Events

In this richly illustrated lecture, Joan Judge explores the emergence of “Republican Ladies,” a new group of women in early twentieth century China, who were more visible than their talented late imperial forebears and more respectable than their infamously public courtesan contemporaries. She draws upon photographs and texts that appeared in China’s first commercial women’s […]

At this critical time in the history of our university and the academy, in general, please join us for a workshop on the future of the Humanities led by David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Goldberg, a professor at UC-Irvine, is a ground breaking scholar of critical race […]

Join us for the second talk in the Unfinished Revolutions Lecture Series: Mario Garcia: "Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian's Quest"

Please see full posterfor speaker list and complete announcement! The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, and on pedagogical, and organizational form. The university as such has come into question, both within and without. This understandably has prompted both anxiety and critical responses among […]