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| UCI welcomes Matthew P. Canepa as Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History & Archaeology of Ancient Iran Noted art historian joins UCI's Department of Art History, Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, and Persian Studies Center
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| Latinx leaders
To mark Hispanic Heritage Month, we highlight some exceptional Anteaters
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| UCI and Farhang Foundation partner to enhance the study and appreciation of Persian history and culture
Partnership results in a minor in Persian studies, signature conference and campus-wide events
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| Keeping Japan's past at the forefront of scholarship
UCI professor emerita of history funds $2M endowed chair in pre-modern Japanese studies
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| From mentee to mentor
Having been where they are now, history professor David Igler has a lasting influence on first-generation students
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| Renowned UCI chemist supports breakthroughs in Armenian studies
Ara and Alice Apkarian make $100,000 gift to support graduate students in Armenian studies
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| Excavating antiquity
UCI professor examines artifacts of the past and explores their impact today
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| The modern Middle Ages
UCI professor on mission to broaden history of non-normative identities in the Byzantine Empire
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UCI School of Humanities welcomes Dean Tyrus Miller and nine new faculty | |  |
Catherine Sameh earns Hellman Fellowship | |  | Vicki Ruiz named scholar-in-residence at Occidental's Institute for the Study of L.A. | |
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Did you miss the UCI Forum for the Academy & the Public's pop-up event on the Brett Kavanaugh controversy? Read the live-Tweets via @ UCIHumanities | |  |
Alumna Michaela Holland '16 brings home an Emmy for her innovative virtual-reality storytelling | |  |
Why criticism? Dean Tyrus Miller explains the term & its role in the humanities | |
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| As part of the UCI Illuminations Authors Series, please join us for a book talk led by author Min Jin Lee who will discuss her novel Pachinko. Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan.
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| This talk explores the connections and divergences among three Filipino women—Encarnacion Alzona, Ines Cayaban, and Pacita Abadwho—who migrated to the United States at different times during the twentieth century, led singular careers in education, public health, and visual art, and left documentation of their lives and work for posterity. In doing so, they reveal the opportunities, but also constraints, of the legacy of the U.S. colonial presence in the Philippines.
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| At this concert, poems of Mawlana Rumi, "The Story of the Repentent Harper" or "The Story of Hazrat Pir Changi," will be sung by Mrs. Shayandokht Abedinimanesh. Mr. Ali Pajooheshgar has composed this concert and will play the Oud and also will narrate the poems of Rumi for the audience. Simultaneously, Professor Noureddin Zarrinkelk (the father of Iranian animation) will depict Rumi's poems via his paintings and calligraphy. The special guest artist Mr. Mehrdad Arabifard is the percussionist and Ms. Naghmeh Sarang is the Kamancheh player.
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| Professor Thompson will discuss the exhibit and its consequences, her work with former detainees, and the unlikely way that pictures of beaches have reopened the debate about the future of Guantánamo. She will also discuss the legal aspects of the situation.
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To view all School of Humanities events, please visit our calendar here.
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| Los Angeles Review of Books, Sep. 30, 2018 The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don't (Book review)
"I'd be happy to see [UCI Distinguished Professor] Ngugi wa Thiong'o honored. What a career and against what odds: from writing the first modern novel in Kikuyu – in prison, on toilet paper – to a foundational trilogy on Kenyan independence to his dazzling magical-realist masterpiece, Wizard of the Crow, and, recently, a shelf of memoirs."
Artnet, Sep. 20, 2018 "In the aftermath, optimism quickly fractured as 'political correctness became a kind of buzzword,' says Bridget Cooks, a professor of African American studies and art history at the University of California, Irvine. 'There had been a blossoming of visibility and then this became a way to handle it, wrap it up, and shut it down. There was a sense that 'this is no longer art.' It further polarized people in terms of next steps.'"
The Atlantic, Sep. 16, 2018
Patsy Takemoto Mink's Trailblazing Testimony Against a Supreme Court Nominee
"'Her personal experience with gender discrimination fueled her desire to make sure other people didn't have that experience,' said Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, the chair of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine, who is writing a biography of Mink with her daughter."
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An extensive list of faculty in the media can be found here.
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