{"id":15882,"date":"2023-02-06T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?p=15882"},"modified":"2023-02-06T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:18:25","slug":"feb2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/feb2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Director\u2019s update: February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dylan Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n

It continues to be a privilege and pleasure to participate in shaping the work of the Center for Ideas and Society. I trust that this brief correspondence will help encourage you to attend, participate in, and organize activities that reflect the experimental, inter\/trans\/counter\/anti-disciplinary, creative character of the Center. As always, please feel free to reach out to me if you have ideas or questions: dylanrodriguez73.CIS@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Success! AFD Grant update<\/u> <\/strong>
\nI’m happy to report that the Faculty Commons Project<\/a> will continue to be supported through 2023-2024 as a result of our successful application for renewal of the UC Advancing Faculty Diversity (AFD) grant<\/a>. I especially wish to acknowledge the Center\u2019s Executive Katharine Henshaw and Grants and Finance Analyst Kathy Ann Hitchens for collaborating with me on this successful grant renewal. Crucially, the AFD grant will enable the expansion of the Faculty Commons Project to include two new and vital components: the creation of a Queer and Trans Studies Faculty Commons Group<\/strong>, and support for the heretofore unfunded work of the Dreaming Retention Think Tank<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Fall 2022 partial recap<\/u><\/strong>
\nA busy Fall 2022 quarter at the Center for Ideas and Society included several events co-sponsored by the Decolonizing Humanism(?)<\/a> programming stream i proudly curate, including:<\/p>\n