[Sshagradstudents] Please save the date for spring programs and events + announcement of our Common Read Book

[UCM Center for the Humanities]

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome back for the spring semester!

We're excited to announce that our Common Read book will be The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer; we will distribute 200 copies of the books in the community and host 10 book club discussions in collaboration with the Merced County Library. We hope you will join us.

Please be sure to save the date for the following spring events listed below. We are especially pleased to host 3 UC Press editors who will offer a book publishing workshop alongside 1:1 consultations with faculty on April 22 (more details and events coming soon). Additionally, we will be hosting a graduate student write-in every Wednesday morning from 9:15-12 in COB2-295B.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
12:00 - 1:30 PM
COB2-295
Empire’s Phantom Pain: Colonial Nostalgia and Empire Forestry in Hayashi Fumiko’s Floating Clouds
Jiajun Liang, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, UC Merced
Monday, February 3, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
COB2-295
Creating Research Space: Tips for Collaborative Writing
Anne Zanzucchi, Teaching Professor for Writing Studies
Mariam Ohanlelham, Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD Candidate
Miriam Campos Martínez, Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD Candidate
Thursday, February 20, 2025
3:00 PM
COB2-295
The Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement: Richard R. Madden and Juan Francisco Manzano's Influence on William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass
William Luis, The Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
12:00 - 1:30 PM
COB2-295
Enslaved Ship Pilots During the Age of Revolution
Kevin Dawson, Associate Professor of History, UC Merced
Monday, March 3, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
COB2-295
Making Community-Engaged Research Count
Anna Song, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, UC Merced
Iván Soto, Assistant Professor of Latinx History, Washington State University Vancouver
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
12:00 - 1:30 PM
COB2-295
Race and the Biopolitics of Family in Adoption
Kit W. Myers, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Friday, April 4, 2025
10:00 AM - 3:30PM
COB2-295
Public Humanities Boot Camp
Mary Bryson, Co-Director of the Public Humanities Hub, University of British Colombia
Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, UC Davis
Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas, Assistant Professor, of Chicana/o Studies, UC Davis
Rosemary Joyce, Emerita Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Monday, April 7, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
COB2-295
Humanities Research with Community, Featuring Summer Projects

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
12:00 - 1:30 PM
COB2-295
A Time to Pause: Let’s Talk about Poetry
Carlo Acevedo, Writer and Interdisciplinary Humanities Ph.D Graduate Student, UC Merced
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
1:30pm
COB2-295
Demystifying Book Publishing
Raina Polivka, Senior Editor in Film/Media Studies and Sound Studies, UC Press
Niels Hooper, Executive Editor of History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies, UC Press
Michelle Lipinski, Senior Editor of Economics and Technology Studies, UC Press
Monday, April 28, 2025
3:00 PM
COB2-295
Public Humanities Speaker Series
Erica Kohl-Arenas, Faculty Director of Imagining America & Associate Professor of American Studies, UC Davis


IGNACIO LÓPEZ-CALVO, PH.D.
PROFESSOR
DEPT. OF LITERATURES, LANGUAGES, AND CULTURES
5200 Lake Road | Merced, California 95343
www.ucmerced.edu/content/ignacio-lópez-calvo




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