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Interested in a graduate student-led space to share teaching challenges and triumphs?

Meet Clare Bettencourt, a Ph.D. candidate in History and the 2019-2020 facilitator for the School of Humanities Graduate Learning Communities.
Climate Futures Collective Study Group: Virtual EARTH DAY Meeting (April 22)

The Climate Futures Collective (CFC) invites you to join our virtual study group meeting on Wednesday, April 22nd at 3:00 PM, which will be conducted via Zoom in sensitivity to COVID-19 concerns and social distancing protocol.
Please email CFC at climatefuturescollective@gmail.com if you would like to participate and we will provide you with the Zoom session link.
Empty Spaces: A Reflection by UCI Graduate Student Karem Delgado

How has the Corona virus affected you? Chances are, you are not infected. But like most of us at UCI and at other universities worldwide, you may be living and working in a different space: a place outside of the university campus and graduate housing. I have had to move back home with my parents.
Doing the Right Thing: A Reflection by UCI Philosophy Graduate Student Itzel Aurora Garcia

A common view in political philosophy takes society to be a system of cooperation between people, government, and the institutions that connect them. As someone living in California, news of COVID-19's spread has rapidly become more personal...
The Census is absolutely vital to academic researchers

History Professor Andrew Highsmith explains why.

April 1 is Census Day! To complete the census, go to my2020census.gov

To learn more, see our Census 2020 site under the Pedagogy Resources drop-down menu. There's a powerpoint that you can easily use to inform your students.
Unladylike: Unsung Women Who Changed America

As Women's History Month comes to an end, we still have the opportunity to learn about amazing women in history. From March 4 through August 26, 2020 (look it up), UNLADYLIKE2020 will be releasing 26 short films and a broadcast hour on PBS American Masters profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps.
Need help with remote teaching?

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Available for one-on-one consultation and workshops
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Introducing Humanities Teacher Lab

If you are interested in receiving support as UCI transitions to remote teaching, please join us.

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Humanites Center Programs

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About the Center

The UCI Humanities Center
Where Ideas Matter

We foster innovative collaborations that:

Spark new knowledge: The Humanities Center provides our faculty and graduate students with financial resources, staffing support, and grant-writing consultation as they pursue human-centered responses to the grand challenges of our time.

Foster vibrant intellectual communities: The Humanities Center fosters the ethos of interdisciplinary collaboration by sponsoring learning communities, public events, conferences and research centers.

Inspire conversations that matter: The Humanities Center is driven . . .
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Events

A philisophical approach to culture, and especially to literature, that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures that produce and constrain it.

April 9, 2020
[WEBINAR] Finding Funding Opportunities for Humanities Grad Students
April 16, 2020
Grad Student Fellowship Workshop #1 (Zoom)
April 22, 2020
Climate Futures Collective Study Group: Virtual EARTH DAY Meeting
April 23, 2020
Grad Student Fellowship Workshop #2 (Zoom)
April 24, 2020
[CANCELLED] Creative Careers: Get Support for Your Open Future (Grad Student Workshop)

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