Artists

Aieme Apilado

Andrea Bonilla

Vivian Chen

Lee Diaz

Rubi Gamez

Caro Gonzalez Ceja

Layna Lapikas

Allison Lee

George Liu

Jessica Jasmin Melendez Aceves

Odalis Mondragon

Stephany Morales

Saul Ortiz

Noelya Consuelo Patino

Katty María Ramos

Alex Ray

Guadalupe Rojas

Eric Romero

Edelein Zanthee Schwarzmann

Gabby Schubert

Gahel Solis-Arambula

Aizellah Sorra

Jerry Trujillo

Pat

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Office hours are an opportunity for our CHASS community to meet in a smaller setting with Dean Williams to ask questions, discuss ideas, and share perspectives and concerns.

To sign up for a 15-minute slot, please email summer.espinoza@ucr.edu.

Monday, April 27, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Monday, May 18, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tuesday, June 9, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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Themes include environmental policy, climate anxiety, pollution, and more!

Students may choose to enroll for 1-2 units course credit in SEHE190.

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Join us on May 20 from 11AM–4PM for a Grad Cap Decorating Event! 🎨💙💛
We’ll have decorating supplies available on a first come, first served basis — so come early and get creative before graduation!

📍Calling all UCR Highlanders
🗓 May 20 @ HUB 269
⏰ 11AM–4PM
🎓 Supplies provided while they last

In collaboration with CHASS F1RST, CHASS Advising, School of Business, Chicano Student Programs, The Academic Resource Center- Transfer Success Program, First-Gen Committee, and ASUCR Transfer Non-Traditional Committee.

Bring your ideas, your friends, and your Highlander spirit! 🐻💙 #UCRGrad #UCRHighlanders #GradCapDecorating #ClassOf2026

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We need your contact information to confirm your attendance and email you a reminder, along with the completed photo/video. If you are inviting other senior friends, make sure they register.

Who is invited?

Any UCR student (undergrads and grads) who is graduating with the Class of 2026 is invited to join us for a group photo/video captured by a drone.

What is this for?

This drone shot will be included in the Class of 2026 storytelling produced by UCR's University Relations and shared with the campus and beyond. This is our gift to the graduating class and will be a great way to document this milestone.

Where do we meet?

Meet at the large, metal "UCR Sign" near the Bell Tower. Please arrive promptly at 3pm and expect to stay for 15-30 minutes.

What do we bring/wear?

Come dressed in whatever you like, as long as it is school-appropriate. Caps, gowns, and regalia are welcome.

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Join the raffle to win a free book

Questions: Email jades@ucr.edu

Sponsored by the UCR Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies and the Center for Ideas and Society

RSVP: https://bit.ly/UCR_Baik

About the Book

In Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun, Crystal Mun-hye Baik offers an intimate cultural history of war, illness, banishment, and estrangement through the experiential lens of her family. Beginning with her father's death and mother's psychiatric hold in 2022, Baik situates her parents’ lives within the enmeshed narratives of Japanese colonialism, war, and transoceanic migration, examining Korean diasporic grief as a felt form of thinking and writing, rather than an object of study. In doing so, she reckons with diasporic genealogies of precarity that have configured the everyday lives of her parents and ancestral communities. Blending different genres from narrative prose to visual essay, epistles to ancestral mourning rites, Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun is a meditation on the personal and ethical entanglements scholars must confront when they are implicated in the histories of violence they study.

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Featured Presenter: Joshua K. Reason (they/them) is a transdisciplinary scholar-artist from the Bay Area. Their work details Black : Indigenous performing and visual arts in the Americas as rehearsals for freedom beyond the limitations of modernity. Through ethnography, performance studies, cultural studies, and geography, they write and create towards new grammars for sexuality, intimacy, desire, and erotics. Their work has been published in The Black Scholar, The Journal of American Culture, The Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and becoming undisciplined: a zine. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Black Queer and Trans Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University.

This event is sponsored by the Black Trans Ethical World(un)making Lab, the Department of Black Study, the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Center for Ideas and Society.

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Themes include environmental policy, climate anxiety, pollution, and more!

Students may choose to enroll for 1-2 units course credit in SEHE190.

