Chancellor Howard Gillman will open with a welcome and remarks. Next, a panel moderated by Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Willie Banks includes: Jun Jang, president, Associated Students for UCI Tiffany López, dean, Claire Trevor School of the Arts Megan Enciso, director of student affairs, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing The event will…

PEN America and UC Irvine are teaming up to co-host the first-ever Free Expression Student Summit in Irvine this fall. Our half-day program will include workshops led by UCI faculty on a variety of topics related to free expression including international human rights, book bans and educational gag orders, news media literacy, and protest rights…

Join the Long US-China Institute to hear journalist Ian Johnson discuss his most recent book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future. Sparks describes how some of China’s best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed…