25th Anniversary of the UC Humanities Initiative & Society of Fellows

Apr 18–Apr 19, 2013
UC Los Angeles


 

How do ideas circulate between the humanities and the arts, the sciences and beyond to help us make meaning in the complex global culture of the 21st century? Humanities in Circulation brought together scholars, novelists and artists from across the University of California to engage these questions through public conversations and a showcase of new research in the humanities.

25th Anniversary Kick Off

Thursday, April 18 @ UCLA’s Fowler Museum

6:00 pm |  Opening Reception, Terrace

7:30 pm | Race, Representation, Repression and Resistance @ Lenart Auditorium

Ernest Cole’s photographs of apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s document a brutal reality of the country’s storied history. Issues of race, repression, representation and resistance intrinsic to these arresting images will be the focus of an esteemed panel including political activist and scholar Angela Davis, artist Ken Gonzalez-Day and anthropologist Jean Comaroff and moderated by political theorist Wendy Brown.

This co-sponsored event is part of the Fowler OutSpoken Conversation Series.

Society of Fellows Programs

Friday, April 19 @ Young Library Research Commons, UCLA

12:00-6:00 pm Panels and presentations by the 2012-13 UC President’s Faculty and Graduate Fellows in the Humanities.

25th Anniversary Closing Event @ Fowler Museum

6:30 pm Reception | Fowler Ampitheater

7:30 pm  Humanities in Circulation: Writing/Reading/Riffing | Lenart Auditorium

Acclaimed novelists Bharati Mukerjee, Hector Tobar and Karen Tei Yamashita join host David Kipen for an evening of readings and conversation exploring the creative process and the humanities in circulation across texts and times, genres and geographies.