We invite faculty, students, trainees, and staff to submit writing, photo essays, and art to the inaugural UCSF Health Humanities Review.
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The UCHRI, working with the broader UC Humanities Network of humanities institutes and centers, has chosen “sustenance” as its 2025-26 theme around which students and faculty are invited to exchange ideas and build collaborative engagement. As articulated on the UCHRI website, “Sustenance is closely linked to sustainability, not least through their shared Latin roots. Given the past year and our contentious present—with both wildfires and politics searing across California—the sustainability of our natural and human-made worlds has loomed large and will continue to complicate and to challenge.”
Among the questions that help stimulate our thinking about sustenance, both metaphorically and materially, one might consider:
- How has sustenance—including the communities and economies around it—helped shape the state of California?
- 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?
- What kind of sustenance will the university and education in general require in these challenging times?
Our volume will be published by the UC Health Humanities Press (founded in 2010) and will be available in paperback as well as open-access PDF through eScholarship Repository and Johns Hopkins University’s Project Muse.
Submissions can be as short as one photo or drawing, or up to 8,000-words for creative writing. We welcome essays, historical articles, reflective writing, poems, or short stories. Each contribution will be screened for potential inclusion by a review panel organized by Dr. Brian Dolan (UCSF Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences) and Dr. Matthew Bucknor (UCSF Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging) with assistance from faculty advisors at the UCSF Center for Health Humanities.
This call is open to students and faculty working within medical centers across the UC system. New deadline for submission of any contribution is June 30, 2026. The volume will be published in Fall 2026.
Please submit entries directly to Dr. Brian Dolan, Professor and Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCSF and co-Director of UCSF Center for Health Humanities. [email protected]
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