The Department of Asian American Studies was approved for a $750,000 grant for a proposed interdisciplinary program and designated emphasis focused on critical empire and militarism studies. The Department of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies was approved for a $500,000 grant to fund a three-year working group focused on building the field of trans studies.
Experimenting with Shakespeare contends that play is a method of knowledge-making and that Shakespearean theater can be a generative model for laboratory life. The book reflects on the history of the ModLab at UC Davis, an experimental media space bringing together computer scientists, historians of science, theorists of performance, literary scholars, and media designers.
A new exhibition at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art marks the first time the museum has commissioned all new work. Titled Phillip Byrne, Beatriz Cortez, Kang Seung Lee, Candice Lin: Entangled Writing, the exhibit is on view at the University of California, Davis museum through December.
Adele Zhang, senior continuing lecturer and design collection curator and manager, is the co-author of a new bilingual book, “Encountering the Global Textile Motifs” . Written with Kunyuan Li, a Ph.D in design studies from Jiangnan University, China, the book illustrates a colorful survey of ethno-textile designs from the UC Davis Jo Ann C. Stabb Design Collection and Han Costume Collection by Jiangnan University.
In Möbius Media, editors Jeffrey A. Tolbert and Michael Dylan Foster build on their earlier work looking at how folklore is understood through time and its modern-day commercialization. Exploring the interplay between popular culture and traditional culture, they consider the meaning of the word “folklore” and complicate understandings of cultural expressions and media.
Based on six years of fieldwork in rural northern California, Women and the Sikh Diaspora in California: Singing the Seven Seas reimagines the history of the South Asian diaspora. In the book, Nicole Ranganath examines the role of gender, water and land in the cultural history of Sikhs.
This book is the first extended study to offer new ways of interpreting textual and visual narratives through “kimono language”—what these garments communicate within their literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Reading the Kimono is at once an engaging history of the modern kimono and its representation, and a significant study of twentieth-century Japanese literature and film.
Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil by José Juan Pérez Meléndez charts the formation of early migration policy in Brazil in counterpoint to global processes. Professor Meléndez is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes on nineteenth-century Brazil in broad Atlantic and world history contexts.
From a first-generation college student to a doctoral candidate and Fulbright Graduate Scholar, Christina Dawa Kutsmana Thomas has become a role model for other "little rez kids." She's working to save her Indigenous language as well as pass on her family's culture to younger generations.
Students in this "Experimental Documentary" class were asked to investigate artificial intelligence. "Ghost AI," a film that grew from that assignment, explores ethical questions around its use, specifically when it comes to duplicating someone's likeness, voice or persona.
