The UCI Humanities Center Invites you to envision the time yet to come…
- How does it alter the way we understand our past and our possibilities?
- What persists or changes?
- In ourselves, our communities, and our environment?
- What are our hopes and fears?
For 2024-2025, the UCI Humanities Center will explore past and present visions of the future and how these imaginings shape our understandings of the past. How have human beings hoped what might be different or remain the same about the time yet to come? How have we engaged in thought experiments about the possibilities of altered human bodies and psyches, social structures and technological development, as well as natural and built environments? What do utopian and dystopian visions reveal to us about human “nature?” What is possible to change and what is not?
These are some of the key questions that the UCI Humanities Center will be exploring. We also hope to highlight programming that is taking place across the UCs as well. Please join us!
For more information, contact Professor Judy Wu (j.wu@uci.edu)
Imagining Futures, Revisioning Pasts Panel, Oct 3, 2024
A scholar, author, pedagogue, and visual artist, Jonathan works in the fields of writing studies, sexuality studies, life writing and memoir. He is the director of Humanities Core
Allison works primarily in the philosophy of language, and its intersections with socially-minded issues in ontology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.
Viviane works on modern and contemporary Latin America, with an interest in early 20th century avant-gardes, the genre of the chronicle and feminist activism in Mexico.
Tyrus is a scholar of 20th-century art, literature, and culture, with a specialization in the modernist and avant-garde literary and artistic movements of Europe and the US.
Associate Dean, School of Humanities; Professor, Departments of History and Asian American Studies
Winter Quarter Events
Mapping New California Histories
Jan 23–Jan 24, 2025
University of California Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine
A UCHRI and UC Humanities Network Entanglement Program in partnership with the UC Irvine History Project, the UC Irvine Teacher Academy, and the UC Irvine Humanities Center.
Elevating the work of public historians, geographers, K-12 teachers, and community and university archivists, this event invites participants to share their work recovering stories and mapping the impact of diverse communities that have contributed to the political culture and democratic promise of California. By bringing together public historians from around the state, this convening aims to share new knowledge and collaborative curricula that link regional histories to an expanded vision of California as a whole. The program features regional history projects from eight UC campuses that document the entanglement of migration, conquest, land use, integration, contestation, creativity, and renewal that shape the region. The event includes hands-on opportunities to explore unique primary sources from around the state.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Humanities Instructional Building 135
4:00 pm | Learning with A People’s Guide to Orange County
featuring co-authors Gustavo Arellano (LA Times), Thuy Vo Dang (UC Los Angeles) and Elaine Lewinnek (CSU Fullerton).
Introduction by Julia Lupton, UCHRI; Q and A facilitated by Cindy Mata, UC Irvine History Project
Reception to follow.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Humanities Instructional Building 135
9:00 am to 4:00pm
For the full schedule for both days, you can find it at the following link:
Mapping New California Histories event
This convening is funded by MRPI funds from the UC Office of the President.
Image credits (from lower left, clockwise): Jose and Tecla Reyes in the Strawberry Fields, c. 1955 (Reyes Family Collection, Watsonville Is in the Heart Community Digital Archive); Japanese American Community in Winters, California, 1930s (Yolo County Archives); Hendrik Zeitler, from The Archive’s Fold (Latipa, 2018).
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Please join us for our upcoming discussion:
“Lost Voices of Revolution: Growing Up in the Black Panther Party”
Join us to meet Meres-Sia Gabriel (writer, performance artist, and daughter of Black Panther Party members Emory Douglas, artist and the “Minister of Culture," and Gayle “Asali” Dickson, artist and educator. Gabriel will be in conversation with Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest (independent scholar, documentarian, and lead mentor of the UCI Black Panther Oakland Community School Research Cluster).
Friday, February 21, 2025
11-12pm
HIB 100