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May 2018

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		01 Wellek Lectures 2018: Wendy Brown, "Authoritarian Liberalism and Moral Nihilism" "Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran" a talk and book-signing by Nahid Siamdoust (Yale University)	02 Wellek Lectures 2018: Wendy Brown,"Authoritarian Liberalism and Moral Nihilism" MFA Programs in Writing presents a reading by poet F. Douglas Brown 15th Annual UCI Wan-Lin Kiang Lecture: The High Income Trap in East Asia	03 Joint Legal Philosophy Colloquium: Christopher Kutz (Berkeley) Wellek Lectures 2018: Wendy Brown, "Authoritarian Liberalism and Moral Nihilism" Gender, Race, Sovereignty, and Self-Defense: The Yvonne Wanrow Case and its Legacy Redes (Fishermen's Nets/ The Wave) "Digital Learning in the Humanities and Beyond" Symposium	04 "The Absurd" Elemental Media and Extractive Politics Colloquium: Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)	05 Santa Ana Art Walk with UCI Alums and Friends AHUA 10 Year Anniversary "The History of Persian Poetry from the Beginnings to Today" by Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of Maryland) Living in the Tempest AFTERLIVES OF MARTIAL LAW-pop-up photo exhibit, talk, and book launch
06	07 AHUA Art Exhibit: Opening Reception Monday, May 7th at 5 pm Candle in the Wave (광장) Screening	08 UCI Conference: From Memoir to Autobiography: Early Modern British Self-Representation Lecture by Deanna Shemek Film and Presentation: Feminist Labor Activism in Blue Collar Trades	09 A Jew, A Newborn and a Scab: On Converts and Conversion in Late Antiquity Richard Barbrook: "Games for the Many and Class Wargames" Modeling Afro-Asian Collaboration: Jazz, Spoken-Word and Political Aesthetics "A Long Dirty War: State Terror and the Counterinsurgent Origins of Mexico's Contemporary Drug Violence" Lecture by Alex Avina	10 Working with Human Subjects in Your Research: A Special Presentation by the IRB (Institutional Review Board) The Wellness Myth 2017-2018 Writing Awards Philosophy Club Presents Professor Gilbert	11 Joint Talk Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy (Humanities) and Logic and Philosophy of Science (Social Sciences): Sharon Street (NYU) Recent Books in Korean Studies, Colloquium Latin American Dissertations in Completion Olivia Humphrey, "Anxiety and the Unnamed: Problems of Documenting in the Far East after the Russo-Japanese War" Futures of Queer Theory	12
13	14 MFA Programs in Writing presents a reading with poet Victoria Chang Music and Sound Design in Games Fanoos Lantern Workshop	15 The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Symposium on Ancient Iranian History and Civilization: Food and Drink in Ancient Iran - An All Day Conference Shakespeare and Star Trek: With Nicholas Meyer "Community Leadership & Social Change" speaker series with Ed Curammeng, Assistant Professor at CSU - Dominguez Hills	16 Excel Spreadsheets for Humanists MFA Programs in Writing presents a reading by poet Mary Szybist But Who is a Kosher Candidate? The Merging of Jewish Identity Politics and Electoral Politics in Los Angeles, 1969-1973 Medical Humanities Initiative Work in Progress featuring Profs. Miriam Bender & Joel Veenstra "Matters of the Flesh"	17 Aisha Finch: Black Magic: Sacred Worlds, Embodied Pleasures, and the Practice of Freedom on the Cuban Plantation Undergraduate History Conference English alumni career panel Philosophy Club Presents: Professor David W. Smith	18 Rebecca Sacks, "Every Second Is the Second Before It Happens: The West Bank" "Similarity and Alterity in the Early Modern Persianate Imaginary" by Mana Kia (Columbia University) Preparing for Success on the Academic Job Market Eta Sigma Phi Undergraduate Colloquium: "Untold Stories: Rewriting the Women of Greek Myth" Friday, March 18th \| 3pm \| HG 1030 "Taxi Driver" and Representation of Victims in Popular Culture Rebecca Sacks, "Every Second Is the Second Before It Happens"	19
20	21 Women in Philosophy: Women's Mentoring Program	22 MFA Programs in Writing presents The Victory Lap Reading "The Hospitable Globe: Persia and Early Modern English Drama" by Sheiba Kaufman (UC Irvine) "What is Asian American Feminisms?"	23 AMERICAN ANIMALS: Advance Film Screening	24	25 Jaime Lalinde, "Violence and Diaspora: Bogotá in the 90s" Colloquium: Howard Wettstein (UCR) Marxism and Deconstruction Revisited: After 1968, Bruno Bosteels	26
27	28	29 "Shakespeare's Persian Tom" by Sheiba Kaufman (UC Irvine) UCI Medical Humanities, Art History and African American Studies Present: Body n Soul: Race, Identity and Healing in the work of Alison Saar	30	31 Protest Cities of 1968 Understanding the U.S./North Korea Crisis: A Pop Up Panel featuring Barbara Demick of the LA Times Philosophy Club Movie Night