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Laura Bassi Scholarship Accepting Applicants

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in Winter 2024: Read More
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2024-25 DHI Working Groups: Calls for Proposals

The UC Davis Humanities Institute is offering Working Group (formerly Reading and Writing Groups) funding for graduate students in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences who are interested in forming groups for reading, writing, and research collaborations. Groups may apply for up to $500 to support their activities. Read More
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UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize

The UC Davis Library is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Library Graduate Prize. Graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research. Apply by December 6. Read More
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GREL Alum Chris Miller (2018, PhD) publishes new book; featured on New Books Podcast

Dr. Chris Jain Miller (2018. PhD) has recently published his book, Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing Transformation (Routledge, 2024). You can also listen to Miller (2018, PhD) speak about his co-edited volume, Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age (Lexington, 2019) on the popular podcast, New Books Network, hosted by Dr. Raj Balkaran. Read More
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2024-2025 Notes From The Field Lecture Series

The Department of Religious Studies will host a monthly informal lecture on religion by a faculty member or graduate student from UC Davis or a neighboring university campus. The lectures will offer a space for faculty to share their most recent research. Read More
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Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion

Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion, hosted by Northeastern University, is designed to address a gap between disciplinary expertise and effective communication strategies. Applications are now open for our final cohort of online public scholarship training for 12 scholars focused on race, justice, and religion, funded by the Henry R. Luce Foundation. The training will run from May through July 2024, with 8 training calls scheduled for Thursday afternoons, 3-4pm ET Read More
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Event - Towards a Counterhistory of the Western Canon | The “Original Fragments” of the Bible and Homer

Today, powerful forces push us to either idolize or neglect now-canonical works like Homer and the Bible, seeing them as either evidence of a unique Western genius or as exhausted and overplayed “greatest hits.” But before they were idols, worshipped or fallen, ancient Mediterranean cultural monuments were something quite different. This workshop will explore how the discoveries of criticism let us encounter them freshly, as if for the first time. Read More