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February 2019

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
					01 Global Shakespeare Symposium: Shakespeare Our Contemporary, featuring Bi-qi Lei and Mihai Măniuţiu Department Talk: Aleksandra Restifo (Balliol College, University of Oxford) David Kurnick (Rutgers) and Heather Love (Penn), "Genealogies of Queer Studies: A Symposium" Poetics\|history\|Theory: David Kurnick (Rutgers) and Heather Love (Penn), "Genealogies of Queer Studies: A Symposium" Digital Humanities (DH) Social Hour	02 Saturday at the Gateway: "The Black Index"
03	04 From Hope to Hate: The Rise of Conservative Subjectivity in Brazil, by Dr. Rosana Pinheiro-Machado Lunar New Year Festival 2019	05 The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities Lecture Series by Professor Scott McDonough Assisting Students with Mental Distress JSTOR Data for Research Interactive Webinar Comics in Academia?!	06 Liron Mor, "Resistance into Incitement: Translation, Legislation, ‘Early Detection' and the Palestinian Poet's Intention" Brown Bag	07 Sympathy and Hospitality toward Overcoming Modernity with Ch'oe Yun LARB Publishing Workshop: Information Session	08 Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narrative of Climate Change Martin Jay, guest speaker, "Reading Vico," Feb. 8, 2019 Docunight #53 - Screening of "MAHAK - A World She Founded" A Symposium on Vico - The Past of the Future Conference: Margaret Gilbert's "Rights and Demands"	09 Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narrative of Climate Change Asian American Studies 2019 Homecoming
10	11 Learn to Code with Me Asian Food Week-How Tea Travels with Historians Alexander Day and Kelly Hammond	12 Asian Food Week-Foods of Japan with Professor Sei Young Lee	13 MFA Programs in Writing presents a reading by Percival Everett Asian Food Week-Conversation Kitchen "Korean Noodles in the Age of K-Pop" Asian Food Week-Persian Tea Time Asian Food Week - Persian Tea Time	14 "Afghanistan Rising" A book talk by Professor Faiz Ahmed (Brown University) Valentine's Day Event ELS Asian Food Week-Korean Street Food ACLS, 100 Years and Beyond: A Conversation and Funding Information Session with James Shulman, Vice President and CEO of the ACLS	15 Dissertation to Book Workshop with Kate Marshall, UC Press Scientia Workshop: Dana Villa (University of Notre Dame) Legislation, criminalization, capitalism and anti-capitalism in Mapuche country, 1993-2018, by Dr. Cristián Perucci (Chile) Critical Voices Workshop: "Modeling Disavowal: Affect, Theology, and Thresholds of Asian American Solidarity" Asian Food Week-Chinese Tea Time Medical Humanities Talk: Ashley Kennedy (Florida Atlantic University)	16
17	18	19 Grant Writing Basics and Budgets with Amanda Swain The Second Annual UC Irvine Film and Media Studies Spotlight Showcase Event of student films. Book Club: Amy Gerstler and F. Douglas Brown on the Poetry of Kevin Young "Countering Fears of Corruption: 'Leprosy' and Healing in the Early Caribbean." w/ Dr. Kristen Block Love's Labour's Lost	20 Brown Bag Liron Mor, "Resistance into Incitement: Translation, Legislation, ‘Early Detection' and the Palestinian Poet's Intention"	21 Sovereignty, Blackness, and the Archive Monuments, Memories and the Martyrs of 1900: China's Boxer Crisis Revisited with Jeff Wasserstrom João Luiz Teixeira, "The Body of Kurt Cobain: suicidal traces" with Response by Eyal Amiran	22 Brianne Donaldson (Rice University) Lynching, Violence, and Representation: Colloquium and Film Screening Medical Humanities Talk: Atocha Aliseda (National Autonomous University of Mexico) Atocha Aliseda (National Autonomous University of Mexico)	23
24 2nd Annual Children's Persian Book Festival	25	26 Poet and essayist Kevin Young WORKSHOP ON MOVEMENT/FICTION/FILM by Alejo Moguillansky and Luciana Acuña AsAm 52 Guest Lecture with Q&A: Ellen Ahn and Shikha Bhatnagar	27 Journal Publishing Workshop with the Pacific Historical Review Politics of the Obscene Screening of "The Little Match Girl" (2017) and Q&A with Director Alejo Moguillansky and actress Luciana Acuña Politics of the Obscene: Obscenity and its Mediations in Early Modern Europe Politics of the Obscene: Obscenity and its Mediations	28 Natasha Trethewey, former U.S. Poet Laureate Antony and Cleopatra: HD Screening and Pre-Performance Discussion Natasha Trethewey: Master Class A staged reading followed by Q&A of POOR YELLA REDNECKS Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh