The Department of Women's Studies, Department of Anthropology and Center for Asian Studies present

Film Screening: "Tales of the Waria"
Introduction by Tom Boellstorff, Anthropology, UCI
Q&A with Kathy Huang, Director & Producer, to follow

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway, Room 1010

The School of Humanities presents

"Conversations with Étienne Balibar"
An event honoring Étienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine

February 16, 2012
1:00-7:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway, Room 1010

UCI mentioned:
People now may be sharply divided on religious lines but the Hyderabad of yesteryears presented a successful example of a pluralistic society. Regardless of their religious affiliations everyone participated in the dominant public culture, especially those living in the neighborhoods of the walled City. "The Indo-Muslim practices are not evidence of a cultural synthesis, syncretism or hybridity. Rather they are evidence of a successful plural society," remarked Karen Leonard, professor of anthropology, University of California, Irvine.

From Microlinks Connections:
As someone who has been researching mobile money—especially from the client and regulator perspectives—since 2007, Bill Maurer (Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion) has watched the unfolding story arc of mobile money regulation with keen interest. Rather than being dictated from the traditional centers of financial regulatory authority and expertise, mobile money regulation is emerging from a unique South-South conversation and knowledge transfer.

The Center for Ethnography presents

"Urban Sustainability in the Age of Climate Justice"
with Andrew Ross, New York University

Friday, January 13, 2012
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

This event is co-sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute.

For further information, please contact Sandy Cushman, scushman@uci.edu or 949-824-3344.
 

From Reuters:
David Snow, a University of California at Irvine sociologist who studies homelessness, said it was only natural to find a connection between Occupy protests and homelessness given the protesters' focus on economic inequality issues. "The rise of homelessness in the 1980s could be seen as the canary in the coal mine signaling a rise in inequality that started in the 1970s, continued in the 1980s, accelerated in the 1990s, and is now reaching a crescendo," he said.

From the San Francisco International Business Times:

As editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist since 2007, UCI anthropologist Tom Boellstorff has contributed to the journal's 36 percent increase in 5-year impact factor, 61 percent immediacy index (how quickly articles are cited) increase, and 50.9 percent increase in article influence. In 2011, the publication became the number one most downloaded journal in Wiley-Blackwell's 490 social sciences and humanities repertoire.

From NPR:

Robert Garfias, anthropology professor and world renowned ethnomusicologist, is being recognized for his lifelong contributions to the study of musicians and their musical traditions.