According to new research by Frank D. Bean, sociology Chancellor’s Professor, pathways to legalization and citizenship appear to take on greater significance for overcoming disadvantages in Mexican American educational attainment than previously thought.

Tune in to KPFK 90.7 Sunday, Feb. 5 at 12:30 p.m. to hear UCI sociologist David Smith discuss inequality in America as part of the ongoing "Insighters" series.

Live streaming is available.

What causes genocide? Why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted? In her new book, Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide, political scientist Kristen Renwick Monroe sought answers to these questions through interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.

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

From NPR:

From the Jewish Chronicle:

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.

From the American Prospect:

As uncertainty simmers in Greece over how best to handle widespread financial crisis in the Eurozone, UC Irvine economist Stergios Skaperdas offers sobering advice: “Greece needs to default on its public debt and exit the Eurozone,” he told attendees late last year at an Athens conference hosted by The Economist. The strategy may prove prudent for others in the financially strapped 17-member-state union, he added.