Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes

Join the UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society in their upcoming online events!
1. The third of a 3-part series on Understanding Palestine. April 25 @ 12pm
2. The Caste and Corporeality conference - April 26 @ 10am
https://events.ucr.edu/event/IndigenousResistance
https://events.ucr.edu/event/caste-and-food

2024 Annual Meeting Keynote Speakers Series- Introducing: Robin D.G. Kelley, an American historian and academic, who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA. Read more about Professor Kelley's achievements, publications, and his upcoming lecture at the Conference on "Black Studies vs Fascism: The longue durée," at: https://chcinetwork.org/am24/keynotes

2024 Annual Meeting Keynote Speakers Series: Solmaz Sharif

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lannan Foundation, and Stanford University. She is currently the Shirley Shenker Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
https://www.solmazsharif.com/

2024 Annual Meeting Keynote Speakers Series: Introducing Aracelis Girmay.

Aracelis Girmay is a poet who makes works across genres and a Professor of English at Stanford University. She is the author of the poetry collections the black maria (BOA, 2016), Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), and Teeth (Curbstone, 2007).
Through her lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth." Find more about our upcoming poetry keynote speaker for the 2024 Annual Meeting, on our website: https://chcinetwork.org/am24/keynotes

Member Event today: With co-hosts Massy Arts and Massy Books, join the UBC Public Humanities Hub for a roundtable discussion with Drs. Brenna Bhandar, Adel Iskandar, Jasbir K. Puar, and André Elias Mazawi on witnessing genocide as a humanities public scholarship method in the Palestinian context. Please register for this free event: https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event/witnessing-genocide-in-palestine/

Member event: Join leading scholars as they discuss evidence of cultural and environmental exchange between the West and the Pacific world through the impact of the Spanish past, and revisit some of the most compelling stories of the past 20 years. Tomorrow April 23, 2024, from 12 to 1 p.m, the The Huntington will hold the virtual lecture on "Global Spanish Fantasies." Find more information at: https://huntington.org/event/global-spanish-fantasies?utm_source=The+Huntington&utm_campaign=156d3a0cc1-this-week-at-the-huntington-2024-04-16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-acbb05ca10-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&goal=0_f3661894cf-156d3a0cc1-231612748&mc_cid=156d3a0cc1&mc_eid=ae50a17127

Wilfredo Flores and McKinley Green will discuss new media’s potential for BIPOC q***r s*xual health activism. Using Storying S*x as a case-in-point, they will demonstrate how q***r BIPOC use social media to assess technical health information, sustain informal health communication networks, and validate the situated expertise found in BIPOC q***r s*x communities. Zoom registration Required. Please click here to register. Registration deadline April 22. https://calendar.stonybrook.edu/site/humanities-institute/event/a-zoom-conversation-on-the-bipoc-q***r-oral-historypodcasting-project-storying-s*x/

The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is gathering in Surabaya as a conference festival (ConFest) in the summer of 2024. ICAS is a global, immersive platform enabling individuals and institutions to come together to exchange views on a variety of issues pertaining to Asia and beyond. The meeting attracts participants from all continents to engage in interdisciplinary dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines, knowledge sectors and geographic regions. ICAS 13 is now accepting a limited number of Late-Breaking Paper, Poster, Panel and Roundtable proposals for inclusion at ICAS 13. The ICAS 13 Organising Committee would like to invite proposals in the Late-Breaking track on new research, recent developments and trending topics in Asian Studies that have arisen during the one-year period prior to ICAS 13. Learn more about the Call and the Conference at https://icas.asia/icas13

Regular registration pricing for the 2024 Ann is available until April 26! Join CHCI as we examine the multiple challenges encountered by scholars operating within increasingly hostile environments at home and abroad. CHCI's Annual Meeting will takae place from the 28th of May to the 1st of June. Take a look at , will ask, what is a scholar at risk? Is it always a figure in exile? A person in search of refuge?

The 2024 CHCI Annual Meeting from May 28 - June 1, will be hosted by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, will be the key lecturer.
Judith received their Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. Their books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of S*x; Undoing Gender; Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?; and What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology.

Member spotlight! Learn more about the different programs and unique pedagogy at BISR at https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/programs/

Podcast of the week! The UConn PopCast is an analysis of popular culture and how it shapes society, with an emphasis on film and television. Features in-depth discussion, interviews with prominent scholars, and recordings of live shows. Hosted by Stephen Dyson, the associate director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, and a professor of political science, and Jeffrey R. Dudas, professor of political science and affiliate faculty of American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Listen to it at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uconn-popcast/id1704707374