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May 2017

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	01 Screening and Q&A with Director: FINDING KUKAN Critical Game Studies Symposium: "Body Games" Talk: "Ethics & Activism in the Archives" with Ashley Glassburn Falzetti Workshop: "Responding to Absence in the Archives" with Ashley Glassburn Falzetti Journee de la Francophonie Confronting Anger and Hate: A Community/University Dialogue	02	03 English and Comparative Literature Dissertation Colloquium: Jasmine Lee	04 Colleen Lye on "Asian Socialism, Magical Realism" Shakespeare Shorts "Asian Socialism, Magical Realism"	05 World \| Cinema \| Text Academic Career Paths at a Liberal Arts College UCI Anime Night- "When Marnie Was There" Trust and Risk in Literature "World \| Cinema \| Text" with Nitin Govil + JD Connor	06 Aesthetics & Violence: Cultural Continuities in the German Tradition? Thriving in Difference: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on "Strange" Body, Ethnicity, and Language
07	08 Refugee Awareness Week: Scholars at Risk Film Screening: Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings	09 "First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles": Colloquium with Connie Wun, Yusef Omowale, and Damien Sojoyner Graduate Cinema Series - "I Was Born But...."	10 Critical Cartography and Urban Spatial Ethnography: re-narrating and visualizing Im(migrants) and the 21st Century City English and Comparative Literature Dissertation Colloquium: Alexander Jabbari From Passion to Action: Young Leaders in Refugee Relief Showcasing Student Work and Student Growth: A Panel on Portfolio Pedagogies French Film Series	11 Grant-Writing Workshop Series \| Session 3 Screening and Q&A with director Alex Rivera: SLEEP DEALER MAY 11: "Storytelling Through Virtual Reality and 360 Video" with Michaela Holland '16 Open Mic Night at the CEWC	12 Cristophe Litwin, Lunchtime Talk Eric Santner, Koehn Lecture: Rebranding Sovereignty in the Age of Trump Histories of Genre \| Day 1 Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Creating New Paradigms and Mentoring in the Academy Naming What We Know: A Report from the Field, Dr. Linda Adler-Kassner, UC Santa Barbara	13 Ends of Adoption Symposium Histories of Genre \| Day 2
14 Latin American Studies in Motion: "Sleep Dealer" (2008)	15 Inside the Tenure Track: First Generation Perspectives "The Artful Face, Voice, Gaze, and Ear in Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema" by Prof. Hamid Naficy from Northwestern University	16 After-Lives of War \| Opening Event "After Lives of War The Southeast Asian Archive Over 30 Years" Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health The Stories We Tell (And Those We Don't): the Making of Free Chol Soo Lee The After-Lives of War: Refugee Art Exhibit until June 16	17 Empowerment of Armenian Women and Girls through Photography Screening of Prison in Twelve Landscapes & Discussion with Director, Brett Story English and Comparative Literature Dissertation Colloquium: Sharon Kunde Memory and Medicine in Early Modern England [What is to be done?] Special Dean's Forum: Should the government support the arts and humanities? "Asian American Silicon Valley Narratives"Â Dr. Christopher Fan Commentary by Prof. Jim Lee (Asian American Studies) and Prof. Ted Martin (English)	18 Financialization, Neo-Liberalism, and Latin America Assessing Scholarship in the Digital Age Undergraduate History Conference "Financialization, Neoliberalism, and Latin America" - Patricia Stuelke & Patricia Stuelke	19 Sawyer Seminar's Militarized Ecologies Workshop UCI eSports Symposium	20 "The Lure of Italy" at the Getty Center Crossing the Pacific: Chinese Scholars on Studying China Hossein Omoumi & Friends Live in Concert
21 Celebrating the Sephardic legacy in Mexico: Concert and Film Screening Conference on "The Jewish Experience in Mexico" The Jewish Experience in Mexico	22 Montaigne's Gaiety - Speaker: Timothy Hampton (UC Berkeley)	23	24 English and Comparative Literature Dissertation Colloquium: Jens Lloyd Farhang Foundation Lecture in Iranian Studies by Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh Potholes of the Past: Incorporable Neoliberal Identities, & Trans-Temporality's Affects in R. Zamora Linmark's Leche Dr. Jacob Lau Commentary by Prof. Christine Balance (Asian American Studies/Gender & Sexuality Studies) La France en Etat de Marche? Perpectives on the French Elections and their Aftermath A poetry reading and book signing with Mai Der Vang A poetry reading and book signing with Mai Der Vang	25	26 Humanities Research Up Front "Recent Books in Korean Studies" Colloquium "Recent Books in Korean Studies" Colloquium	27
28	29	30	31 2017 Wellek Lectures (May 31, June 1, and June 2) English and Comparative Literature Dissertation Colloquium: James Goebel Writing the Future "Portraying Persians in Achaemenid Egypt" by Dr. Henry Colburn