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UCHRI Podcast

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Based at the University of California, Irvine, UCHRI offers competitive grant programs and leads externally-funded initiatives that support experimental, collaborative, interdisciplinary research and pedagogy across the University of California system and within the larger communities these campuses inhabit.
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Episodes

Talkbits on Civil War: Conflicts of Digital Interfacing

On Foundry, UCHRI is hosting a series of audiovisual conversations designed to unpack the thematic of civil war. In our first installment, Toby Miller discusses the social and political hazards of mobile devices—its industry and production—and the violent manipulation embedded in the personal user interface.

Jan 12, 201816 min

UCHRI Perspectives Spring 2017 - Queer of Color Formations and Translocal Spaces in Europe

Queer People of Color (QPoC) positionalities are a valuable yet underexplored lens through which to rethink the racial and colonial imaginaries and material conditions of subjects and space in Europe. It brings together race, gender, class, colonialism and sexuality, inseparably, in a shared analytic. It addresses multiple erasures: of sexualities and race from discussions of space; of QPoC in Europe from discussions of European subjects, race and space; and from US-centric QPoC studies. Indeed ...

Jun 05, 201712 min

UCHRI's Perspectives Fall 2015 with Karen Bassi

Interview with Karen Bassi, Literature and Classics, UC Santa Cruz, Convener with UCHRI Director, David Theo Goldberg about the Fall 2015 Residential Research Group. The fact and consequences of human mortality are principal variables in humanities research. And yet this fact, so often relegated to euphemism, has resisted anything like a comprehensive and sustained interdisciplinary approach. Although the prospects of fearing, facing, and evading death can be found in scholarship in a wide numbe...

Jan 19, 201624 min

Dead in the Waters – Talk by Brad Evans, University of Bristol

Continental Europe is currently facing the most challenging refugee crises since the Second World War. As many fleeing the conflict raging in Syria and elsewhere, set out onto the treacherous Mediterranean seas, images of dead bodies- including children- now appear in widespread circulation. While such images have, on occasions, notably shifted the political debates, evidencing in the process the power of social media, they are nevertheless still framed and mediated in order to regulate their ef...

Nov 16, 201552 min
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