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UCI professor's dedication keeps Shakespeare 'thriving' in O.C.
Julia Lupton, co-director of UCI's Shakespeare Center, has devoted the bulk of her career to researching and sharing his works on and off campus
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Food for thought
UCI's Virtuous Table series of themed meals provides physical, intellectual and spiritual sustenance
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Inventing madness
New book by UCI historian traces how madness became mental illness in modern China
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A guest lecturer with gravitas
Chancellor Howard Gillman, an expert on free speech, addresses literary journalism class studying it
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The art of living
UCI alumna LaVonne Smith '94 has led a colorful life, supports various School of Humanities endeavors
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#TodayIMet: Nida Chowdhry
UCI alumna Nida Chowdhry '09 launches YouTube series to increase representation of South Asian and Muslim stories
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Italian professor wins translation prize
Deanna Shemek has won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women's prize for best translation of a woman's work
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Rewriting ancient Iran
New book by UCI professor examines 1,000 years of Iranian history
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Ruiz receives Apple of Gold for Excellence in Education
Awarded by the Hispanic Education Endowment Fund, honor recognizes the historian's work in higher ed
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| Support the School of Humanities' 2nd-annual fundraiser for the FRESH Basic Needs Hub
School aims to raise $20,000 by Thanksgiving
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Live-Tweets from the UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public's latest pop-up panel
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Cerritos College students visit the UCI Library's Shakespeare First Folio and Shakespeareana
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| November 15, 2018| 5-6:30 p.m.: "The 1970's Revisited: Reflections by Two Historians" with Nils Gilman & Michael Koncewicz | Humanities Instructional Building (HIB) 110
Michael Koncewicz will be giving the talk "Resistance During the Watergate Era: Looking Back at the Republicans Who Defied Nixon," which draws from his new book They Said No to Nixon. Koncewicz is an assistant research scholar at New York University, where he oversees the Cold War archival collections at the Tamiment Library. Koncewicz is an alumni of UCI's History graduate program and received his Ph.D. in 2014.
Nils Gilman will be giving the talk "Why Modernization Theory Never Dies." Nils Gilman has recently been named the vice president of programs at the Berggruen Institute. He most recently served three years as chief of staff to the chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, and before that in a variety of senior roles at enterprise software companies, management consulting firms, and research institutions. The author of Mandarins of the Future (2004) among many other works, he has a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in American History from UC Berkeley.
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Christine Laffin of the University of British Columbia will talk about Ishimure Michiko's Noh Play "Okinomiya," which Ishimure wrote just before her death earlier this year at age ninety.
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To view all School of Humanities events, please visit our calendar here.
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of history at UC Irvine and others write, "Disturbing things have been happening in China lately. … Taken together, however, the dots connect to present a clear—and distressing—picture of China's course under President Xi Jinping. For all its talk of moving forward, the country is in many ways returning to the past, with its officials and leaders displaying a new brazenness in their crackdown." [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.]
The Cornell Daily Sun, Oct. 23, 2018
Professor Compares Current China to '1984' and 'Brave New World'
"To understand current China, I say read 1984 and Brave New World," said Prof. Jeff Wasserstrom, history, University of California, Irvine during a lecture on Chinese politics …. The lecture focused specifically on Xi Jinping's presidency and his removal of presidential term limits on March 10, 2018. Wasserstrom compared Xi's recent ascent to power with that of past Chinese leaders Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, as well as that of Pope Francis.
Advocate, Oct. 17, 2018
Commemorating Two Forgotten Figures of Stonewall-Era Gay Film
Finley Freibert, Ph.D. candidate in Visual Studies at University of California, Irvine writes, "The past two years saw the loss of two of the major figures of early LGBTQ cinema, Shan Sayles and Monroe Beehler. … In addition to their significance to LGBTQ film history they should also both be remembered for their struggles for first amendment rights against antigay censorship regimes, both local and national."
History Channel, Oct. 10, 2018
When Sexual Assaults Made History
Incidents of sexual violence have long been a brutal part of the human story. … "Women are erased," says Sharon Block, professor of history at University of California, Irvine and the author of Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America. "The historic rapes that 'mattered' are the only ones where men saw themselves damaged."
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