{"id":15226,"date":"2022-06-07T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?p=15226"},"modified":"2022-06-07T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:04:27","slug":"changes-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/changes-and-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of changes and opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear colleagues and friends,<\/p>\n

At last, summer is around the corner \u2013 after what felt like an unusually long and demanding academic year. We did get a lot done at the Center for Ideas and Society, with the revamping of our internal structure, two new event streams designed by Dylan and me with Katharine\u2019s input, and a variety of activities on zoom and in person, most notably perhaps our two impromptu zoom events at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, attended by a lot of you.<\/p>\n

We were also dealing with an unexpected event at the beginning of spring quarter: the abrupt loss of our home in College Building South, which gave us a big headache Luckily, we now have a new temporary home on the top floor of College Building North<\/strong>, right next door. Please come and join us there for in-person events, starting in the fall (fingers crossed)!<\/p>\n

That said, I will be on leave for the entire year of 2022\/23<\/strong>, on a fellowship at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS).<\/strong> While I am very much looking forward to the extended time in Germany, I also know that I will miss UCR and the CIS. I am planning to participate in a couple of events each quarter, and I will be returning to SoCal for several weeks in the spring. In my absence, Dylan and Katharine will take care of most of the CIS programming, with the exception of a few events that have already been in the making for the \u201cBeing Human\u201d event stream.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to update you on a couple of other things: \u201cBeing Human\u201d is partnering with UCR Arts for the 2024 Pacific Standard Time (PST) <\/strong>initiative, a collaboration of art institutions across SoCal, made possible largely through Getty Foundation grants. We are planning for additional programming around the CMP\u2019s \u201cDigital Capture\u201d project, which is part of PST. A huge thank you to our Vice Provost for International Affairs, Marko Princevak<\/strong>, who agreed to fund our first international CIS Visiting Scholar for this project collaboration with the CMP, and to Susan Laxton<\/strong> (Art History) and Judith Rodenbeck<\/strong> (MCS) for taking the helm on things.<\/p>\n

Conversations with the Getty Research Institute and Museum <\/strong>have been started about joint events with the CIS on our Palm Desert Campus in 2023\/24<\/strong>, such as curator talks and events with guest scholars. Another set of conversations with the Medical School and the Center for Health Disparities Research as part of a new CIS \u201cConnecting Colleges\u201d initiative is underway; the series of joint discussions with physicians<\/strong> (When Will This Pandemic End?, What Happens When We Nearly Die?<\/em>) will be continued with an event on Life at all Costs?<\/em> in 2022\/23.<\/p>\n

Finally, a heartfelt shout-out to our donors Barbara Brink<\/strong> and Georgia Elliott<\/strong> for generously sponsoring two graduate student travel grants to Germany in 2022\/23. We never have enough of those, and their contribution to the education of our graduate students will make a big difference! You will hear from us from Berlin in this newsletter.<\/p>\n

If you have ideas for events or collaborations, please do not hesitate to be in touch! My involvement with the CIS will be noticeably reduced in 2022\/23, but I am looking forward to robust and energetic planning for the year after.<\/p>\n

Warmly, wishing you a productive and calm summer,
\nJeanette<\/p>\n<\/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":[100,52],"tags":[564],"class_list":["post-15226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors-corner","category-news","tag-jeanette-kohl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226"}],"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=15226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15234,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions\/15234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}