2011-2012 UCHRI GRANTEES ACROSS THE UC

*For fellows, MRGs, and grantees awarded by the UC Humanities Network, please see http://uchumanitiesnetwork.org/.

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

2011-12 Andrew Vincent White & Florence Wales White Dissertation Scholarship

Imaging Truth: Negotiating Expertise and Trust in Radiology
Allison Tillack, Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco

Defining the Soldier's Wounds: U.S. Shell shock in International Perspective
Annessa C. Stagner, History, UC Irvine

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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

2011-12 Residential Research Groups

Vocal Matters: Technologies of Self and the Materiality of Voice
In residence Fall 2011
Conveners: Annette Schlichter, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
and Nina Eidsheim, Department of Musicology, UCLA
Participating Faculty: Carole-Anne Tyler, English, UC Riverside
David Kasunic, Music, Occidental College
Katherine Kinney, English UC Riverside
Jonathan Alexander, English, UC Irvine
Caitlin Marshall, Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Between Life and Death: Necropolitics in the Era of Late Capitalism
In residence Spring 2012
Convener: Jodi Kim, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
Co-organizer: Grace Kyungwon Hong, Departments of Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, UCLA
Participating Faculty: Curtis Marez, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Thu-Huong Nguyen-vo, Asian Languages and Cultures/Asian American Studies, UCLA
Christine Hong, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Andrea Smith, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
Sara Clarke Kaplan, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Alexander Hirsch, Politics, UC Santa Cruz, Graduate Student
Lindsay Smith, Center for Society and Genetics, UCLA

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2011-12 Working Groups

Comparative Iberian Studies
PI: Robert Newcomb (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Davis)
Participants: Marta Altisent (UCD), Emilie Bergmann (UCB), Silvia Bermudez (UCSB), Cristina Gonzalez (UCD), Adrienne Martin (UCD), Cristina Martinez-Carazo (UCD), Viola Miglio (UCSB), Gonzalo Navajas (UCI), Cristian Ricci (UCM), Joao Camilo dos Santos (UCSB), Harvey Sharrer (UCSB)

Cultures of Militarization
PI: Caren Kaplan (American Studies, UC Davis)
Participants: Paul Amar (UCSB), Toby Beauchamp (UCSD), Kelly Gates (UCSD), Peter Limbrick (UCSC), Colin Milburn (UCD), Minoo Moallem (UCB), Jennifer Terry (UCI)

FlashPoints Book Series
PI: Edward Dimendberg (UC Irvine)
Participants: Ali Behdad (UCLA), Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), Catherine Gallagher (UC Berkeley), Jody Greene (UC Santa Cruz), Susan Gillman (UC Santa Cruz), Richard Terdiman (UC Santa Cruz)

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EVENTS & OUTREACH

2011-12 Conferences on UC Campuses

Culture, Space, Violence: The Neoliberal Imaginary Critical theories of today's dominant worldview
Catherine Liu, Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine

History Unlimited: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Cuture
Claudio Fogu, French and Italian Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Gaming the Game: Tweaking, Creeping, Hacking, Cheating, Innovating...
Kris Ravetto, Technocultural Studies, UC Davis
Colin Milburn, English & STS, UC Davis

Global Forcefields: Transnational Performance and Politics
Sue-Ellen Case, Center for Performance Studies, UCLA
Daphne Pi-Wei Lei, UC Irvine

Civil Society in the Middle East: The Promise and Perils of Advocacy for Human Rights and the Environment
Susan Slyomovics, Antropology / Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA
Lisa Hajjar, UC Santa Barbara

Conference on "Impasse"
Ryan Ku and Sarah Kessler, UC Irvine

2012 Wellek Lectures
Professor Horacio Legras, UC Irvine

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2011-12 Extramural Explorations

Video Interface Pilot Development Project for the Virtual Tribunal
David Cohen, Rethoric and Classics Department, UC Berkeley

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