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February 2020

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02	03 Symposium on Sinophone Theater Politics in Contemporary Brazil Asian Tea Week - Japanese & Indian	04 Tang Shu-Wing Theatre Studio presents Scenes from "Macbeth" Necessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance Film Screening & Discussion Asian Tea Week: Persian Tea Asian Tea Week - Persian	05 Music, Letters, Home: An Exhibit Celebrating the Journey of Composer Chinary Ung and Actor Kalean Ung Asian Tea Week - Chinese	06 Philosophy Club Meeting Suffering "Well" Across Communities of Color: A Comparative Conversation on Race, Ableism, and Disability Studies with Mimi Khúc and Sami Schalk Meet Robert Newman, President and Director of the National Humanities Center "The Humanities in a Time of Ecological and Constitutional Crises" Learn to Code with Me - with DH Librarian Madelynn Dickerson Border-based Writing & Photographic Narratives from Ciudad Juárez Speaker Series Taking Space/Making Space Sistan: The Medieval Indo-Iranian Borderland Docunight: Iranian Documentary Series - Screenings of "Fight Feast" Hye-Kyoung Kwon - Mapping out "K-Beauty" under the Military Regime of South Korea: Door-to-door Cosmetic Saleswomen and Beauty Consultants of Amorepacific Co. (1945-) Asian Tea Week - Boba Tea (Cha for Tea)	07 "Anti-Semitism: Then and Now," Lisa Lampert-Weissig, UC San Diego Unpacking Ableism in Our Lives: A Workshop on Developing a Disability Studies Lens Making Sense of a Shattering World: Indian Slavery as Seen from San Agustin, by Alejandra Dubcovsky (History, UC Riverside) Race to the Future? by Ruha Benjamin, Princeton Scholar & Author; Kick-off for The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI Ethics Bowl Meeting Asian Tea Week - Vietnamese (7 Leaves Cafe)	08 International Film Club Screenings-Mini Chinese Film Festival Opening Night: Last Train Home (Fan Lixin, 2009) Archaeology in a Post-Truth World: An Interdisciplinary Philosophical Conference "Archaeology in a Post-Truth World Interdisciplinary Conference"
09 Archaeology in a Post-Truth World: An Interdisciplinary Philosophical Conference International Film Club Screenings-Mini Chinese Film Festival; Long Day's Journey into Night, (Bi Gan, 2018)	10 "Genetics and the Search for the Lost Ancestors of the Jews" with Prof. Steven Weitzman (Penn) International Film Club Screenings:Mini Chinese Film Festival: The Great Buddha (Huang Hsin-Yao 2017)	11 Borders & Belonging: Can a Woman be Elected President? Film Screening of Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority Presentación del libro Por Tierras extrañas	12 Screening & Reception DOI TOSHIKUNI: FUKUSHIMA SPEAKS (2018) Untranslating Theory: Pop-up Seminar on Jacques Derrida by Professor Ellen Burt CAS Faculty Series: Long T. Bui - Vietnamese Refugee Memory in the Age of Global Asias	13 Letters from Home Performance - Kalean Ung Saved: Objects of the Dead - reception, artist talk and reading Philosophy Club La tía Tula David Roh - Los Angeles and Osaka are Burning: Articulating the Zainichi Korean and Korean American Literary Conversation Is it Jjapaguri or Ramdon? Sharing the Oscars with Korean Film Experts	14 "Pushing the Limits of the Law: Rights, Whiteness, and Meanings of Equality," by Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (UC Santa Barbara) Department of Philosophy Talk: Katherine Ritchie (City College of New York) "The Dying of Democracy Everywhere: The U.S., Iran, and the Middle East" A Talk by Dr. Cornel West "Translingual, Transgender: Undoing Prefixial Ontologies" - Talk by Dr. David Gramling Ethics Bowl	15
16	17	18 Stable but Unresponsive: The Rise and Demise of Pinochet's Constitution, by Dr. Rodrigo Espinoza Borders & Belonging: Can a Woman be Elected President? A Conversation that Matters Summer Diversity Philosophy Programs	19 Helen Zia, author of "Last Boat Out of Shanghai" The Third Annual UCI Film and Media Studies Spotlight Showcase Event Armenian Studies Minor Luncheon	20 [CANCELLED] Black Natural Law: Vincent Lloyd in Conversation with Julia Lupton Honoring the Legacy of Filipino-American Writer and Poet Carlos Bulosan Learn to Code with Me - with DH Librarian Madelyn Dickerson Qiu Ying and the Playfulness of Painting with Professor Yeewan Koon, University of Hong Kong "Layered Traditions: South Asia and the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World" with Ladan Akbarnia, Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, The San Diego Museum of Art Philosophy Club Meeting Comparative Literature Graduate Conference "Moment of Danger"	21 Imagining Archives: A Symposium Ethics Bowl Meeting The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI Pop-Up Event: Ethnic Divides, Authoritarianism, and Violence around the World since 1989	22 The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI
23 Ask A Philosopher Booth	24 Payravi Conference on Ancient Iranian History III "Iran and The Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History: The Seleucids" Payravi Conference on Ancient Iranian History III "Iran and The Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History: The Seleucids"	25 Graduate Student Colloquium Series: Ana Baginski	26 "Ordinary Gods" by Pascui Rivas Pablo Oyarzun, University of Chile Poet: Javier Zamora Reading and Book Signing Ordinary Gods	27 SOH Graduate Student Learning Community on Teaching Rhythms of the Brazilian Northeast, a performance by Joao Martins and JoVia Armstrong. Philosophy Club Meeting	28 LARB Publishing Workshop Info Session [sold out] Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate Department Talk: Allison (Ari) Koslow, MIT Publishing As Possibility and Engagement Ethics Bowl Meeting	29