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A Conversation with Yang Shuang-Zi, Author of Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel, and Translator Lin King

A Conversation with Yang Shuang-Zi, Author of Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel, and Translator Lin King

Author, Workshop, Talk, Culture

And with Translator Lin King! WINNER of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experienc...

2/18/2025

4:30pm

Humanities Gatewa...


Comunidad y Música

Comunidad y Música

Music, Dance, Culture, Latinx

Come learn about salsa, practice your (newly acquired) dance skills, or just enjoy live music at “Comunidad y música”! This event showcases the ways in which music is a powerful tool to build community that has also historically functioned as a method of resistance for marginalized communities in the Americas. It offers a short lecture on the genre’s historical significance by Génesis Lara...

2/20/2025

4:00pm

Social and Behavi...


Lost Voices of Revolution: Growing Up in the Black Panther Party

Lost Voices of Revolution: Growing Up in the Black Panther Party

Activism, Awareness, Conversation, Lecture

Join us in conversation with Meres-Sia Gabriel; writer, performance artist, and daughter of Black Panther Party members Emory Douglas, artist and the “Minister of Culture," and Gayle “Asali” Dickson, artist and educator. Co-sponsored by : Humanities Center, the Black Panther Oakland Community School Research Cluster, Humanities Core, and UCI Illuminations.

2/21/2025

11:00am

Humanities Instru...


Langson IMCA: Adult Workshop | Exploring the Landscape through Collage and Drawing

Langson IMCA: Adult Workshop | Exploring the Landscape through Collage and Drawing

Art, Art exhibition, Museum, Workshop

Image caption: Benjamin Brown, Autumn Glory, circa 1920, Oil on canvas, 28 × 36 ⅛ in. UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art. Gift of The Irvine Museum Join artist Fran Siegel for a hands-on exploration of color and light inspired by Common Ground: Early 20th-Century Artist Communities in Southern California. Focusing on some of the landscape paintings in ...

2/22/2025

10:00am

Jack & Shanaz Lan...


Sugar: an Aesthetic, Cognitive, and Sensorial Learning Experience

Sugar: an Aesthetic, Cognitive, and Sensorial Learning Experience

Cooking, Conversation, Music, Theatre, Free Food

Sugar has played a pivotal role in human history, both in biology and civilization. Sugar provides the essential energy and pleasure but it also played a crucial role in the history of colonialism and slavery. Have you ever thought about these questions while you enjoy some tasty sweets? Does a spoonful of sugar help the medicine go down or increase the chance of needing more medicine? How ...

2/24/2025

6:00pm

Demonstration Kit...


"Raíces y Ritmos: A Celebration of Latin American Poetry, Mariachi, and Cuisine"

Latin American, Culture

UC Irvine’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to experience the vibrant culture of Latin America through a night of powerful poetry, traditional mariachi music, and authentic cuisine. The event will feature an induction ceremony of new members of the Phi Beta Delta Honors Society. Join us for a celebration of culture that brings together sounds, stories, flavors and peo...

2/26/2025

5:00pm

Humanities Gatewa...


UCI International Film Club: Jaws (1975)

UCI International Film Club: Jaws (1975)

Film, Film Screening, Movie

Join us for a screening on 2/26/25 at 7:00pm! A classic thriller from the 1970s, Jaws was shot on location in Martha's Vineyard. As much as it is about the hunt for a great white shark attacking beachgoers, this film is also about the shifting nature of American class society. Its record setting box office returns, along with those of Stars Wars released a year later launched Hollywood's pe...

2/26/2025

7:00pm

McCormick Screeni...


Queering Asian Americans on Stage and Screen

Queering Asian Americans on Stage and Screen

Asian American, Film

Racial, cultural, and gender tropes are closely connected with Asian American theatricalization. These tropes could be subtle or explicit, comical or outrageous, condemning or empowering. Dr. Sean Metzger will address the topic of queering Asian American on stage and screen, using the popular film Everything Everywhere All at Once as an example. Everything Everywhere All at Once features a ...

3/3/2025

5:00pm

Colloquium Room, ...


Translating Taboos - From Text to Film

Translating Taboos - From Text to Film

Writing, Filmmaking

Stanley Kubrick (film director) and Vladimir Nabokov (author) agreed to make the 1955 novel LOLITA into a farcical film in 1962, leaning towards humor and playfulness rather than eroticism. They believed this was the best way to get around censorship. Director Tatiana Huezo and writer Jennifer Clement, in contrast, did not collaborate on the film adaptation, and their visions on mixing tragedy ...

3/5/2025

2:00pm

Doheny Beach Meet...


Migration, Race, and Jewish Visual Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

Migration, Race, and Jewish Visual Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

Art, Workshop, Jewish Studies

**This is a two day event, you can choose your ticket when you register for tracking attendance purposes! On March 6, we will convene at UC Irvine for our workshop, which will be open to the public. The schedule is as follows: March 6: 10:00am - 12:00pm & 2:00pm - 4:00pm March 7: 10:00am - 12:30pm.  Keynote by Olivia Guterson: 10:00am - 11:00am Keynote by Sarah Phillips Casteel: 1:15...

3/6/2025

10:00am

Humanities Gatewa...