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May 2014

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				01 Straight Talk on the Job Search Ethnography in the Humanities Kiang Lecture: The Transit of Traditions in Chinese Studies Kiang Lecture: Chin aur Hind: An Indian Subaltern's Travel Narrative of China in 1900-1901 11th Annual Kiang Lecture: "Chin aur Hind: An Indian Subaltern's Travel Narrative of China in 1900-1901"	02 Genealogies of Dissent James Simpson, Harvard and Jennifer Jahner, Cal Tech "Genealogies of Dissent" May 2 2014, 10:00-2:00 HG 1010	03 Edible Education at UCI: A Dialogue about Food Studies, Research, and Practice
04	05 "Goya and Money: an Exercise in Cultural Biography"	06 "A NEW LEAF: THE END OF CANNABIS PROHIBITION" WITH UCI ALUMNA NUSHIN RASHIDIAN (LITERARY JOURNALISM '09) & ALYSON MARTIN	07 Celebration of Rumi’s Fables Book Launch: "The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges," Prof. Lilith Mahmud Barbara Glück: THE MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP SYSTEM AND PRESENT-DAY MEMORIALIZATION OF ITS VICTIMS The Mauthausen Concentration Camp System and Present-Day Memorialization of its Victims by Barbara Glück, Director, Mauthausen Memorial (Austria)	08 Second Annual English Graduate Symposium A Tale of Two Cities: The Urban Space of Ephesos in Pagan and Christian Imagination by Christine Thomas, UC Santa Barbara and Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Remixing History and Culture: Filmmaker Valerie Soe Remixing History and Culture with Filmmaker Valerie Soe	09 Early Cultures Planning Meeting: Graduate Emphasis and ORU "Philosophia and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran" In and Out of Pollution: Emergent Forms of (In)visibility in Contemporary Iran Queer Media \| Queer Approximations	10 MFA Reading at Skylight Books
11	12	13 PARACHUTE KIDS and VULTURES OF TIBET screening at UC Irvine Partha Chatterjee Mini-Seminar, "Theorizing Democracy in the East"	14 The MFA Programs in Writing presents a reading by poet Michael Collier Partha Chatterjee Mini-Seminar, "Theorizing Democracy in the East" Alternate Reality Games: Network Aesthetics, Ludic Contingencies, and Practices of Failure	15 XX Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference Partha Chatterjee Mini-Seminar, "Theorizing Democracy in the East" Maikiko James - "Media Strategy and Web Engagement for Documentaries" Maikiko James - "Media Strategy and Web Engagement for Documentaries"	16 Gregory Downs, CUNY, Scott Romine, UNC, Greensboro, Elaine Parsons, Duquesne University, "The Literature and History of the Era of the Long Reconstruction" 16 May 2014 10-5PM Aldrich Hall 338 Southern California Ecocritical Theory Symposium: The Future of Ecocritical Theory. May 16, 2014. UC Irvine Calit2 Seminar Room 3008 The Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum - German Computer Pioneers and the First Digital Game Console Worldwide UC Irvine Script Fest The Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum - German Computer Pioneers and the First Digital Game Console Worldwide	17
18	19 Nina Spiegel (Portland State University), "The Creation of Israeli Culture: Origins and Dilemmas"	20 Visual Studies Speakers Series "Out of Sight" Presents Text in the Wake of the Technical Image: Mira Schendels's Datiloscritos Subversive Art and Activism: The Art of Kristina Wong Kristina Wong: "Subversive Art and Activism: The Art of Kristina Wong" Artist Talk with Dumbfoundead (aka Jonathan Park) Professor Timothy Morton will deliver this year’s Wellek lectures at UC Irvine in May	21 Wellek Library Lectures with Timothy Morton - May 21, 22, 23 La Herencia Cultural de España y Latinoamérica Timothy Morton - Lunch with Graduate Students MFA Reading Series Film Screening: Eden à l’ouest Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Sasha Sabherwal: "Reflections on ‘Locations of Learning:’ Articulating a Transnational Feminist Practice"	22 "How ‘Screamers’ and System of a Down Widened the Parameters of Public Debate About the Armenian Genocide" with Carla Garapedian Containing Abjection: Haiti, Gender, & the Humanitarian Gaze Festival de la Francophonie: A Celebration of World Carnivals	23 Sianne Ngai, Stanford University Humanities Core Course Event - Prof. Jon Wiener (History) will speak on "Remembering the Cold War," 11-11:50am in the Newkirk Alumni Center	24
25	26	27 "(Un)covering Corruption: Reporting from China, Haiti, and the Middle East" The New Yorker's Evan Osnos in conversation with Amy Wilentz, Koehn Lecture with Hortense Spillers - "Some Speculations on Sentiment: Women and Revolution" MAY 27: "CHINA IN THE AGE OF AMBITION" WITH EVAN OSNOS & JEFF WASSERSTROM MAY 27: "CHINESE FOOD AROUND THE WORLD: PERSPECTIVES FROM JOURNALISM & SCHOLARSHIP" Chinese Food Around the World: Perspectives from Journalism and Scholarship	28 Critical Theory Emphasis Undergraduate Conference	29	30 Christopher Nealon, Johns Hopkins	31 ZOTfest: Student film festival