COMMUNITY The UCI School of Humanities is a bridge between disciplines as well as between the university and the community at large. Through the public humanities, we learn about where we came from, who our community is, and how we might best go into the future together.
Humanities Out There
The History Project
TH!NK
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The UCI Shakespeare Center Through performance,
Community events
research and teaching across
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the UCI Shakespeare Center
Philanthropic support
the university and community, builds spaces to discover and reimagine what it means to be human today. This past school year, the center hosted 15 Shakespeare workshops, seminars, and field trips for the community.
H.O.T. promotes student-based service learning & public engagement through partnerships with Bowers Museum; Cal Humanities; Laguna Art Museum; Orange County Parks, Heritage Division; the Orange County Public Library; PBS SoCal; Santa Ana Public Library; South Coast Repertory; and the Vietnamese American Arts & Letter Association/Viet Film Festival. The UC Irvine History Project provides an institutional framework for collaboration between the UCI History Department and K-12 history/social science teachers in Orange County.
60+ Daily community participants
1,041 Teachers trained
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Led by the UCI Department of Philosophy, TH!NK familiarizes grade-school students with philosophical thought and discourse through interactive training and discussion. Student
Humanities Commons supports School of Humanities faculty and graduate student scholarship, administers several inter-school centers, and provides pathways for collaboration and public-community partnerships.
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Extramural grants to the UCI School of Humanities
Grants to graduate students
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Extramural grants to faculty
Partner schools & institutions
participants
Event Highlights The Forum for the Academy & the Public welcomed Edward Snowden via Google hangout during its “Freedom of Expression� conference.
In conjunction with OC Parks, Viet Stories: The Vietnamese American Oral History Project organized an 8-month-long exhibition that commemorated the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the influx of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants into the U.S. and Orange County.
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