[Chass-gradstudents] Fwd: UCHRI Winter Newsletter: AI Research & Grants Due Next Week

[Perla Fabelo]

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Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Subject: UCHRI Winter Newsletter: AI Research & Grants Due Next Week
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Funding Opportunities. AI Research. Sustenance Events.

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*Grant Applications Due January 19*

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close on January 19, 2026. Available funding includes support for faculty
working groups, an expanded manuscript workshop and research development
program, an intercampus mentorship program, publicly-engaged humanities
projects, dissertation awards, and more. We especially encourage proposals
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*UC Humanities Network Collaborates on Sustenance Programming * Interested
in attending a Sustenance event on your campus? Check out UCSC’s
events on parenting
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on January 20 and February 14, UCR’s UC Graduate Student Virtual Conference
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on February 13 and UCHRI’s conversation on hunger
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violence, and craving in America on March 5.
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*UCHRI Welcomes Lucy Fang, Graduate Student Researcher * Our newest team
member is a UC Irvine English PhD scholar of Asian/American literature with
experience in Chinese-English translation and freelance photography. Learn
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Explore current UCHRI research interests and initiatives by delving into
these Foundry pieces contemplating the future of critical AI studies.
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*AI Paradigm * In his introduction to the series
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UCHRI Director Jaimey Fisher reflects on pieces that grew out of an AI
conference
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UCHRI co-hosted in 2024 and announces the work of a newly formed AI Task
Force. Ricky Crano (UCI) expands on the concept of the AI paradigm
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that structured the initial conference, encouraging readers to approach its
discourse with a dose of skepticism, while Lisa Parks (UCSB) discusses the
so-called AI mania
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or the simultaneous wonder and dread inherent in conversations about AI.
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Rita Raley (UCSB) and Colin Milburn (UCD) focus on (in)appropriate AI
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dissecting the historical and contemporary relationships of universities to
AI and the technologies and intellectual property required to create it.
Finally, Lauren Goodlad (Rutgers), editor-in-chief and co-founder of
the Critical
AI
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journal, returns us to the writing subject
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which she argues has become increasingly foreclosed by generative AI,
urging us to rethink how we deploy reading, writing, and the humanities
more broadly.
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