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School of Humanities expands interdisciplinary academic offerings
New majors and minors include Global Middle East Studies and Medical Humanities
  • Medical Humanities
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UCI philosopher Sven Bernecker awarded 2016 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Germany's most prestigious prize for international researchers, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship will bring Bernecker to…
  • Gifts & Grants
  • Philosophy
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UCI film & media studies alumni to showcase films at the Newport Beach Film Festival
Merced Bacon '15 and Patrick Reagan '06 to showcase latest films
  • Alumni
  • Film and Media Studies
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Matthias Lehmann awarded Fulbright research fellowship to write biography of Jewish philanthropist
The subject, Maurice de Hirsch, will broaden our perspective of modern Jewish history
  • Gifts & Grants
  • History
  • Jewish Studies
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Aijaz Ahmad joins UC Irvine's Department of Comparative Literature
Aijaz Ahmad, renowned political and literary theorist, joins the School of Humanities as Chancellor's Professor in the Department…
  • Comparative Literature
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Mellon Foundation Awards School of Humanities $175,000 for “Documenting War” Sawyer Seminar
Starting in 2016, the Sawyer Seminar will create a temporary research center for cross-disciplinary, intensive study of how war…
  • Art History
  • English
  • Gifts & Grants
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The death of the painter: new book by James Herbert challenges the place of the artist in his/her work
Brushstroke and Emergence: Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso (University of Chicago Press, 2015) uses emergence theory to challenge…
  • Art History
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