Workshops
UCR Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities
Each year, five workshops will be selected for funding. Each workshop will be composed of a group of several faculty members and graduate students from different departments. A faculty sponsor and a graduate student coordinator will lead each group. Each workshop will be allocated a budget of $5,000 to support the group's activities, including the costs of bringing national and international visitors to UCR to participate in and/or lead group seminars. Groups will meet regularly, at least three times per quarter, throughout the year.
Workshop activities might include discussion of readings, individual presentations, guest lectures with question/answer sessions, and discussion of screenings or performance media. Activities could pursue a wide range of topics in diverse formats, including writing, reading, viewing, critique, and presentation of one's own or others' works, articles, books, dissertation chapters, theories, creative writing or poetry, cultural analyses, critical theory, films, and music. In the context of this program, the "humanities" are understood broadly to include the traditional disciplinary and newer interdisciplinary areas including the study of texts, performance, visual culture, humanistically oriented arts and social sciences, etc.