March 2007 Events
(as received prior to February 27, 2007)
March 1, 2007
Colloquium: The Misbehavior of Data: Basic Correlation and Regression Reconsidered by a Network Analyst
Joel Levine, Department of Mathematical Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, is scheduled to speak in SSPA 2112 on March 1, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
March 2, 2007
Colloquium: Venezuela: Popular Working Class Music in the Era of Chavez
T.M. Scruggs, University of Iowa, is scheduled to speak at UCI Cross Cultural Center on March 2, 2007 at at 3:00 P.M. Read on...
Curious Lives of Documents
Co-sponsored with UC Davis as part of the Midnight University Symposium.
Documents are pervasive artifacts: sought after, collected, venerated, hidden, depended on and fabricated by intellectuals of all paths of life. The Curious Lives of Documents Symposium will bring documents into focus, to interrogate their textures�their shifting contexts, and the simultaneous practices and relationships that surround them. For further details, please visit the Center for Ethnography.
March 7, 2007
Colloquium: Emigration, Protest and the Collapse of East Germany
Steven Plaff, University of Washington, is scheduled to speak in SSPB 4206 on March 7, 2007 from 12:00 � 1:30 p.m.
March 8, 2007
Colloquium: Revealed Preference and Stochastic Demand Correspondence
Prasanta Pattanaik, Department of Economics at UC Riverside, is scheduled to speak in SSPA 2112 on March 8, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
Colloquium: Managing African Portugal - EU Accession & the Dissolution of Lusotropicalism
Kesha Fikes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, is scheduled to speak in SSPB 4250 on March 8, 2007 from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Read on...
Young Israeli-Palestinian Youth from the OneVoice Movement
The International Studies Program, Difficult Dialogues Project, the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, and the Cross-Cultural Center invite you to attend "Young Israeli-Palestinian Youth from the OneVoice Movement," a discussion led by Sagi Rasmovich, an Israeli from Havatzelet Hasharon north of Tel Aviv and student at Netanya College, and Dalia Labadi, a Palestinian from Jenin and graduate of the Arab American University and Al-Quds University, on March 8, 2007 in SSPA 1100 from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Reception following discussion in SSPB 1208; light refreshments served. Read on...
March 15, 2007
Colloquium: Reasoning with Rules that Have Rare Exceptions - An Argumentation System with a Probabilistic Semanties
Donald Bamber, Scientist with the Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Simulation & Human Systems Technology, is scheduled to speak in SSPA 2112 on March 15, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
March 15-16, 2007
UCI Anthropology Workshop for Korea Studies
"Gaze on a Contemporary Korea" is a workshop that intends to bring together scholars from the social sciences and humanities interested in understanding emerging issues in Korea. Graduate students and professors will present a wide range of topics and methodologies that pose critical questions about the spatial and temporal disconnects between lived realities and imaginaries. The workshop will kick-off at 3:30 p.m. in SSPB 4250 with a colloquium with Nancy Abelmann titled, "Fragile Cosmopolitans:
South Korean College Students Go Global." Further details...
March 20, 2007
The Ethnography of Intellectuals and the Predicaments of Theory Today
Dominic Boyer, Cornell University and James Faubion, Rice University will present a talk and discussion on "Rethinking Postmodernism through the Ethnography of Intellectual Culture" in SSPB 4250 on March 20, 2007 from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
For current Social Sciences events, make sure to visit our website, www.socsci.uci.edu/events.php.
If you would like to post an event to the School of Social Sciences calendar, please contact your department manager or Heather Wuebker, hwuebker@uci.edu.
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