UCI Global Cultures Major

Good news for Global Cultures majors!! "Degree holders in area studiesmajors like Latin American Studies and Gender Studieslogged the largest gains in full-time employment and pay, with average starting salaries rising 26% to $43,524 for the class of 2015, compared with the previous year’s graduates. Language studies posted the second-highest salary gains. Though area studies majors comprise less than 1% of all graduates in the survey, the pay numbers show employers are see...king hires with communication skills and comfort in multicultural environments, said Edwin Koc, NACE’s director of research, public policy and legislative affairs." http://www.wsj.com//hunting-for-soft-skills-companies-scoo

East LA Interchange Film Screening and Q & A with Filmmaker Betsy Kalin Thursday, October 27th East LA Interchange tells the story of working-class, immigrant Boyle Heights, the oldest neighborhood in East Los Angeles. Targeted by government policies, real estate laws, and California planners, this quintessential immigrant neighborhood survived racially restrictive housing covenants, Japanese-American Internment, Federal redlining policies, lack of political representation, a...nd the building of the largest and busiest freeway interchange system in the nation, the East L.A. Interchange. The documentary explores how the freeways a symbol of Los Angeles ingrained in America’s popular imagination impact Boyle Heights’ residents: literally, as an environmental hazard and structural blockade and figuratively, as a conversational interchange about why the future of their beloved community should matter to us all. 5:00 pm (with reception prior, sponsored by the Architecture & Urban Studies Research Cluster) McCormick Screening Room Q and A with filmmaker Betsy Kalin following the screening Co-sponsored by the Program in Visual Studies and the Department of Chicano-Latino Studies, and Chancellor’s ILLUMINATIONS Initiative

http://www.cie.uci.edu/glp/ Studying Abroad and participating in UCI's Global Leadership Program are perfect fits of the Global Cultures major!

We'll be holding the quarterly FREE GLOBAL CULTURES LUNCHEON on Wednesday October 12 from 11:30-1:30 at the Phoenix Grill (on campus, adjacent to Aldrich Park, close to the inner paved circle). The purpose of this informal get together is to give me an opportunity to meet you and for you to interact with fellow students in the program. Lunch will be served any time between 11:30 and 1:30. You will be given a voucher of $7.00 and we'll have a section of the restaurant reserved for our group. If you have a friend who is interested in pursuing a Global Cultures major or minor, you are welcome to invite him/her as well to our free lunch.

CORE COURSES OFFERED THIS YEAR: Fall 2016 Global Cultures 103A: Culture, Money & Globalization (Prof. M. Levine) Global Cultures 103A: Global Art (Prof. J. Nisbet)... Winter 2017 Global Cultures 103B: Globalization & Cultural Transformations (Prof. A. Ahmad) Global Cultures 105: Language Origins: Evolution, Genetics, and the Brain (Prof. A. Schwegler) Spring 2017 Global Cultures 103A: Language and Place (Prof. J. Won Lee) Global Cultures 191 (Capstone Seminar): Globalization from Below (Prof. A. Johnson)

Dear Global Cultures majors, minors and friends: I am delighted to invite you to a free luncheon at the Phoenix Grill (on campus, adjacent to the Aldrich Park, close to the inner paved circle) on Wednesday May 4th. This used to be a quarterly tradition for the Global Cultures majors but we haven’t had one yet this year! The purpose of this informal get-together is to give me an opportunity to meet you and for you to interact with fellow students in the program. We will also b...e joined by Sachiko Kido who graduated with a Global Cultures major in 2008 and works with Salesforce now. She can talk to you about her career path and how the Global Cultures major helped her. Please mark your calendar and do join us! Lunch will be served any time between 11:30 and 1:30. You will be given a voucher of $7.00, and we’ll have a section of the restaurant reserved for our group. One more thing: do tell other students about our exciting major. If you do have a friend who is interested in pursuing a Global Cultures major or minor, invite him/her as well to our free lunch. I look forward to seeing you!

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Ackbar Abbas Slowness and Volatility, or, Waiting for the World to Writhe in Ecstasy at Your Feet December 2, 2015... 5-7 PM HIB 135 This lecture will trace a history of volatile space through a discussion of the poetics of the 'Long Take,' the problematic subjectivity of the 'Dividual,' the politics of the 'Occupy Movement' in Hong Kong, as well as Kafka's aphorism written in Zurau alluded to in the title. Ackbar Abbas is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine with research interests in Globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, postcoloniality, critical theory and has written extensively on Hong Kong culture, architecture, and cinema. His books include Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and Internationalizing Cultural Studies (co-edited with John Erni, Blackwell, 200

The UCLA-Summer Program in Havana is now open for registration. It is open to all University of California Students. http://ieo.ucla.edu/travelstudy/Sociology-PoliSci-Cuba

Join us on November 5th, 2015, for a public lecture, "Dead in the Waters," given by Brad Evans, Founder/Director of Histories of Violence Project. 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine Free and open to the public

The International Studies Public Forum, UC Humanities Research Institute, and Illuminations Present Revolting Music Neo Muyanga... Thursday Nov. 5, 2015 5:00-6:20 pm Social Sciences Plaza A, Rm 1100 South African musician and co-founder, PanAfrican Space Station "Revolting Music - A survey of the songs of protest that liberated South Africa." It often comes as something of a surprise to many visitors to find that we, in South Africa, sang and danced throughout the decade of the 1980's - a period many agree was one of the most violent phases in the struggle against the system of apartheid, and yet we, the people, sang and we made art fervently during this time. These acts were not merely stratagems for fun but the songs were a part of our arsenal in the fight to secure democratic rights for all and to overthrow the government. During his talk, Neo Muyanga will present a series of anecdotes and medleys of songs of protest from the era of the 80's - songs of his youth - juxtaposed against new songs he has composed in response to the challenges of new socio-political realities in South Africa Today. This talk is sponsored by the Institute for International, Global and Regional Studies (IIGARS)