Humanities

Unit will foster interdisciplinary research, international collaboration

Film & media students get real-life experience aiding TV show crew covering Rams on campus

Dissecting the differences between Asian horror films and Hollywood remakes

EVENT: How do we find meaning in destruction and chaos? UCI’s series “Documenting War” brings together scholars, military personnel, artists and journalists to explore the genres, rhetoric and real effects of wartime documentation and postwar reflections. WHEN/WHERE: Oct. 20 and Nov. 9-30 at Humanities Gateway 1030 (bldg. 611, grid E7 on campus map: https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_15_map_campus_core.pdf) and the Student Center’s […]

Youth could determine outcome of presidential election – if they vote

UCI’s new degree program in global Middle East studies is not just interdisciplinary but interschool

Houri Berberian has been named the School of Humanities’ Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies. The $2 million endowed chair was established in 2014 by Vahe and Armine Meghrouni, with additional backing from the local Armenian American community and a $500,000 match from the UC Office of the President. Berberian joins UCI from California […]

Tracing coffee’s evolution from little-used African bean to ubiquitous beverage

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature, has been named the winner of the sixth Pak Kyong-ni Prize. South Korea’s first international literary award, it was established in 2011 to honor the achievements of the late South Korean novelist Pak Kyong-ni (1926-2008) and, with a cash prize of more than $90,000, is one of […]

UCI professors who were also first-generation students form support system