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| Writing mothers back into history
UCI Ph.D. candidate broadens historical record to include mothers in the Mexican Revolution
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| An underdog turned Anteater for life
UCI alumnus gives back to university for its life-changing experience
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| Fighting 'fake-news' and other daily falsehoods
UCI philosophers make new pathways to knowledge through innovative epistemology
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| UCI professor emeritus of history makes legacy gift
$500,000 endowment will support graduate students in history
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| Putting Armenia on the map for future generations
Vahe and Armine Meghrouni fund several Armenian history and language initiatives at UCI
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| Three UCI Humanities professors to collaborate on international translation project: Liron Mor, assistant professor of comparative literature, Jane O. Newman, professor of comparative literature, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Distinguished Professor of comparative literature, will lead a UCI Humanities Commons-initiated collaboration with colleagues from Chile, England, and South Africa on a Global Humanities Institute (GHI) on the "Challenges of Translation," funded by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the Mellon Foundation. Click here to learn more. UCI-created computer game that immerses players in 19th-century Ghana wins bronze medal in the 2018 International Serious Play Awards: UCI professors Magda El Zarki, professor of computer science and director of UCI's Institute for Virtual Environments & Computer Games; Patricia Seed, professor of history; and Jessica Kernan, industry professional and institute staff member, developed the game to teach middle schoolers about the culture of 19th-century Ghana. To learn more about the award, click here. To learn more about the game, and the historian behind it, click here.
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Three UCI Humanities scholars receive support from the University of California Humanities Research Institute | |
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Alumna Michaela Holland '16 to premier innovative virtual-reality documentary "FACE to FACE" at the prestigious Sheffield Doc/Fest | |  | Spanish & political science double-major Kimberly Escalante spoke to Anaheim High School students to encourage them to pursue a UC education | |  |
Congratulations to senior and Korean studies major Madeline Collins for receiving a Fulbright Fellowship | |
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| May 31: Understanding the U.S./North Korea Crisis: A Pop-Up Panel featuring Barbara Demick of the LA Times
2-3:30 p.m. | Humanities Gateway 1010
The Forum for the Academy and the Public will host a wide-ranging discussion of the U.S./North Korea crisis, with Barbara Demick of the LA Times joining UCI experts via SKYPE. UCI experts include: David Fedman, assistant professor of Japanese and Korean history; Kyung Kim, professor of East Asian languages and literatures and director of the Center for Critical Korean Studies; and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of history and modern China expert (moderator). Our special guest, Barbara Demick, is the author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (winner of the BBC's Samuel Johnson Prize). She has written about Asia for both the Los Angeles Times and the The New Yorker.
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May 31: Protest Cities of 1968
4-6:00 p.m. | Humanities Gateway 1010
Join UCI faculty, colleagues and students for brief film presentations and discussions of the urban protests that shook the world in 1968.
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June 5: The 1960s, In Theory
12:30-2:00 p.m. | Humanities Gateway 1030
In the 50th anniversary year of May '68, three of our most notable critical theorists whose contributions to theory in the context of different if related colonial contexts all took off in that decade will engage in a discussion of "The 60s, in Theory." Featuring UCI's Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ackbar Abbas, with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University), the discussion will range across reflections on the 60s in and from different contexts, on the theoretical turn from the 60s on, on the politics of these turns and re-turns, and on their connections to each other then and since.
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To view all School of Humanities events, please visit our calendar here.
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| Erika Hayasaki, associate professor in the Literary Journalism Program, writes: "Twin studies have historically been some of the most valuable genetic research tools in the world—contributing a century of data to our knowledge of human behavioral, medical, and physical traits." The Times Literary Supplement, May 15, 2018
From the Little Red Book to the Big White one
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of history, writes: "Looking back to the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, when China was controversially selected to be the 'guest of honour' nation, I find that the back and forth over dissent and freedom of expression (which fascinated me then) seems less interesting than something I barely noticed at the time: a dog that didn't bark. I don't recall seeing any books by or images of Hu Jintao, then China's paramount leader, in the Chinese official display area." The New York Times, May 11, 2018
Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning by Professor of Philosophy Aaron James is featured in the NY Times. Daily Pilot, May 3, 2018 Aditi Mayer [UCI literary journalism major] surveyed the gathering crowd in the Viewpoint Gallery inside UC Irvine's Student Center. She alternated between craning her neck and subtle pacing as the room began to fill up before the start of InSight Magazine's launch event on April 24. The student-run publication out of UC Irvine's Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation focuses on poverty and inequality in Southern California.
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An extensive list of faculty in the media can be found here.
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Interested in learning how you can support the vital work of our faculty and student scholars? Please reach out to SOHDevelopment@uci.edu to learn how you can make a difference.
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