Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium

The Beckman Center 100 Academy, Irvine, CA, United States

Please RSVP and join us for the Newkirk Faculty Fellowship Symposium, "Existential Crises and Imagining Futures" on Friday, January 24, 2025 from 9am - 1:30pm at the Beckman Center, Huntington Room. The symposium will highlight the creative activities of the Newkirk Faculty Fellows and end with an interactive discussion with guests. Continental breakfast will be…

White Privilege: Panel Discussion and Performance

Experimental Media Performance Lab

A performative lecture by Thomas DeFrantz with live sound design and electronic music by Quran Karriem, White Privilege engages white privilege as a discourse, casting the performative space as an opportunity to enlarge care and do better. Friday, January 25, 2025 @ 11am Join us for a conversation with writer/performer Thomas DeFrantz and composer/performer Quran Karriem about their work, White Privilege. Dean Tiffany Ana López will moderate a discussion about…

CLEAR Distinguished Lecture: Dylan Penningroth—Before the Movement

Education Building, Room 1111

The UC Irvine Law Center for Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) welcomes Professor Dylan Penningroth to discuss his book, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023). Book signing and reception to follow. Publisher's Description The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people…