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April 2019

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	01	02 Norooz Celebration Event at UC Irvine	03 Workshop with Eric Zack, The Conversation (open to professors, lecturers & graduate students) Confronting Extremism Talks - RSVP by April 3	04 "Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?" A talk by Dr. Arya Moknat (UC Irvine) Science vs. the Chinese State: The Present Is History	05 Digital Humanities (DH) Social Hour Dr. Andrea Aebersold, DTEI, "Evidence-Based Pedagogy"	06
07 Applications for the 2019 Undergraduate History Conference Due!	08 Learn to Code with Me The Crucible of Empire Lecture Series - Lecture by Dr. Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina Why Does Cuba Matter? by Rafael Betancourt	09 CTE Mini-Seminar: Nina Power, "Voice, Noise, Silence, the City, Nature" April 9, 10, 11, 4-6pm; HG1010 (reception to follow first seminar)	10 Film Screening: Our Bodies Our Doctors, Featuring a Q&A with the Director	11 International Student TAs: Panel / Forum Graduate Student Speaker: Paul Whitfield (SFSU)	12	13 Build your career with advice from leading art professionals at the ArtTable Career Development Roundtable: Saturday, April 13th, 2019
14	15 Semnani Conference - The Heart of Iran: Seleucia-Ctesiphon and a New Iranian Urbanism "American Sutra: Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American Incarceration" by Duncan Williams Talk and Book-signing by Mohammed Al Samawi, Author of The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America New Orleans: Past and Present \| A Talk by Jason Berry Investigative Journalism: A Master Class with Journalist Jason Berry Hybrid and Online Language Courses: Best (and Worst) Practices by Dr. Florencia Henshaw from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign	16	17 Unreal Realities: A Reading and Author Talk with Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox Grad Student Brown Bag Discussion with Jordy Rosenberg The Vahe and Armine Meghrouni Lecture Series: "Language and Aesthetics in Dispersion: Armenian Literature after the Genocide" with Professor Talar Chahinian	18 The Fifth Annual Keith Nelson Lecture in U.S. International History: "The Hearts of Foreigners, How Americans Understand Others" featuring Dr. Tim Borstelmann Pedagogy Skill Share Asian American Studies Turns 50! Reggaeton, Latin Trap and Bad Bunny with Mell Rivera Diaz VS Film Screening Series this Thursday! 'A Silent Voice: The movie	19 HGSA Conference Maestro Hossein Omoumi & Friends - Traditional Persian Musical Concert - Night 1 Recent Books in Korean Studies, Colloquium 2019	20 Maestro Hossein Omoumi & Friends - Traditional Persian Musical Concert - Night 2 Celebrate UCI: English department Open House
21	22 Learn to Code with Me Compound Words, Synthetic World: Chemists, Computing & the Environment, Evan Hepler Smith AHUA's Annual Art Exhibit and Opening Night Reception	23 Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday at the Langson Library "The Creation of Modern Persian Language and Literature from the Sasanians to Samanids" by Dr. Mahmoud Omidsalar Graduate Student Teaching Community	24 Latin America in View with Maria del Rosario Acosta UCI Giving Day	25 "What is Art Doing for You?" By Southern California Working Group on "Hispanism: Social and Critical Thought" "Translating performance and the Energy of the Line": a talk, a dialogue, a performance with Tracie Morris and Vincent Broqua Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture at Laguna Art Museum: "Shakespeare Dwelling" Grace Talusan, author of "The Body Papers"	26 "'A Strange Creature of the Night': Raúl Grigera and the Feat of Black Celebrity in 1910s Buenos Aires" by Dr. Paulina Alberto Philosophical Approaches to Infinity: History, Ontology, Cosmology Humanities Core UROP 2019 Docunight: Iranian Documentary Series - "October 13, 1937" Remembrance of Things Past: A Proustian Extravaganza II Visual Studies Graduate Student Conference 'Vision as a Critique' Studying Visual Culture	27
28	29	30 "Persian Literature on the National Stage" by Dr. Mahmoud Omidsalar A Reading and Author Talk with Xue Yiwei QA in Review APRIL 30: THE MAKING OF A GREAT "COLUMN ONE," WITH STEVE PADILLA OF THE LA TIMES Culture & Capital Reading Group: Racecraft by Barbara J. Fields and Karen Elise Fields QA in Review