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Call For Submissions: Food Stories
Contest
In this series, we choose one ingredient that is common in many cultures and invite students to share their recipes which use the key ingredient. Selected students will speak about their recipes and the Demonstration Kitchen chef will create a multicultural meal of dishes with the same key ingredients but different culinary traditions. Selected students will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. Se...
12/1/2025
9:00am
Online Event
Call for Submissions: Family Recipes Show & Tell (& Eat)!
Food, Contest
. Family Recipes Show & Tell (& Eat)! Do you have a favorite family recipe? What’s the signature dish of your parents, (great) grandparents, or other family members? What is the food you miss most when you are away from home? We invite you to submit your favorite recipe. The chosen students will tell us their food stories and cook the dish at the Demonstration Kitchen at the Anteater Recre...
12/1/2025
9:00am
Online Event
Speculative Work in Refugee Writing and Politics
Asian American, Author
This talk explores the use of speculation in refugee writing and politics, particularly within the context of Southeast Asian diasporas. I’m interested in how refugee narratives engage with unknowns and absences, impossible realities or unverifiable truths, how they deal with loss without reverting to more conventional frameworks such as trauma, mourning, or memory. I discuss how speculation br...
12/2/2025
5:00pm
Private Location ...
Food & Thought: Family Recipes Show & Tell (& Eat)! Chai & Company
Cooking, Conversation, Food
**UCI students only! Reminder to bring your own utensils, water bottle, and to-go containers! How far have you traveled from your hometown to study at UCI? What is the food you miss most when you live on campus? Have you ever tried to recreate the taste of home when you are far away from home? Illuminations launches a new series: Family Recipes Show & Tell (& Eat)! We invite students t...
12/3/2025
5:30pm
Private Location ...
The Green Knight: Post Performance Panel
Panel, Theatre
Post-performance panel: It's Christmas at Camelot and a mysterious Green Knight appears, offering a lethal challenge . . . The panel will be a lively discussion between two medieval scholars and a theater practitioner about the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the joys and challenges of faithfully adapting it for the stage. Medievalists Laura Hatch (Assistant Professor, Brig...
12/12/2025
9:30pm
xMPL (Experimenta...