Trans-Scripts, the graduate student-run interdisciplinary journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine, will publish its second issue - "Queer Interventions and Intersections" - in May 2012. Join the Departments of African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, History, and Women's Studies, and the Ph.D. Program in Culture and Theory in a sponsored launch party featuring a talk by Tom Boellstorff, anthropology professor, entitled "The Politics of Similitude: Global Sexuality Activism, Ethnography, and the Western Subject." Shadee Malaklou, Ph.D. candidate in culture and theory, will moderate the talk.

May 16, 2012
5:00-7:00 p.m.
HIB 135

Wine, cheese, and fruit reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public. Faculty and graduate students from across the university are welcome and encouraged to attend. For further information, please contact Jen Kosakowski, jkosakow@uci.edu. Visit http://www.humanities.uci.edu/collective/hctr/trans-scripts/recent_issue... for a copy of the 2011 journal.

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, History, and Women's Studies, and the Ph.D. Program in Culture and Theory