In Corporation: Lecoq-Based Pedagogy’s Body-Bound Theory and Cognitive Science”

Mairi McLaughlin, French, UC Berkeley “The Origins and Evolution of Journalistic French: From the First Periodical (1631) to the French Revolution (1789)”

Mark Norris, Linguistics, UCSC “Feature Representation, Manipulation, and Realization: The View from Estonian and Icelandic Nominals”

Colin Milburn, English, UC Davis “Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter” Michele Salzman, History, UC Riverside “The Falls of Rome: Responses to Crises, 270-604” Roxanne Varzi, Anthropology, UC Irvine “The French Connection: Henri Corbin and Iran, Islam, Philosophy and Revolution” Yiman Wang, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz “Too “Chinese” to play a “Chinese”: Anna May Wong, the Segregationist Era, and American Cinema”

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