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|  | Curating Hollywood history
UCI alumna on mission to bring history of Hollywood icons to the public | |
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|  | Climate change event featured keynote Bill McKibben
Event website recaps conference and spotlights related events | |
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|  | Asia (hyphen) America
UCI professor explores Asian American fiction, identity | |
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|  | Math geek/lit prof
UCI English professor explores intersection of Victorian mathematics and culture | |
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|  | Spotlight on Douglas M. Haynes
Historian leads campus-wide inclusion efforts and Center for Medical Humanities | |
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|  | Literary journalism at UCI: The backstory
The who, what, when, where and why of the only such major in the nation | |
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Textbook on Chinese poetry by UCI professor of East Asian studies awarded Buchanan Prize Michael A. Fuller won the award for his book An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty
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Professor emerita of history is awarded top honor in field of American foreign relations
Emily Rosenberg receives the 2018 Norman and Laura Graebner Award
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UCI-led study finds Harry Potter fan fiction challenges cultural stereotypes of autism
Digital media platforms enable marginalized groups to offer alternative representations
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The UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public's Fire & Ice conference hashtag #UCIclimate reached over one-million individuals and generated 18.1 million impressions on Twitter alone | |  | "Painkillers," a film by FMS alumna Roxy Shih, is now available on digital platforms | |
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| February 21, 2019 | 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.: Monuments, memories and the martyrs of 1900: China's Boxer Crisis revisited with Jeff Wasserstrom | HG 1341
Please join us for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of Chinese history, with
discussant Anne Walthall, professor emerita of Japanese history. The UCI Center for Asian Studies will present an annual series featuring faculty from UCI and regional institutions speaking on their current research projects–with a discussant from a different field, discipline or region. This colloquium takes its cue from a multi and interdisciplinary approach by including a screening of the recent film, "My Nephew Emmett," followed by a panel that includes graduate students and scholars that examine lynching violence and representation from their respective disciplines and research. Kevin Young has published ten books of poetry and two books of essays. His passionate, rhythmic lyrics are rich with scenes from American history. His latest book, Brown: Poems (2018) is a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and has been featured on NPR and many other national venues. Free and open to the public, but reserve your spot!
This film was born from the documentary recordings of a rehearsal process, which took the shape of a diary. The particular object that is being registered (a modernist composer trying to push forward an arid and impossible piece of music inside of an orchestra convulsed by union demands), is the heart of a film which assembles around that core like a set of Russian dolls. Natasha Trethewey is the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. Previously, Professor Trethewey spent 15 years at Emory University, most recently as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing. She served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014) and is the author of four collections of poetry, Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, Native Guard (for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize) and Thrall. Free and open to the public, but reserve your spot!
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| Destruction, mounds of litter, and vandalism have ensued. But why would anyone exploit such vulnerable national resources for selfish motives, faux perceptions of power, or bizarre satisfaction? "It's not only that they knew they wouldn't get caught, but they take delight in the destruction of the place," says Aaron James, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine and author of the book Assholes: A Theory.
No one can accuse Jack Miles of shying away from ticklish subjects. Following two acclaimed biographies, the Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography (1995) and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God (2001), Mr. Miles concludes his trilogy with an even more demanding challenge: Allah, the god of the Quran. The method of the author, an emeritus professor at the University of California, Irvine, is at once modest and radical. Mr. Miles does not claim to be writing an introduction to the Quran itself. His scope is narrower and more precisely defined. [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.]
During his 30 years at UC, a major outcome of [UC professor Armin] Schwegler's work has been reconstructing Latin America's African past through the history of Palenque, a 400-year-old Colombian community established by people of African ancestry who escaped the slave trade. Using their language, Palenque, Schwegler was able to find clues that helped determine the origins of the language and, subsequently, of the people who spoke it. [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.]
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UCI Chancellor's Professor of history, and Amy Hawkins write, "The different treatment of these texts and their titles helps illuminate the complicated reality of censorship in China. It's less comprehensive, less boot–on–the–face–as Orwell might have put it–and quirkier than many Westerners imagine."
Now a professor at the University of California at Irvine, [Andrew] Highsmith began his book as a Ph.D. dissertation in 2003 when his wife, a physician, was working in Flint and the couple bought a house on Paducah Street in Mott Park. His most significant finding, he said, was the history, persistence and contributing factors to the "color line." "But racism in the private marketplace wasn't enough to maintain Flint's rigid color lines. In fact, government at all levels played a role too."
The New York Times, Jan. 5, 2019 (Opinion)
Hollywood's Obsession With Cartels
Hector Tobar, UCI associate professor of English and Chicano/Latino Studies writes, "The cartel operative – be he a kingpin or a hit man or a small–time drug dealer – has become the dominant image of Latino people in American television and cinema. The dialogue and imagery of cartel movies associates Latino identity with inherent, pure evil again and again. It's time for Hollywood to ask: What message are we sending to the American public by asking this country's Latino actors to act out one execution–style killing after another?" [Subscription required, campus-wide access provided by UC Libraries. Sign-up here: AccessNYT.com]
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