FAQs - CTI Events & Related Information

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What CTI events are open to the public?
All CTI events advertised on our flyers or on our web site Calendar are open to the public. These include our annual Wellek Library Lectures, our Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory, and a variety of other lectures, workshops and conferences, including activities co-sponsored with other UCI departments and programs.

Where are CTI events held?
Most of our events are held in the Humanities or Social Sciences buildings, particularly in the Humanities Instructional Building, and periodically in the UCI Student Center. Locations of specific events are listed on our calendar. Directions are available at UCI's campusmap.

Where do I park for CTI events?
Please contact the UCI Parking and Transportation office for information regarding permit costs and locations of parking lots. Generally, the most convenient parking for CTI events will be found in the main UCI parking structure (near the student center, and central to both Humanities and Social Sciences buildings) or the Mesa parking structure (located near the Humanities buildings). Directions are available at UCI's campusmap.
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What accommodations for disabilities are available for CTI events?
Information concerning accommodations for disabilities is available from UCI's Disability Services office, or ods@uci.edu. Special accommodations may be requested through Diane Kim at 824-7494.

What are ILCT?
The Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory, offically named in 1993-1994, are presentations and discussions of work by both CTI members and invited guests in relation to the CTI’s current research project. These lectures are held throughout the academic year, and many are published in the book resulting from each research project in CTI’s Project Series. For information on individual lectures, please see our Projects pages. The most current information regarding upcoming ILCT is available on our Calendar.

Who are the speakers in the Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory series?
ILCT are given by both CTI members and invited speakers whose work is particularly pertinent to the CTI's current research project. See our Projects pages and CTI Project Series for more information.

Are Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory available in published form?
Many of the lectures are published in the book resulting from each research project in CTI’s Project Series.

What are the Wellek Library Lectures?
The Wellek Library Lecture series was inaugurated in 1981 as a tribute to Professor René Wellek. Traditionally held in the Spring each year (2001 excepted), the CTI hosts distinguished lecturers in critical theory who present a series of lectures over three days. Most of these Lectures are then published in the CTI's Wellek Library Lecture Series, and comprehensive bibliographies of lecturers prepared by UCI's Dr. Eddie Yeghiayan, available on his Wellek Library Lectures page. Please see our Wellek page for information regarding previous and planned WLL, or our Calendar for the most recent information on upcoming WLL.

Who are Wellek Library Lecturers?
The CTI invites prominent speakers who are shaping contemporary critical theory. Among those distinguished critical theorist the has hosted recently are Gaytri Spivak, Judith Butler, and Jean Baudrillard. A comprehensive llist of previous and planned Wellek Library lecturers is available at Wellek.

Where do I get Wellek Library Lecturers’ Bibliographies?
Comprehensive bibliographies of Wellek Library Lecturers prepared by UCI's Dr. Eddie Yeghiayan are available on his Wellek Library Lectures page.

Are Wellek Library Lectures available in published form?
Most WLL are published in the CTI's Wellek Library Lecture Series.

What other activities open to te public does the CTI engage in?
The CTI hosts, or co-sponsors a variety of lectures each academic years, many by international speakers including our Research Fellows, in addition to various conferences and special activities likeour upcoming Derrida Deleuze conference (Spring 2002), our “Bridging the Gaps” Program (1995-1997) [future link] and our participation in a German-American Collaborative Research Project [future link]. More information is available on our Other CTI Activities pages.

What is “Bridging the Gaps?”
“Bridging the Gaps” is CTI's intersegmental summer program that ran from 1995 through 1997, gratefully funded by the NEH. More information will be available on our Bridging the Gaps page [future link].

What is Multiculturalism, Transciplinarity, and Teaching in an Intercultural Perspective?
This is the title of a German-American Collaborative Research Project [1994-1997] involving scholars from the Humboldt U in Berlin, UC Irvine, UC, Santa Barbara, and Georgetown U for which CTI's John Carlos Rowe was principal U.S. investigator [and in which many CTI members participated]. Further information will be available German-American Collaboration page [future link]