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|  | Four reasons the future will rely on humanities majors
As new technological and scientific advancements are made, humanists are needed at every turn | |
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|  | Connecting history
UCI professor spotlights Armenian revolutionaries | |
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|  | Early education advocate
UCI alumnus puts humanities in action | |
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|  | Zine queen
UCI professor's teaching and scholarship make space for marginalized voices | |
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|  | Cinema of financial despair
UCI professor's book explores cinema after South Korea's economic collapse | |
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|  | Penning protest
UCI professors edit anthology of unruly writing | |
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Dean Tyrus Miller in Washington, D.C. to advocate for humanities funding on National Humanities Alliance Advocacy Day. | |  |
Erin Gruwell (English '91), founder and executive director of the Freedom Writers Foundation moderated the panel for the webinar, "UC Virtual Career Series: Unique ways to use your humanities degree." If you missed it, you can find the link to the recording on our Facebook page. | |  |
Did you know you can take a course on Disneyland at UCI? It's true! Roland Betancourt, associate professor of art history and visual studies, is teaching a course titled "Disneyland: Art, Architecture, and Operation." | |
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| On Soul of a Nation's opening day, The Broad will present a day of enriching conversations, artist talks and poetry, organized by UC Irvine professors Bridget R. Cooks (associate professor, Department of African American Studies and Art History, UC Irvine) and Frank B. Wilderson III (professor and chair of African American Studies, UC Irvine). The event will include compelling conversations between artists featured in the exhibition as well as renowned art historians and curators. "Our Bodies Our Doctors" tells the rarely-discussed story of what it means to be an abortion provider today: confronting threats of violence and facing intensified political threats and efforts to criminalize abortion. Religious control over health care is expanding, including in many pro-choice states. Professor Talar Chahinian holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from UCLA and lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, where she is also a research associate in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research interests include Western Armenian language and literature, transnational studies, politics and aesthetics, and translation. Jordy Rosenberg's 2018 Confessions of the Fox is a moving, funny, rowdy speculative-historical novel full of sex, philosophy, and revolution. A transgender writer and scholar, Jordy Rosenberg teaches eighteenth-century transatlantic literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For this event, he will be reading from his novel and discussing the "unreal realities" of queer history and political theory that inspired it.
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To view all School of Humanities events, please visit our calendar here.
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| In the age of #MeToo, rape and sexual assault have been consistently in the news. Debates abound about what counts as rape, whose testimony we should believe, and too often, men with power and privilege get away with it. But though it feels pressing right now, none of those debates are new. Join Sarah and Marissa as they look for context for today's debates in [UCI Professor of History] Sharon Block's important book, Rape and Sexual Power in Early America. Andrew Tonkovich, a lecturer in UC Irvine's English department, said he saw the UCI rally as a student-led response to a university symposium last month called "Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narrative of Climate Change." "I think the last two years have seen a remarkable upswing in student activism at this campus," said Tonkovich, who has worked at the university for 20 years. "It thrills me, frankly." [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.] Still, I talked to Doug Haynes, vice provost for Academic Equity, Diversity and Inclusion [and professor of history] at UCI, and he emphasized that thousands of first-generation college students are getting world-class educations at California's public universities in particular. The scandal, he said, is troubling in large part because it erodes students' trust in those institutions. "They put their faith in the university to provide clear criteria and confidence in an admissions process that is based on their past achievements and future promise," Mr. Haynes said. "I think that bond, that trust is so important because it helps distinguish us from other higher education systems in the world." [Subscription required, campus-wide access provided by UCI Libraries. Sign-up here: AccessNYT.com] Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, UCI Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature, who is often tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature, has issued a new collection of short stories. The man who oversaw the construction of China's first two aircraft carriers is on trial in Shanghai for corruption and also, according to press reports, for passing along information to foreign agents. But nothing is going to save Sun [Bo] if he is convicted of giving up Liaoning's secrets. "This one's really huge — it's the aircraft carrier!" says Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UCI Chancellor's Professor of history. Lu Xun has been often been called the father of modern Chinese literature. But - like his life - Lu Xun's work doesn't easily fit under any simple banner and reflects the turbulent, confusing and contradictory history of China in the first three decades of the 20th century. Quentin Cooper talks to Professor Eileen Cheng [and others including] Professor Hu Ying from the University of California [Irvine] who studies the culture of early 20th century China and writer Yiyun Li.
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