May 14, 2025 | Events

Practices in Gratitude for the Earth

WEDS JUNE 4; CAROLEE SHIELDS WHITE FLOWER GARDEN AND GAZEBO, UCD ARBORETUM. We invite UC Davis students, staff, faculty, and Davis community members to join us in an event practicing gratitude for the Earth, organized by Isabelle Woodruff-Madeira, American Studies Major and Imagining America Intern.

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May 1, 2025 | News & Press

Apply for PAGE & IA/JGS Fellowships

Imagining America is pleased to announce that our 2025-2026 fellowship programs for graduate and undergraduate students is now open! The PAGE Fellowship applications close on May 31, 2025, and IA/JGS Fellowship applications close on July 15, 2025.

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April 26, 2025 | Events

Building Communities of Care

WEDS, JUNE 4; ONLINE, VIA ZOOM. We invite all Imagining America members and friends to come together in an open forum facilitated by IA Faculty Director, Erica Kohl-Arenas and and invited guests from the IA network to gather information, provide peer support, and facilitate connection in these times.

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April 16, 2025 | IA Hubbub

IA Hubbub, Ep 2: Abundance

The second episode of the IA Hubbub features interviews with Wintun/Maidu cultural practitioner, naturalist, artist, and story-teller Diana Almendariz, and with UC Davis entomologist Geoffrey Attardo. The episode takes us on a wide-ranging journey through Diana’s visual art practice, her collaboration with Geoffrey around wetland restoration, and how her image-making practice is informed by her work as a naturalist.

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March 20, 2025 | IA Hubbub

IA Hubbub, Ep 1: Cultural Fire

The first episode of the IA Hubbub (a new podcast series on art, ecology, and public scholarship) looks at the Tending and Gathering Garden, an eco-cultural site in the Yolo Bioregion which is at the forefront of hands-on, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational learning that weaves together native and non-native communities, and university and community contexts. Explore the series on our website, and listen/subscribe to episodes on Podbean and iTunes.

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