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- Lijia Zhang: Writing in the Ne...
1010 Humanities Gateway
Friday, October 29 at 12:00pm
UC Irvine Humanities Center Lijia Zhang is the author of Socialism is Great! A Worker's Memoir of the New China. Event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the UCI Humanities Collective, the Center for Asian Studies, The China Beat, the History Department, and the International Center for Writing & Translation.
Time:12:00PM Friday, October 29th
Location:1010 Humanities Gateway
Time:2:00PM Wednesday, November 4th
Location:1341 Humanities Gateway
UC Irvine Humanities Center
Incognegro is the winner of the 2008 American Book Award/Before Columbus Foundation.
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two Black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him “a threat to national security.” Wilderson was ask...ed to comment. Incognegro is that “comment.” It is also his response to a question posed five years later by a student in a California university classroom: “How come you came back?” -http://www.southendpress.org/2007/items/
Lecture + reception free & open to the public. No RSVP necessary.
Time:5:00PM Thursday, November 12th
Location:UC Irvine
Civic History as Plaything, and How to Fight it (Hint: UCI Microfilm Machines!)"
Time:6:00PM Thursday, October 15th
Location:UC Irvine
