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Lunar New Year
 
 
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UCI Lunar New Year Celebration
 
Join us Feb. 5 for an Anteater celebration of the 2024 Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon!

Feb. 5, 2024 | 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. | UCI Student Center & The Irvine Barclay Theatre

 
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Jenniffer Perez Lopez in Guatemala with her family
 
 
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Reuniting abroad
 
UC students conduct research and reconnect with loved ones across borders

 
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Roger Whitenhill
 
 
A bold glass
 
Banking executive Roger Whitenhill, '03 economics and international studies, pursues his passion of business ownership and opens a winery
 
 
Shyla Raghav
 
 
Time's Chief Climate Officer has deep Irvine roots
 
Shyla Raghav '07 international studies and applied ecology is leading the charge in climate change communication and action
 
 
Liz Hafen
 
 
Making a global difference
 
Anteaters have been involved with the Fulbright Program for three decades
 
 
 
Shawn Khalifa
 
 
UCI Podcast: Underground Scholar Shawn Khalifa, sociology, shares his journey
 
How education helped formerly incarcerated student overcome societal barriers
 
 
DDI
 
 
UCI gets funding boost to combat hate, extremism
 
UCI Center for Racial Healing receives grant to expand social justice education, training and outreach
 
 
Derenik Dumanyan
 
 
Finding home away from home
 
'23 poli sci alumnus Derenik Dumanyan's path from Armenia to UCI
 
 
 
 
Megan Peters
 
 
Peters receives Scialog award for second year in a row
 
Funding supports the UCI cognitive scientist's collaborative research on consciousness
 
 
Matt Huffman
 
 
Huffman named inaugural associate dean of student programs in social sciences
 
New leadership role will have the sociologist overseeing the school's award-winning academic, outreach and engagement programs
 
 
Arum and Duncan
 
 
Arum and Duncan recognized among top 60 influential education scholars nationwide in 2024
 
Professors from sociology and education recognized in RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings for impact on education policy and practice
 
 
 
Kim Romney
 
 
In memoriam: A. Kimball Romney
 
UCI anthropology research professor | 1925-2023
 
 
Larry Kugelman
 
 
In memoriam: Larry Kugelman
 
UCI Foundation trustee, former chairman and founding member of the UCI School of Social Sciences Board of Councilors, founding board member of the UCI Center for Citizen Peacebuilding | 1942-2024
 
 
 
 
 
soc sci
in the media
 
Social sciences faculty and graduate students are consistently sought by media for their expertise in areas ranging from digital play to gender pay. Check out some of our top hits, self-authored pieces, and on-air interviews below, or visit us online for the full run down.
 
Nadia Chernyak

How children perceive gendered division of household work

Nadia Chernyak, cognitive sciences, and coresearcher Allegra Midgette explain in this podcast with the PNAS Journal.

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Bill Maurer
 
Maurer on paper checks
 
Marketplace
 
Cailin O'Connor
 
O'Connor on
misinformation
 
Wired
 
 
 
David Neumark
 
Neumark on minimum wage
 
Slate
 
Claire Jean Kim
 
Kim on race,
politics
 
Salon
 
Wang Feng

Wang Feng, sociology, offers perspective in this interview with NPR.

Listen in.
 
Roxanne Varzi
 
Varzi on
dyslexia
 
Dyslexic Advantage
Podcast
 
Matt Freedman
 
Freedman on
HOAs
 
Motley
Fool
 
 
 
Louis DeSipio
 
DeSipio on politics
 
ABC, Yahoo News
 
Dorie Solingen
 
Solinger on China
 
NPR
 
 
 
 
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30
 
JAN
 
   
 
Chasing the Archive: The Adventure of the Paula Project
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 777

featuring Isabel Wu, Ph.D. Candidate, UCI History Department
 
 
 
 
 
 
30
 
JAN
 
   
 
Researching China in a New Era: Academic Exchange and Collaboration
 
2:00-3:00 p.m. | online

featuring Michael Szonyi,  Harvard, and Joseph Esherick,  UCSD
 
 
 
 
 
 
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FEB
 
   
 
The Green Revolution is Not Always Bloodless: Agricultural Modernization and Rural Conflict in Brazil
 
1:30-3:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring David Samuels, University of Minnesota
 
 
 
 
 
 
01
 
FEB
 
   
 
Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India's Professional Elite
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100

featuring Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Professor of Law, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
02
 
FEB
 
   
 
Psychiatry for Internal Colonialism: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic, 1946-1958
 
2:00-3:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

featuring Kevin Duong, University of Virginia
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
FEB
 
   
 
Lunar New Year 2024
 
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. | UCI Student Center and The Irvine Barclay Theatre
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
FEB
 
   
 
The Peking Express: A Fireside Chat with Author James Zimmerman
 
1:00-3:00 p.m. | UCI Student Center, Moss Cove A-B

featuring James Zimmerman, Author and Lawyer
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
FEB
 
   
 
Gendering the Merchant Economy
 
2:00-3:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112

featuring Aida Hozic, University of Florida
 
 
 
 
 
 
06
 
FEB
 
   
 
Gatekeeping, Sexual Obligation, and Displays of Male Dominance: How Intimate Contexts Structure Penile-Vaginal Sexual Experiences during the Transition to Adulthood
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | 1517 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

featuring Jennifer Barber, Professor of sociology and Senior Scientist, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
 
 
 
 
 
 
06 
 
FEB
 
   
 
Causal Effects of Early Career Sorting on Labor and Marriage Market Choices: A Foundation for Gender Disparities and Norms
 
2:00-3:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132

featuring Itzik Fadlon, UC San Diego
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
FEB
 
   
 
If They Only Knew: Informing Blacks and Whites about the Racial Wealth Gap
 
5:30-6:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring Vincent Hutchings, Professor, University of Michigan
 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
FEB
 
   
 
Bayesians Commit the Gambler's Fallacy
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

featuring Kevin Dorst, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
FEB
 
   
 
Workshop: On Reflection
 
9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. | Social and Behavior Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
 
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
FEB
 
   
 
The Elasticity of Caste in the Sikh Diaspora: "Jat Cool" and Caste Masculinities in the Transnational Pacific Northwest
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100

featuring Sasha Sabherwal, Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies, Northeastern University
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
FEB
 
   
 
One Kind of Adaptationism
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

featuring Rose Novick, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington
 
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
FEB
 
   
 
On the Efficiency of Finely Stratified Experiments
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218

featuring Yuehao Bai, University of Southern California
 
 
 
 
 
 
28
 
FEB
 
   
 
Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Jean-Paul Carvalho, University of Oxford
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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