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Welcome back for the fall semester! I will be serving as Interim Director this fall while Ignacio López-Calvo is on sabbatical; Ignacio will return in January.</div>
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We're pleased to announce the Center received a $750,000 Mellon Grant, which started Aug. 1. The grant is for public humanities and community engagement with a social justice orientation; our public humanities design studio will be the hub for this work. It
will fund summer faculty fellows, graduate fellows, and community fellows, in addition to a "Common Read" (in collaboration with the County Library), community lunches, a public humanities speaker series, and mass media coaching and trainings for faculty.
Shiraz Noorani and Karla Seijas just joined us as GSRs in the Center, where they will be working on this grant.</div>
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We are also delighted to welcome David Toh Kusi as a Visiting Associate Professor; he will be housed in our Center this fall, where he will be offering workshops and consultations on digital humanities tools. In spring, he is projected to teach in English and
Interdisciplinary Humanities.</div>
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We will be hosting an exciting lineup of events this fall, with details to follow in our weekly emails. Please be sure to
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09/4, <b>Auditions for <i>La vida es sueño/Life is a Dream</i></b>, more information
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here</a>, 12 p.m.-1:15 p.m. in SSM 116 (organized by Bristin Jones, funded by the Center for the Humanities)</div>
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09/5, <b>Community-Engaged Research Highlights from Summer 2024</b>, Yiran Xu, Holley Moyes, and 2024 Luce fellows, UCM. 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. in COB2-295 (organized by Anne Zanzucchi and Robin DeLugan, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation) </div>
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09/7, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Auditions for <i>La vida es </i></span><b><i>sueño/Life is a Dream</i></b>, more information
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here</a>, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center (organized by Bristin Jones, funded by the Center for the Humanities)</div>
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09/14, <b>Local Author Fair</b>, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Merced County Library</div>
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09/14, <b>Merced LitFest</b><i>, </i>featuring <a href="https://writingstudies.ucmerced.edu/events/merced-litfest/schedule-events" target="_blank" id="OWA1c7bd684-8078-b9d4-30ec-94c95c9d7284" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://writingstudies.ucmerced.edu/events/merced-litfest/schedule-events" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
14 literary events</a> downtown and keynote speaker Dorothy Allison, 1:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (organized by Sam Ocena and Brigitte Bowers, funded by the Center for the Humanities)</div>
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09/25, <b>Digital Tools Workshop: Voyant and AntConc</b>, with David Toh Kusi, Visiting Associate Professor of English, UCM. 12:30 p.m. in COB2-295</div>
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10/7, <b>Building and Sustaining Relationships in Community-Engaged Research</b>, with Nomtsia Xiong, Project Director, HLUB Hmong Center Merced. 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. in COB2-295 (organized by Anne Zanzucchi and Robin DeLugan, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation) </div>
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10/9, <b>Designing Surveys for Programmatic Assessment</b>, with Anil Menon, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCM. 12:30 p.m. in COB2-295</div>
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10/11, <b>Alma, Corazón y Vida Exhibit Reception,</b> 2 p.m. in SSM 106; 4 p.m. in El Portal 120; and 7 p.m. at the MAC (curated by Tonya López-Craig, funded by the Center for the Humanities, with additional support from UC Merced Arts)</div>
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10/11 - 12/06,<b> Alma, Corazón y Vida Exhibit, </b>in SSM 106, El Portal 120 and the MAC<b> </b>(curated by Tonya López-Craig, funded by the Center for the Humanities, with additional support from UC Merced Arts)</div>
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10/17, "<b>Community-Centered Humanities and Participatory Action Research</b>," with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty Development, and Public Engagement, School of Humanities; Director of the Humanities Center; and Professor of History
and Asian American Studies, UC Irvine. 2 p.m. in COB2-295 (funded by the Mellon Foundation)</div>
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10/19, 10/20, 10/26, and 10/27, <b><i>La vida es sueño/Life is a Dream</i></b>, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center (directed by Bristin Jones, funded by the Center for the Humanities)</div>
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10/23, <b>Digital Tools Workshop: Sentiment Analysis, </b>with David Toh Kusi, Visiting Associate Professor of English, UCM. 12:30 p.m. in COB2-295</div>
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11/4,<b> National Endowment for the Humanities Funder’s Forum, </b>joining via Zoom: Jill Austin, Jennifer Serventi, Julia Nguyen, and Judith Adkins. 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in COB2-295 (organized by Anne Zanzucchi and Robin DeLugan) </div>
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11/20, <b>Digital Tools Workshop: R-Stylo, </b>with David Toh Kusi, Visiting Associate Professor of English, UCM. 12:30 p.m. in COB2-295</div>
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The following will be continuing as well in our Public Humanities Design Studio, starting next week:</div>
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<b>Weekly Dissertation Writing Group for Graduate Students,</b> Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in COB2-295</div>
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We hope to see you soon at these events! </div>
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