Events

Lunar New Year 2022: Year of the Tiger ♥

Thank you to our Anteater community for submitting photos and videos showcasing how you and your loved ones celebrate Lunar New Year. Click here to see some of the highlights, and don’t forget to download your Year of the Tiger Zoom backgrounds to include in meetings and virtual gatherings. Happy Lunar New Year from all…

Literally Displaced: Writing the Southeast Asian Diaspora – Exhibit ♥

Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center

Literally Displaced: Writing the Southeast Asian Diaspora – Exhibit Thu, Feb 3, 2022 8:00 AM –Thu, Mar 31, 2022 8:00 AM PST (GMT-8) Details Literally Displaced: Writing the Southeast Asian Diaspora centers the voices, memories, experiences, and desires of writers from the Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese diaspora. Exploring their selected published works alongside materials from…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen by UCI Illuminations ♥ ★

Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center

Join us for a stirring and provocative evening of fiction, history and commentary with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen Date and time Thu, February 3, 2022 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PST Add to calendar Location Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center 311 W Peltason Drive A Irvine, CA 92697 View Map About this…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen by UCI Illuminations ♥ ★

Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center

Join us for a stirring and provocative evening of fiction, history and commentary with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen Date and time Thu, February 3, 2022 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PST Add to calendar Location Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center 311 W Peltason Drive A Irvine, CA 92697 View Map About this…

Dean’s Equity and Inclusion Series: “The Challenges and Possibilities of Southeast Asian American and Black Solidarity” ♥

Zoom

The UCI School of Education Brown Bag series presents The UCI School of Education Dean’s Equity and Inclusion Series “The Challenges and Possibilities of Southeast Asian American and Black Solidarity” Presented by Stacey J. Lee Associate Dean for Education, School of Education Frederick Erickson WARF Professor of Educational Policy Studies University of Wisconsin Monday, March…

Teaching for Justice Conference: A Spotlight On Teaching Asian American Studies Across the Curriculum ♥

Hybrid

Teaching for Justice Conference: A Spotlight On Teaching Asian American Studies Across the Curriculum Friday, April 29 – Saturday, April 30, 2022 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Online/In-Person RSVP Here The UCI Center for Educational Partnership and UCI Teacher Academy formally invite you to a 2-day conference for K-12 educators and all stakeholders interested in…

Students Activating Social Innovation Conference 2022: Love Letters to Liberation ♥ ★

Anteater Learning Pavilion

The SASI student group, sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, is very excited to be hosting its first annual student-led social justice conference on April 2nd, 2022 to highlight the work of students and professors on campus. The conference is called "SASICon22: Love Letters to Liberation"; as the title…

Leading for Change with Dr. Gina Garcia ♥★

Virtual

Fireside chat with Dr. Gina Garcia, leading expert on Hispanic Serving Institutional framework. This event is for students and is marketed UC-wide and co-hosted with 5 UC Chicanx/Latinx Student Centers: Berkeley, Riverside, Santa Cruz, San Diego & Irvine.

Global Conversations: Japanese Cart Puppetry: “Kuruma Ningyō” ♥

Virtual

Japan boasts a rich heritage of diverse forms of puppetry that include exquisitely crafted figures, unusual forms of manipulation, and poetic dramatic texts. Derived from bunraku, possibly the most known Japanese puppetry to the world, kuruma ningyō shares some similarities with bunraku but also has its unique features. In kuruma ningyō, or “cart puppetry,” performers,…