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Critical thinking, storytelling, ethics and human understanding: these are the enduring foundations of a humanities education, and are essential in addressing today’s grand challenges.

We invite you to learn more about the School of Humanities.  

Humanities in the 21st Century

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Stories

Explore how scholars in the humanities enrich the human story.

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Diversity

Learn about the global reach of the humanities, and how they shape our collective future.

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Values

Discover how humanities scholars center values in a world of bytes.

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Literacies

Delve into the literacies that students develop while studying the humanities.

Stories

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Kent Baldner
February 20, 2026
Alumni Through the Decades: 1980s
Kent Baldner ‘85 (Ph.D. philosophy) joined UCI’s graduate program in 1979
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Petna Ndaliko Katondolo and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
February 20, 2026
Congo, cobalt and the cost of connection
Congolese filmmaker Petna Ndaliko Katondolo brings his award-winning documentary to UC Irvine
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Lunar New Year 2026 year of the horse.
February 17, 2026
Lunar New Year 2026: A year of reckoning
UCI East Asian studies professor shares the history and symbolism of the Fire Horse
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February 19, 2026
Q&A with film scholar Lucas Hilderbrand
Film and media studies professor’s book explores romance trilogy’s lasting appeal
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English | 1994
Pedram Navab
Tatum Larsen
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Literary Journalism | 2021
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Professor
Ph.D. Spanish | 1994
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Mazdak and the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Iranian World
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Mazdak and the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Iranian World
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“A tutte le nazioni comune” Crete, Boccaccio, Dante, and the Future(s) of Migrant Europa
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