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| Focusing on rights
UCI philosopher Margaret Gilbert urges the moral importance of our joint commitments
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| The colonial present
UCI historian authors book on race creation in colonial America and its impact today
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| Birthday Bard
Shakespeare is alive and well on the UCI campus
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| Two UCI Humanities professors awarded Guggenheim fellowships
Amy Gerstler and Ed Dimendberg receive prestigious award out of 3,000 applicants
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| UCI Chancellor's Professor of art history earns NEH grant and CASVA fellowship Cécile Whiting to complete book on WWII landscape artists
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| Beyond the pen
UCI English professor co-edits book on digital writing and rhetoric
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| Fulbright's finest: UCI rates as top-producing school for prestigious international exchange program. Felicidad "Bliss" Cua Lim, associate professor of film & media studies, is using her Fulbright grant to conduct research in the Philippines for her book on the dismal state of the nation's film archive. Based on interviews, scholarly and popular sources, government reports, legal statutes and Southeast Asian archivists' newsletters, Lim will reconstruct the lost history of Philippine film archiving. Click here to read. The many faces of Xi Jinping (video): Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of history, examines the political career of Xi Jinping from a historical and comparative perspective. Click here to watch. The Gateway, a digital publication geared to current and former Ph.D. students in the UCI Humanities, has just published its spring edition. The new edition features an alumni spotlight on Will Jordan '14, a software engineer for a nonprofit, and reflections from Jessica Conte, Ph.D. candidate in East Asian languages & literatures. Click here to read.
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Humanities on social media
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At Celebrate UCI, we welcomed our admitted students and provided them with a number of fun and educational events | |  |
On UCI's second-ever Giving Day, we raised $5,100 for student support | | 
Aditi Mayer, double-major in literary journalism and international studies, is the founder and editor-in-chief of InSight Magazine, a student-run publication exploring poverty and inequality in Southern California | |
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| May 2: MFA Programs in Writing presents a reading by poet F. Douglas Brown
6:00 p.m. | Humanities Instructional Building 135
F. Douglas Brown is the author of Icon (Writ Large Press 2018), and Zero to Three (University of Georgia Press 2014), winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Prize. He also co-authored with poet Geffrey Davis, Begotten (Upper Rubber Boot Books 2016), a chapbook of poetry published as part of URB's Floodgate series. Brown, an educator for over 20 years, teaches English at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, an all-boys Jesuit school, and holds fellowships from Cave Canem and Kundiman. He is the co-founder and curator of un::fade::able, a quarterly poetry reading series which honors the legacy of Sandra Bland while examining restorative justice, and ways to address racism through poetry. Free and open to the public.
May 3: Gender, Race, Sovereignty, and Self-Defense: The Yvonne Wanrow Case and its Legacy
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | UCI School of Law, Room Edu 1111
Please join us for a conversation with Yvonne Swan (formerly Wanrow). Swan (Sinixt Arrow Lakes/Colville) was charged with murder by the State of Washington in 1972 for shooting a white man who broke into her friend's home. The man had previously attacked her son and sexually assaulted her friend's seven-year-old daughter. Her case became a rallying point for indigenous and feminist activists in the 1970s to highlight intersections of colonialism and gender violence as well as racism and sexism in the U.S. criminal justice system. Although Swan's assailant was not an intimate partner, her case resulted in a landmark decision related to arguments of self-defense for survivors of domestic violence. For more than four decades, Swan has continuously worked for the self-determination of indigenous peoples. She is currently Vice President of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee board. This event is free and open to the public.
May 4: The Absurd
9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Humanities Gateway 1030
We call absurd a system in which the inferences we draw from a certain set of premises contradict those very premises. Yet, what would happen if human existence were itself part of such a system? How would the life and the condition of humans be any different from the one we experience? In post-WW2 France these questions became so central in art, literature and philosophy, that the substantive "the absurd" was invented to refer to the works of a heterogeneous set of writers which featured among others Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eugène Ionesco and Jean Genet.
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To view all School of Humanities events, please visit our calendar here.
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| "'It involves an extremely rigorous screening and selection,' says newly named fellow and UC Irvine humanities professor Edward Dimendberg. 'You don't just get a Guggenheim. There are all these levels of screening, committees and then the board of trustees.' ...'I'm on cloud nine still,' he says of receiving the award." Daily Pilot, April 12, 2018
Guilty or not guilty? It's Shakespearean drama as UCI law school deans face off in mock trial of Hamlet
For one night, the Irvine Barclay Theatre was transformed into a courtroom where Song Richardson, the dean of UCI Law, defended the fictional Danish prince against a charge of first-degree murder in the killing of Polonius. The prosecutor was played by Erwin Chemerinsky, UCI Law's founding dean and now dean of UC Berkeley's law school. U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford moderated the event as the two presented their case to the jury—the audience—which ultimately determined Hamlet's fate.
Daily Pilot, April 19, 2018 "Most Americans may not know a lot about Vietnamese Americans," said Linda Vo, an Asian American studies professor at UC Irvine and co-curator of the exhibition. The idea for 'Viet Stories' originated years ago, when Vo and Le were organizing a Vietnamese American oral history project out of UC Irvine."
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An extensive list of faculty in the media can be found here.
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