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Institute of Arts and Humanities

Welcome to Spring Quarter Newsletter

Dear students, faculty, staff and community,


As the world has gained some control over the global pandemic, the start of 2023 has brought a return to a more regular in-person class schedule, and more in-person events on campus. IAH and its programs have played a role in bringing pressing international and local concerns to the attention of the campus, and to foreground creative responses to environmental and political changes. In the Spring quarter, we will continue the ongoing Challenging Conversations series, which creates a forum for presenting the complexities of current political and social events. We hope the Institute can continue to be a place that brings people together as we strive for a more peaceful and just future.


Warmly,

Daniel Widener

Director

 

Amelia Glaser

Associate Director

Installation of Professor Amelia Glaser as Chair in Judaic Studies

The Jewish Studies Program was pleased to host the installation of Amelia Glaser as Chair of Judaic Studies where she spoke about her current research, "Mine from '33, yours from '41": Poetic Reinventions in Contemporary Ukraine


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Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex: with Sekou Odinga and Curtis Howard

Black Diaspora and African American Studies Program Director Dennis Childs moderated a discussion between Sekou Odinga and Curtis Howard. Although imprisoned decades apart, Odinga and Howard addressed the similarities of their experiences in the prison industrial complex, which Childs placed in context as a modern form of slavery.


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Theater of War: The Suppliants Project

The Center for Hellenic Studies, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, and The Humanities Program at Revelle College hosted The Suppliants Project, featuring professional actors alongside San Diego community members, who performed readings from Aeschylus' play The Suppliants. The ancient tragedy about fifty refugees who seek asylum served as a catalyst for candid discussions about the current issues of immigration, refugees, and domestic and gender-based violence.


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Japanese Studies Alumni Perspectives

The Japanese Studies Program hosted their annual Alumni Perspectives event on March 3, 2023. Three alumni shared their inspiring success stories and how Japanese Studies has influenced their current lives.


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Meet the Editors: A Guide to Submitting and Publishing Your Academic Book

The Institute of Arts and Humanities hosted Meet the Editors with Niels Hooper, Margo Irvin, and Kathleen McDermott to help guide faculty and graduate students in submitting and publishing their first academic manuscript.


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Upcoming Events

April 20, 2023: (In-Person) How the US Failed Syrians | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Sanford Consortium, Roth Auditorium


May 1, 2023: (In-Person) Film Screening of Memory and Q&A with Director and Writer Alexandre O. Philippe | 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. | Price Center Theater


May 4, 2023: (In-Person) Annual Katzin Lecture: Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the 21st Century with Melissa Weininger | 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Atkinson Pavilion, Faculty Club


May 11, 2023: (In-Person) Challenging Conversations: Ongoing War in Ukraine with Andrey Kurkov | 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Price Center Red Shoe Room, Level 2


May 15, 2023: (In-Person) Film Screening of Leap of Faith and Q&A with Director and Writer Alexandre O. Philippe | 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. | Price Center Theater


May 16, 2023: (In-Person) Annual Ranglas Lecture: "Doing whatever she wants, and going wherever she pleases"; Women's Agency in the Delphic Manumission Inscriptions with Sara Forsdyke | 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. | Village 15A


May 24, 2023: (In-Person) Piglets in the Underworld: A Puppet Show Lecture with Mike Chin | 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Hojel Hall, Institute of the Americas

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The Institute of Arts and Humanities emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary thinking in addressing the needs of a complex world. We house 16 academic programs and 1 center in regional, ethnic, and thematic studies. Our programs equip students to analyze and speak about the past, present, and future with creativity and insight.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies | Black Diaspora and African American Studies

Chicanx and Latinx Studies | Chinese Studies | Classical Studies | European Studies

Film Studies | German Studies | Global South Studies | Italian Studies

Japanese Studies | Jewish Studies | Middle East Studies

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Science Studies | Transnational Korean Studies

Center for Hellenic Studies