{"id":11918,"date":"2019-03-06T08:47:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T16:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?p=11918"},"modified":"2019-03-06T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:20:52","slug":"spirited-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/30\/spirited-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spirited Exchange of Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 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\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>In 1990, the Center\u2019s Resident Faculty Program sponsored three, quarter-long faculty groups the members of which, relieved of teaching for the quarter, met each week with an ambitious plan: to pursue their own research alongside a collective, interdisciplinary agenda. The first year, eighteen scholars attempted to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>At first, results were mixed. Contrasting methods and research \u2018languages\u2019 forced the group members to set aside the first few weeks simply to listen. From this deep listening grew a rich, interdisciplinary conversation\u2014a \u201cspirited exchange\u201d\u2014in which \u201cassumptions underlying the different disciplines\u201d were laid bare and participants learned to \u201cshape a dialogue that was both challenging and constructive.\u201d By the end of each quarter\u2019s residency, scholars emerged with a new appreciation for their colleagues, a renewed vigor for their own research and a heightened \u201cawareness of the problems and possibilities\u201d of interdisciplinary collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Though much changed between the first and last years of the program, its positive impact persisted. In its last two years, twenty fellows from twelve different disciplines coalesced into what one group called a \u201ccommunity of people that support[ed] each other\u2026construct[ed] knowledge together\u201d and whose interactions \u201ccreated a ripple effect\u201d that reached well-beyond the groups\u2019 members own research and careers.<\/p>\n<p>After 2015, the Center halted the program due to budget constraints. Yet its spirit lives on. For the past four years the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has supported the Advancing Intercultural Studies project, hosting a series of eight interdisciplinary seminars comprised of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates released from teaching and work obligations to pursue collaborative research over a quarter. In addition, a grant from the University of California Office of the President is funding the Center\u2019s Faculty Commons Pilot Project, which supports five faculty workshops on themes of mutual interest, while another Mellon grant, \u201cInvesting in Humanities Faculty\u201d is supporting four or five faculty fellows in year-long residencies through 2023, with two additional years of programming through 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em>Quotes drawn from archived reports and survey responses: Steven Axelrod (1990), Ben Stoltzfus (1991) and Covadanga Lamar Prieto, Elizabeth Davis and Robb Hern\u00e1ndez (2014).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Faculty-Research-Resident-Fellows-List-1.pdf\">Resident Faculty 1990 &amp; 2013-15<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11918"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11951,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918\/revisions\/11951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}