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Blood Sugar, CA 1903 by Javier Luis Hurtado

    • April 2, 2026
    • 6:30pm - 8:30pm
    • Humanities Hall, Room 161 (Little Theater)

Finding a Job as a Social Science Major

    • April 7, 2026
    • 2:30pm - 3:30pm
    • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
    • Division of Career Pathways Staff

China Town Hall 2026 - Local Edition

    • April 7, 2026
    • 3:30pm - 5:30pm
    • Hybrid: Zoom + Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
    • Samantha Vortherms, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine | Cory Combs, Associate Director, Trivium China

90 Day Fiance, Passport Bros and International Dating

    • April 7, 2026
    • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
    • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
    • Julia Meszaros, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, East Texas A&M University

UCDC Info Session

    • April 8, 2026
    • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    • Zoom (pre-registration required)
    • Office of Civic Engagement Staff

Measuring, Explaining, and Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: Evidence Across Methods, Mechanisms, and Policy

    • April 9, 2026
    • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
    • Fenaba Addo, Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Beyond Informality: How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Economy

    • April 9, 2026
    • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
    • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
    • Douglas de Toledo Piza, International Affairs, Lafayette College

Number, Adaptation, and Perception

    • April 10, 2026
    • 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
    • Sam Clarke, Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Psychology, USC

The Intergenerational Effects of Widowhood

    • April 13, 2026
    • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
    • Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132
    • Anthony Bald, Cal State Fullerton 

Optimizing Your Summer for Grad School Applications

    • April 13, 2026
    • 3:30pm - 4:30pm
    • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
    • SSARC Team

Redefining Patriotism: Veterans' Progressive Activism in a Time of Crisis

    • April 15, 2026
    • 11:30am - 1:00pm
    • Hybrid: Zoom + Social Science Tower, Room 318
    • panel discussion

LeadHER Info Session

    • April 15, 2026
    • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    • Zoom (pre-registration required)
    • SSARC Team

Landscapes of White Supremacy: Water, Aridity, and Racial Domination in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa

    • April 15, 2026
    • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
    • 1321 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
    • Meredith McKittrick, George Town University

In Full Bloom: A Flower Bouquet Making Social

    • April 21, 2026
    • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
    • SSARC Team

Mobilized: Labor and Political Mobilization between Sudan and Lebanon

    • April 21, 2026
    • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
    • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
    • Anna Simone Reumert, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Selection into Public Education by Age and Family Income

    • April 23, 2026
    • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
    • Emily Penner, Associate Professor, School of Education, UCI

About Face Documentary Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Jennifer Lin

    • April 23, 2026
    • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
    • Humanities Gateway, Room 1070 (McCormick Screening Room)
    • Jennifer Lin, Award-Winning Author, Filmmaker, and Former Journalist

Bugs in Democracy: Gerrymandering, Inequities in Voter Power and Rules of Election

    • April 24, 2026
    • 12:00pm - 1:15pm
    • Zoom (pre-registration required)
    • Sam Wang, Professor of Neuroscience, Princeton University

Adolescent Arrivals: Navigating Fear and Belonging in New Beginnings

    • April 24, 2026
    • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
    • Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
    • Liliana Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Epidemiological Medicine

    • April 24, 2026
    • 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
    • Jonathan Fuller, Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Marketcraft and the Politics of Profit in Nigeria's Global South Shift

    • April 29, 2026
    • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
    • Hybrid: Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 + Zoom (pre-registration required)
    • Vivian Lu, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rice University

Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War

    • April 30, 2026
    • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
    • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
    • Nana Osei-Opare, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rice

PRIM Graduate Student Showcase

    • May 11, 2026
    • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
    • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo

    • May 13, 2026
    • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
    • Hybrid: Zoom + Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
    • Julia Elyachar, Princeton University

Selective Admissions and Academic Value-Added: Evidence from Indian Higher Education

    • May 14, 2026
    • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
    • Karthik Muralidharan, Tata Chancellor's Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego

Taxation at the Edges of Morality: A Statewide Experiment on Tobacco Enforcement in California

    • May 21, 2026
    • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
    • Julian Gerez, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, UC Irvine

What Matters to Me and Why

    • May 27, 2026
    • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    • Newkirk Alumni Center Conference Room A-D
    • Ana Rosas, Chicano/Latino Studies and History, UC Irvine

Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net

    • June 4, 2026
    • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
    • Jessica Calarco, Sociology Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Foundations of Physics

    • June 16, 2026 - June 18, 2026
    • 9:00am - 6:00pm
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