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with:

Emmaia Gelman, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State (Founding Director, Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism)

discussants:

Desireé Melonas (Assistant Prof., UCR Depts of Black Study and Political Science)

Keith Miyake (Assistant Prof., UCR Dept of Ethnic Studies)

Emma Stapely (Associate Prof., UCR Dept of English)

Jaye Austin Williams (Associate Prof., UCR Dept of Black Study)

moderated by Dylan Rodríguez (Co-Director of Center for Ideas and Society, UCR Dept. of Black Study and Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies)

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While the ADL is often portrayed as a defender against antisemitism and racism, its history shows that it is better understood as a proponent of the racial state and US empire. From "correcting" the embarrassing racial difference of immigrant Jews to policing the leftist politics of Black, Arab, and Jewish groups, the ADL pursued a conservative version of civil rights paired with aggressive anti-communism. Even as it became an authority on white nationalism in the 1970s, the ADL joined with the emerging anti-left, anti-Arab, and pro-Western neoconservative movement.

In a groundbreaking study that Publishers Weekly describes as a "gutsy, razor-sharp demystification of a powerful organization," Emmaia Gelman exposes the ADL’s alliance with American white supremacy and western empire and its historic investment in Cold War anticommunism. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State presents the ADL's history through its conflicts with social justice movements, illuminating the ADL's outsize role in shaping the ideas about race and rights that have underwritten US empire.

Join us online at the Center for Ideas and Society and the Decolonizing Humanism(?) project for an unscripted conversation led by four UC Riverside faculty.

Sponsored by Decolonizing Humanism(?) Programming Stream at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society

Note: The views and opinions of authors published by UC Press are exclusively those of the individual authors and do not represent those of the University of California.

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Toni M. Kemehana Pasion

Dance Lecturer and Artistic Director

“Spring Forward: Stories Awakened” is a performance experience that invites the listener to a collective story-share. Inspired by the inter-generational story-telling and oral tradition, dance acts as a generational method of allegorical transmission. The embodied storytellers reflect and invite listeners to witness collective experiences as a part of today’s shared humanity. “Spring Forward: Stories Awakened” is an invitation to move and be moved.

Performance Dates:

Thursday, May 28, 2026

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Friday, May 29, 2026

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Location: ATHD 102

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Parking Information

Step 1: Click this link

Step 2: Enter your license plate in the “License Plate Number”

Step 3: If the plate is non-California, select the appropriate state for the plate.

Step 4: Press ‘Park’

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Event Schedule:

10:30 a.m.: Film Screening (88 mins)

12:00 p.m.: Moderated Conversation with Raed El Rafei and UCR Professors Christophe Katrib (Theatre, Film, and Digital Production) and Courtney R. Baker (Department of English) followed by a Q&A with the audience.

About the Film:

While living abroad, a filmmaker returns to his hometown of Tripoli, Lebanon, to confront a landscape that once rejected him as a queer child. Armed with a microphone and a patient lens, El Rafei traverses coffee shops, public squares, and hidden corners to ask inhabitants about their social beliefs and the embrace of new ideas. Through intimate conversations with marginalized individuals—including a communist activist and a queer music producer—this contemplative "urban symphony" paints a vivid portrait of a city caught between a deep economic crisis and the hopeful sparks of revolution.

About the Filmmaker:

Raed El Rafei is an independent filmmaker, film scholar, and multimedia journalist. For over fifteen years, he worked as a Middle East reporter for national and international publications and as a researcher, producer, and director of TV news reports and documentaries for channels like Al-Jazeera, CNN, and ARTE. Since 2011, he has been making independent hybrid films that screened at international film festivals and received several awards. His feature films include: 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) (2012) and Here I am ... Here you are (2016).

He is currently an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities, his new feature documentary, will have its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival, in November 2024.

Special Student Workshop:

From 3 - 5 p.m., Raed El Rafei will lead a two-hour workshop specifically for UCR students. The workshop will feature excerpts from his films, including an in-depth exploration of social justice movements in the 1970s and their lasting influence on contemporary politics in the region. Rafei will also discuss his more recent work, which focuses on queer subjectivities and identities from a non-Western perspective. In particular, he will examine his latest documentary, a poetic exploration of queerness in his hometown of Tripoli, through which he seeks to develop a new, non-Western-centric cinematic language for representing queerness. Drawing on his extensive professional experience, Rafei will engage students in discussions about the creative documentary process at every stage of production, highlighting both the challenges and the opportunities filmmakers encounter.

Students must register to attend. REGISTER HERE.

Sponsors:

Hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production.

