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The Forum for the Academy and the Public: Using Fiction to Shed Light on the PRC

On Thursday, December 2nd @ 2PM join the Forum for the Academy and the Public for the third entry in a special book slam series: "Using Fiction to Shed Light on the PRC."

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Watch here: Conversation with Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States!

Enjoy a recording of a special Q&A conversation with Joy Harjo about her life and work!

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Being the Future: New Course Welcomes First-Gen Students to the School of Humanities

A new course welcomes incoming first-gen students majoring in the humanities by introducing students to UCI and the humanities curriculum. Scott Lerner shares his goals for this course and what he expects students to gain from it!

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Egyptomania in the Mail & Online: Digital Archives and Imperial Imaginings

Students and faculty joined DHX as UCI Assistant Professor Ian Straughn presented a discussion on his digital pedagogy and partnership with UCI Libraries as well as showcase the Egyptomania digital project.

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UCI DIY: an Opportunity for Undergraduates

The UCI DIY project, in partnership with the Division of Undergraduate Education, UCI Illuminations and the Humanities Center's 'To Form a More Perfect Union?' series, invites undergraduates to submit a range of creative and critical work in robust conversation with the speakers appearing this coming academic year.
Students, faculty, and artists gathered to celebrate the various ways in which we are woven together as a community. Faculty reflected on the cultural and environmental value in creating community. Artistic performances, blended from Moroccan, Indigenous, and Japanese cultures.

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The BPOCS Cluster is Building Community this Summer

Meet another member of the Black Panther Oakland Community School Cluster
First Generation Student Involvement in BPOCS Cluster

Meet the Members of the Black Panther Oakland Community School Research Cluster
Fall 2021 Seminar on First Generation Success

Scott Learner Teaches Seminar for First Generation Students in the Humanities
Intergenerational Community Storytelling with "Sharing Comfort and Care"

Sharing and Comfort and Care: Intergenerational Story-Mapping in the Cambodian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities

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Events

A philisophical approach to culture, and especially to literature, that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures that produce and constrain it.

December 1, 2021
Pedagogical Humanities: Roundtable: TEACHING FOR INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
December 2, 2021
The Forum for the Academy and the Public: Using Fiction to Shed Light on the PRC
December 3, 2021
Grad Lab Workshop: Student-Facilitated Event
December 9, 2021
Leviathan Unbound: Hobbes Across the Disciplines
December 9, 2021
The New Class Analysis: Perspectives from the Academy and Beyond with Catherine Liu, George Hoare and Alex Hochuli
December 9, 2021
Tiny Desk Skillshare: Your Online Platforms
December 15, 2021
Graduate Futures Reading Group: Katina Rogers, "Inclusive Systems, Vibrant Scholarship"

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Watch What Happened in Demystifying the Book Publishing Process

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