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May 2016

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01	02 Critical Game Studies Symposium L'Actualité Française Et Francophone - Screening of: Yves Saint Laurent Transcending Limits: AHUA's Fourth Annual Art Show Speaking Up: Fifty Years of Student Publications at UCI	03 Alan Thomas, University of Chicago Press, "How To Think Like an Editor"	04 Persuasion: A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium	05 Second Annual Keith Nelson Lecture featuring Odd Arne Westad, Harvard University "Worlds Apart: The Cold War in the Twentieth Century" "Alexander the Great at Pasargadae and the Achaemenid traditions" a talk by Dr. Pierre Briant Visual Studies Colloquium XXII Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference UCI Global Food Summit	06 "The Achemenet Program in the framework of the ArScAn Research team" a talk by Dr. Damien Agut UCI Data Science Initiative Symposium - Fostering Literacy and Learning with Text and Data Mining Crisis of Values - a symposium presented by Culture \| Law \| Capital Center THE WORKSHOP IN BLACKNESS AND THE ASIAN CENTURY - "Back to Basics: A Discussion of the Past, Present, and Future of Blackness and the Asian Century (BASIC) and UCI" "Crisis of Values"	07
08	09 "Inversion: On Some Poetics and Politics in the Discourse of the Sublime," Ian Balfour, York University "Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity" a talk and book signing by Dr. Nasrin Rahimieh L'Actualité Française Et Francophone - screening of "The Fairy" Eta Sigma Phi undergraduate colloquium A talk and book signing by Nasrin Rahimieh Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity Visit- Sociologist from Cuba May 9-13: Ana Niria Albo	10 Symposium on Contemporary Europe: "The Confrontation with Islamic State and the Far Right" Theater of War	11 "Tupac Amaru Rebellion: An Atlantic Revolution?" with Charles "Chuck" Walker Join us to celebrate the gift of Dali lithographs to UCI Art History "The Hunting Ground" - free film screening "Max Aub Y Mexico: distancias y silencios" by Cesar Nunez SCANDAL in Real Time, A National Conference on Black Women, Politics, Oral History. May 11 - 13th, 2016. "Scandal in Real Time" - a national conference on Black women, politics, oral history	12 The MFA Programs In Writing presents a reading by Michelle Latiolais "How the Sony Walkman changed the world: A conversation about music, technology, and public space" "The Armenian Neighborhood of Jolfa: Public Space and Old Centers in Isfahan" with Dr. Narciss Sohrabi "Visual Language: The Key to Writing for the Screen" with Andrew Ahn DH Live! Martin Schwab (UCI) on Kant and Jurisprudence	13 Poetics\|history\|Theory event: Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley UC Irvine Annual China Conference "Unruly Rhetorics" - conversations about activism and pedagogy UCI Irvine Annual China Conference Aljamiado - Spanish in Arabic	14
15	16 Ethnography Workshop with Georgina Born L'Actualité Française Et Francophone - screening of "Indochine" Diversity Alumni Lecture Series with Yvette Aparicio Diversity Alumni Lecture Series with Conversatorio Yvette Aparicio	17 Regina Kunzel, lecture: "In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality" Police "Pacification" and Culture of Survival: The Pragmatics of Violence and Hope in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro "An Introductory Conversation on the Workshop in Science, Technology, and Race at UC Irvine"	18 MFA Poetry Series: visiting poet Carol Muske-Duke Regina Kunzel, seminar: "Researching Queer History" "Talking with our Past in the Future: From the Holocaust to Digital Interactive Holography" "Toxic Metropolis: Cities, Suburbs, and the Battle over Public Health in Modern America" 2016 Wellek Lectures with Katherine Hayles	19 'The New Intolerance: At Home and Around the World' a public round table discussion sponsored by The Forum for the Academy and the Public Anual Undergraduate History Conference Bradford Young, Cinematographer of Selma & A Most Violent Year Discusses His Art, Storytelling & Career 2016 Wellek Lectures with Katherine Hayles "Georgina Born on Making Time: Music, Temporality, and History" Listening in a Second Language" by Olaf Bärenfänger The New Intolerance: At Home and Around the World Talk with Leopoldo Peña, photographer and Spanish Ph.D. Candidate	20 50th Anniversary Arts and Humanities Conference: "Creativity, Cognition, Critique" 50th Anniversary Arts and Humanities performance: "Random Access Music Universe" 2016 Wellek Lectures with Katherine Hayles Film Screening of Spirits' Homecoming Screening of "Guardian" student film	21 African American Film Festival: "Killer of Sheep" 50th Anniversary Conference: Creativity, Cognition, Critique MFA Reading Series: Skylight Books ZOTFEST 2016
22 Classical Persian Music: Hossein Omoumi, From Isfahan to Irvine	23 "Phoenician Kings and Greek City-States: International Diplomacy in the 4th Century BCE"	24 "African-American Art and the Biographical Imperative: The Case of William Edmondson, Stone Carver" with Professor Jennifer Marshall, University of Minnesota's Art History Department "The Man Who Knew Infinity" Filmmaker Q&A	25 Data Mining with Robots: Tools for the History of Brazil and Slavery Digital Humanities Reading Group: Spring Quarter Meeting	26 Koehn Undergraduate Conference Kiang Lecture: How Did China Get So Big? Redefining the Realm and its Subjects, ca 1680-1850 with Dr. Kenneth Pomeranz Kiang Lecture: How Did China Get So Big? Redefining the Realm and its Subjects, ca 1680-1850	27 Research Slam: Celebrating Graduate Education in the Humanities Philosophy and the Trial of Terror: September 11, January 7 and 9, November 13 Julie Park, "Follies and Fictions" 'Follies and Fictions: Spatial Realism and Affordances of the Psyche in the Eighteenth Century Gothic' by Julie Park	28
29	30	31 Chairman William D. Adams, National Endowment for the Humanities