With flavor and flair, a community of academics, chefs and food justice advocates are sparking conversation at UC Davis and beyond through the new seminar Thinking Food at the Intersections: Justice and Critical Food Studies. The seminar series is supported by a $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation received earlier this year.
The Davis Humanities Institute is on track to start anew. By fall 2025, it will become the campus hub for making connections and sharing ideas across the arts, humanities and beyond. Its goals include making a deeper impact on campus and in the community, providing more research opportunities for undergraduate students and supporting cross-collaborations between disciplines within the College of Letters and Science as well as other colleges within UC Davis.
Where's Jukie? uses poems by Dr. Andy Jones and essays by Kate Duren to present the joys and challenges of raising their son Jukie, a boy with autism and Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome. The authors of this book -- the parents of three children, including Jukie -- together have more than 50 years experience reading and communicating emotions with deft and wit, and counseling parents and children with special challenges.
In the Almond Orchard: Coming Home from War represents the experiences of American veterans who have served overseas, and who are readjusting to life in the United States, especially California, after their service. With power and bravery, Dr. Andy Jones speaks to the struggle of those who must hold within themselves two people, and exchange one life for another.
This open-hearted book is the gorgeous collection of a visionary Hmong poet whose radiant language and natural eloquence has offered us the dark and light of his soul. Karst Mountains Will Bloom is a landmark achievement: ascendant, transcendent, visionary. This poet is a treasure and a light. What an important collection for Asian American literature.
In the 118th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Cindy Juyoung Ok moves assuredly between spaces — from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided countries to hospice wards. Ok’s resolute, energized debut shifts language’s fissures to reassemble them into a new place of belonging.
Personification, by Margaret Ronda, undertakes dreamlike journeys through crumbling architecture and airless interiors, discovering anachronistic and apocalyptic emblems among the commonplace particulars of modern day life.
A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Peterson’s slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs by Young Suh. Life in a Field tries to reverse our accelerating destruction of the natural world, reminding us of “the cold clarity we need to continue on this earth.”
Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book, by Michiko Suzuki, breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century.
The imaginative life of 15th century artist, inventor, scientist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci takes center stage in Ken Burns' latest documentary. The two-part documentary titled Leonardo da Vinci premiered Nov. 18 and 19 on PBS stations. UC Davis Associate Professor of Design James Housefield and art studio alumna Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) led a discussion on da Vinci at an advanced partial-screening of the documentary at PBS KVIE in Sacramento on Nov. 14.
