The New York Review of Books, June 6, 2019
[UCI Professor] Matthew Canepa's The Iranian Expanse is a highly original study of the manner in which the succession of rulers of Iran, from the time of the Achaemenids (550–330 BCE) to that of the Sasanians (224–651 CE), manipulated collective memory through the creation of stunning monuments at important locations in their empires. Canepa is at his best when discussing the Sasanian dynasty, which did the most to challenge Rome for control of the Middle East. [Matthew Canepa is the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History & Archaeology of Ancient Iran].
Daily Pilot, June 1, 2019
Don't stop them now, because come Monday night, members of the UC Irvine community are gonna have a good time when the university's 20th annual student film festival, Zotfest, opens at the Irvine Barclay Theatre with the musical short film "Don't Stop Us Now." [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.]
Fast Company, June 1, 2019
Erika Hayasaki, a teacher in the Literary Journalism Program at the University of California, Irvine, writes, "Apart from the X and Y sex chromosomes, we inherit two copies of every gene in our bodies–one from our mother and one from our father. Werner syndrome is what's called an autosomal recessive disorder, meaning it only shows when a person inherits a mutated version of a gene called WRN from both parents."
KPCC, May 31, 2019 (Audio)
Galaxy's Edge—the hugely-hyped, 14-acre, Star-Wars themed addition to SoCal's most popular amusement park opens Friday. In honor of the event, we thought we'd examine what makes Disneyland, Disneyland. So prepare to be schooled....literally. There's a class at the University of California Irvine, called "Disneyland: Art, Architecture and Operation." Guest: Roland Betancourt, UCI professor. [Roland Betancourt is associate professor of art history and visual studies. His interview starts at 38:19]
Art Matters, May 28, 2019
According to a statement from University of California Irvine (UCI) where Ngugi wa Thiong'o teaches English and Comparative Literature, the Kenyan academic has been awarded the 15th biennial Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.
Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2019
Jon Wiener is a professor of history emeritus at UC Irvine and a contributing editor at The Nation, where he hosts the podcast "Start Making Sense." [He writes] "Fifty years ago this spring, Harvard students occupied the school's administration building, demanding that the university end its complicity in the Vietnam War by kicking ROTC off campus." [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.]
NBC News, May 15, 2019
Vietnamese refugees eventually relocated to areas like Orange County to be closer to each other—a process Linda Trinh Vo, professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, called a "secondary migration." When the next group of refugees came in the late 1970s and 1980s ... "They left with the idea that they had escaped and there was no way for them to go back," Vo said. "There was a sense that they would build a permanent community here."
Fast Company - May 14, 2019 (Interview)
Among the many books on the subject … there is University of California, Irvine philosophy professor Aaron James's 2012 best-selling book, Assholes: A Theory, which has just been turned into a documentary of the same name, and features a cast of anti-asshole activists, including actor John Cleese, Cornell professor Robert Hockett (who is behind Elizabeth Warren's accountable capitalism platform) and Vladimir Luxuria, the first transgender member of parliament in Europe.
NBC News, May 13, 2019
Yong Chen, professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, said that about 200 Chinatowns were burned down or otherwise destroyed by the 1880s. The Chinese Exclusion Act also had another, unexpected impact on Chinatowns, said Chen, the Irvine professor. The law helped transform the neighborhoods into tourist destinations.
Spectrum News 1, May 10, 2019 (Video)
A University of California, Irvine Chancellor's Professor of English [Jonathan Alexander] and [Antoinette LaFarge] a professor of the arts, collaborated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City. The project began with a box filled with photos given to Chancellor's Professor Jonathan Alexander at a family reunion in 2014.
The Hollywood Reporter, May 10, 2019
Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor of art history and African American studies, has curated an exhibition which is the focus of this piece written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that states, "Art has a special place among people who have historically been silenced and their culture marginalized. Such sustained suppression stifles not just the outspoken voice, but can cause the oppressed to doubt they actually have anything worthwhile to say."
