{"id":17244,"date":"2025-10-15T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?page_id=17244"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:50:11","slug":"sustenance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/sustenance\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Graduate Student Virtual Conference 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column 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https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sustenance-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sustenance-800x400.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sustenance-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sustenance.jpg 1269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><style type='text\/css'>.reading-box-container-1 .element-bottomshadow:before,.reading-box-container-1 .element-bottomshadow:after{opacity:0.7;}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-reading-box-container reading-box-container-1\" style=\"--awb-title-color:#164056;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:25px;\"><div class=\"reading-box reading-box-center\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;border-width:1px;border-color:#f6f6f6;border-top-width:3px;border-top-color:var(--primary_color);border-style:solid;\"><h2>UC Graduate Student Virtual Conference\n<\/h2><div class=\"reading-box-additional fusion-reading-box-additional\">\n<h2>2026 Call for Proposals: &#8220;Sustenance&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-content-boxes content-boxes columns row fusion-columns-3 fusion-columns-total-3 fusion-content-boxes-1 content-boxes-icon-on-side content-left\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-hover-accent-color:#a31e39;--awb-circle-hover-accent-color:#a31e39;\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div style=\"--awb-backgroundcolor:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-content-padding-left:64px;\" class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-1 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-first-in-row\"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"heading heading-with-icon icon-left\"><div class=\"icon\"><i style=\"border-color:var(--awb-custom18);border-width:1px;background-color:var(--awb-custom18);box-sizing:content-box;height:42px;width:42px;line-height:42px;border-radius:50%;font-size:21px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fontawesome-icon fa-user-friends fas circle-yes\"><\/i><\/div><h2 class=\"content-box-heading\" style=\"--h2_typography-font-size:18px;line-height:23px;padding-left:64px;\">Eligibility<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"content-container\">\n<div>Graduate Students<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div style=\"--awb-backgroundcolor:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-content-padding-left:64px;\" class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-2 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 fusion-content-box-hover \"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"heading heading-with-icon icon-left\"><div class=\"icon\"><i style=\"border-color:var(--awb-custom18);border-width:1px;background-color:var(--awb-custom18);box-sizing:content-box;height:42px;width:42px;line-height:42px;border-radius:50%;font-size:21px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fontawesome-icon fa-calendar-alt fas circle-yes\"><\/i><\/div><h2 class=\"content-box-heading\" style=\"--h2_typography-font-size:18px;line-height:23px;padding-left:64px;\">Conference Date <\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"content-container\">\n<p>February 13, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div style=\"--awb-backgroundcolor:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-content-padding-left:64px;\" class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-3 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last content-box-column-last-in-row\"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"heading heading-with-icon icon-left\"><div class=\"icon\"><i style=\"border-color:var(--awb-custom18);border-width:1px;background-color:var(--awb-custom18);box-sizing:content-box;height:42px;width:42px;line-height:42px;border-radius:50%;font-size:21px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fontawesome-icon fa-pencil-alt fas circle-yes\"><\/i><\/div><h2 class=\"content-box-heading\" style=\"--h2_typography-font-size:18px;line-height:23px;padding-left:64px;\">Proposal Deadline<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"content-container\">\n<div>December 19, 2025<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-content-boxes content-boxes columns row fusion-columns-1 fusion-columns-total-1 fusion-content-boxes-2 content-boxes-clean-horizontal content-left content-boxes-icon-on-side\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-hover-accent-color:#a31e39;--awb-circle-hover-accent-color:#a31e39;--awb-item-margin-bottom:40px;\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div style=\"--awb-backgroundcolor:var(--awb-color2);border-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);\" class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-1 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last content-box-column-last-in-row\"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper-background link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"heading icon-left\"><h2 class=\"content-box-heading\" style=\"--h2_typography-font-size:18px;line-height:23px;\">Call for Proposals<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"content-container\">\n<p>The UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society invites proposals for a virtual conference that explores the theme of <strong>sustenance<\/strong>.\u00a0 All UC graduate students in the humanities are eligible to apply, as are students in the arts or social sciences with projects that make use of humanities methods, concepts, and theoretical frameworks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference date<\/strong>: February 13, 2026<br \/>\n<strong>Presentation proposal deadline<\/strong>: December 19, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proposal Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 24 proposals will be selected for 10-15 minute presentations, organized into panels and moderated by UCR faculty.<\/li>\n<li>Proposals should reflect creative, critical engagement with the concept of <strong>sustenance<\/strong> as a unifying idea, method, or theoretical approach<\/li>\n<li>Submissions should include title, abstract, and a description of how the proposal aligns with the conference theme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-content-boxes content-boxes columns row fusion-columns-1 fusion-columns-total-1 fusion-content-boxes-3 content-boxes-icon-on-side content-left\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:-20px;--awb-hover-accent-color:#a31e39;--awb-circle-hover-accent-color:#a31e39;--awb-item-margin-bottom:40px;\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div style=\"--awb-backgroundcolor:rgba(255,255,255,0);\" class=\"fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-1 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last content-box-column-last-in-row\"><div class=\"col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"heading icon-left\"><h2 class=\"content-box-heading\" style=\"--h2_typography-font-size:18px;line-height:23px;\">About the Conference Theme: Sustenance<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"content-container\">\n<p>The 2026 conference theme is drawn from the UC Humanities Research Center\u2019s programming initiative on &#8220;sustenance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When preparing your proposal, reflect on the following to help develop your engagement with the theme: How does a focus on sustenance constitute different ways of knowing and being in the world, including Black, queer, and feminist autonomous community projects, Indigenous stewardship, climate\/environmental justice, and the many forms of caregiving and kinkeeping performed by displaced, occupied, and marginalized communities around the world?<\/li>\n<li>How have different communities and economies of sustenance shaped the state of California? From the enormous agricultural industry to the innovations of \u201cCalifornia cuisine\u201d with its integration\u2014and gentrification\u2014of food cultures far and wide, sustenance has been a central aspect of our state and its history.<\/li>\n<li>How is sustenance indispensable in biological, social, cultural, and psychological terms? What other kinds of sustenance could and should figure in our thinking and imaginations? What are the cultural, social, and political implications of pursuing sustenance?<\/li>\n<li>How does sustenance, in its many forms, become sustainable? How do current environmental circumstances intensify the links between sustenance and sustainability? How does sustenance illuminate the environmental challenges facing local, state, and global communities?<\/li>\n<li>How is sustenance allocated? How does access to sustenance work, or not, and in whose interests? With what relevant histories of struggle? And with what sometimes tragic outcomes, including famine, food insecurity, and chronic disease?<\/li>\n<li>How does a humanistic, artistic, or qualitative social scientific approach to sustenance illuminate or critically challenge conventional understandings of foodways?<\/li>\n<li>How might sustenance cut across different historical periods, styles, scales, constituencies, and temporalities? How might it become an axis and\/or register of our perspectives on the world?<\/li>\n<li>What are the current and\/or historical connections between food, art, politics, and media aesthetics?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of sustenance will the university and education in general require in these challenging times?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*see <a href=\"https:\/\/uchri.org\/initiatives\/entanglement\/https:\/\/uchri.org\/initiatives\/sustenance\/https:\/\/uchri.org\/initiatives\/sustenance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">UCHRI\u2019s Sustenance initiative<\/a> for more inspiration<\/p>\n<p>For questions or more information: <a href=\"mailto:Katharine.Henshaw@ucr.edu\">Katharine.Henshaw@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and supported by a grant from the UC Humanities Network and the UC Office of the President.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-xlarge button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/UCGradCall\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">Apply Now<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17264,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17244\/revisions\/17264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}