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May 2012

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		01 CWC Distinguished Writing Lecture Series: Michelle Latiolais, UCI Professor of English	02 XIII Latin American Film Festival Ninth Annual Kiang Lecture: The 'Labor Question' of Chinese Capitalism in Africa	03 Crtical Theory Emphasis Undergraduate Conference - Event 1 A China and the World Workshop: Myths, Machines, and Modernity - A Two-Part Presentation Followed by Discussion Critical Theory Emphasis Undergraduate Conference - Event 2 Emergence in Courbet’s Landscapes and in The Painter’s Studio	04 The Inaugural Southern California Rhetoric & Composition Research Symposium Latin American Studies Brown Bag Talk Friday Forugh Farrokhzad: Poet of Modern Iran Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of Persian Poetry Race & Gender, State & Capital: A Symposium on the Work of Dorothy Roberts, 5/4/12	05 TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS: RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE UNITED STATES - A Symposium Celebrating the Career of Dr. Victorina Lefebvre
06	07 J. Hillis Miller Pre-Mini-Seminar Movie Screening	08 Hillis Miller Mini-Seminar	09 Colloquium: Amie Thomasson Hillis Miller Mini-Seminar Jonathan Lethem: "Verbosity, Exile, and Punning: How to Write About Brooklyn From Afar." Sympathy: The Early Life of an Idea	10 Hillis Miller Mini-Seminar The Medes in the Ancient Near East: Old and New Perspectives A Lecture by Lauren Ravalico: "Hearts and Minds…. and Private Parts:Affecting Collective Change in the Political Imaginaryof George Sand"	11 literature { } religion First Annual Conference for the Study of Literature and Religion at UCI.	12 Lecture by Mohsen Namjoo
13	14 A Complexity Approach to Teaching Language Lecture by Wojciech Malecki, Assistant Professor of Literary Theory, Institute of Polish Philology, the University of Wroclaw.	15 Sandra Tsing Loh and Caitlin Flanagan, in Conversation with Benjamin Schwarz Racializing Assemblages: Race, Bare Life, and the Human A Lecture by Jessica DeVos "La femme et l'œuvre: Mary Queen of Scots, The Casket Sonnets, and Reception of French Renaissance Women Poets" "Dolling-up Yerevan: Avant-garde Urbanism in Post-Soviet Armenian Politics"	16 Erin Gruwell: Becoming a Catalyst for Change	17 Religious Studies Multi-campus Workshop/Conference on "Religion and Nationalism" The UC Irvine Program in Religious Studies Presents: A Multi-Campus Workshop/Conference on Religion and Nationalism Collaborative Research Workshop: Oral History of Iranian Scientists, Engineers, and Medical Professionals: Tehran Asthma Files (TFA)	18 Collaborative Research Workshop: Oral History of Iranian Scientists, Engineers, and Medical Professionals: Tehran Asthma Files (TFA) A Lecture by Robert Doran "Aesthetics as Cultural Critique: The Sublime in Kant and Stendhal" PRECARIOUS LIBERATION: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa	19 "Boundaries and Bridges: Transnationalism and Interdisciplinarity in Historical Perspective" UCI MFA Reading Series
20	21 Adam Hochschild at UCI	22 The Literary Journalism "Extras" Series Presents Adam Hochschild: "Writing To End All Wars," Co-Sponsored by the Department of History by the Department of History	23 Mexico... A Legacy of Refuge for Jewish Immigrants Women's Studies GFE Brownbag Chandiren Valayden, "Neoliberal Racisms And The Risk Of "Irresponsible Biographies"" NOTICIAS DEL DILUVIO	24 The Center in Law, Society and Culture and the Department of Women's Studies present: Sarah Haley - Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, UCLA	25 A Lecture by: Ève Morisi "Activist Poetics in Hugo's 'The Last Day of a Condemned Man'	26
27	28	29 "Life...After LitJ"	30 UCI MFA Reading Series	31 The Crumbles film screening with Akira Boch