Co-Sponsors:

This event is made possible through the generous support of:

Middle Eastern Student Center (MESC)

LGBT Resource Center

Department of English

Media and Cultural Studies (MCS)

Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS)

UCR ARTS

Center for Ideas and Society (CIS)

Political Science

Comparative Literature & Languages

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From 3 - 5 p.m., Raed El Rafei will lead a two-hour workshop specifically for UCR students. The workshop will feature excerpts from his films, including an in-depth exploration of social justice movements in the 1970s and their lasting influence on contemporary politics in the region. Rafei will also discuss his more recent work, which focuses on queer subjectivities and identities from a non-Western perspective. In particular, he will examine his latest documentary, a poetic exploration of queerness in his hometown of Tripoli, through which he seeks to develop a new, non-Western-centric cinematic language for representing queerness. Drawing on his extensive professional experience, Rafei will engage students in discussions about the creative documentary process at every stage of production, highlighting both the challenges and the opportunities filmmakers encounter.

Students must register to attend. REGISTER HERE.

About the Filmmaker:

Raed El Rafei is an independent filmmaker, film scholar, and multimedia journalist. For over fifteen years, he worked as a Middle East reporter for national and international publications and as a researcher, producer, and director of TV news reports and documentaries for channels like Al-Jazeera, CNN, and ARTE. Since 2011, he has been making independent hybrid films that screened at international film festivals and received several awards. His feature films include: 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) (2012) and Here I am ... Here you are (2016).

He is currently an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities, his new feature documentary, will have its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival, in November 2024.

Film Screening & Conversation:

Also on this date, join the UC Riverside community for a special screening of the award-winning documentary TRIPOLI / A TALE OF THREE CITIES, followed by an intimate conversation and Q&A with director Raed El Rafei.

Event Schedule:

10:30 a.m.: Film Screening (88 mins)

12:00 p.m.: Moderated Conversation with Raed El Rafei and UCR Professors Christophe Katrib (Theatre, Film, and Digital Production) and Courtney R. Baker (Department of English) followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Sponsors:

Hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production.

Co-Sponsors:

This event is made possible through the generous support of:

Middle Eastern Student Center (MESC)

LGBT Resource Center

Department of English

Media and Cultural Studies (MCS)

Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS)

UCR ARTS

Center for Ideas and Society (CIS)

Political Science

Comparative Literature & Languages

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Toni M. Kemehana Pasion

Dance Lecturer and Artistic Director

“Spring Forward: Stories Awakened” is a performance experience that invites the listener to a collective story-share. Inspired by the inter-generational story-telling and oral tradition, dance acts as a generational method of allegorical transmission. The embodied storytellers reflect and invite listeners to witness collective experiences as a part of today’s shared humanity. “Spring Forward: Stories Awakened” is an invitation to move and be moved.

Performance Dates:

Thursday, May 28, 2026

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Friday, May 29, 2026

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Location: ATHD 102

RSVP HERE

Parking Information

Step 1: Click this link

Step 2: Enter your license plate in the “License Plate Number”

Step 3: If the plate is non-California, select the appropriate state for the plate.

Step 4: Press ‘Park’

Download the poster

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Themes include environmental policy, climate anxiety, pollution, and more!

Students may choose to enroll for 1-2 units course credit in SEHE190.

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9:00 AM Ceremony: 4 additional tickets1:30 PM Ceremony: 2 additional ticketsAdditional tickets will be distributed - WHILE SUPPLIES LAST

Photo (c) UCR CHASS by Carrie Rosema

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9:00 AM Ceremony: 4 additional tickets1:30 PM Ceremony: 2 additional ticketsAdditional tickets will be distributed - WHILE SUPPLIES LAST

Photo (c) UCR CHASS by Carrie Rosema

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9:00 AM Ceremony: 4 additional tickets1:30 PM Ceremony: 2 additional ticketsAdditional tickets will be distributed - WHILE SUPPLIES LAST

Photo (c) UCR CHASS by Carrie Rosema

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Office hours are an opportunity for our CHASS community to meet in a smaller setting with Dean Williams to ask questions, discuss ideas, and share perspectives and concerns.

To sign up for a 15-minute slot, please email summer.espinoza@ucr.edu.

Monday, April 27, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Monday, May 18, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tuesday, June 9, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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This event will take place in-person in INTS 1113 on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM. The extended timeframe allows space for program updates, networking, discussion, and community-building with UCR campus partners. Snacks will be provided for attendees.

An agenda and supporting materials will be provided to participants to encourage ongoing collaboration and shared knowledge.

Thank you, and we look forward to connecting with our campus partner community.If you have any question, please email Chass1st@ucr.edu

Warm regards,

The CHASS F1RST Team

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