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March 19, 2019 | ISSUE #11
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Photo by Jimmy Lai/CHASS Marketing & Communications
Kiril Tomoff is the Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities for CHASS.
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Music meets politics: In conversation with CHASS Associate Dean Kiril Tomoff
By Lilian Tran
Student Writer, CHASS Marketing & Communications
Music and politics were essential to Kiril Tomoff’s life long before he became Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities within CHASS. Growing up, he was an amateur horn player who loved both performing and listening to orchestral music. In college, Tomoff was fascinated by the Russian language and wanted to be involved in foreign policy.
During his time as an undergraduate, Tomoff studied abroad and went to numerous concerts in Leningrad, which was renamed St. Petersburg in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union. He encountered people from all walks of life and was amazed how accessible concerts, operas and symphonic music was to the entire population. He thought about the importance of music in Soviet culture and chose to focus on it as his dissertation, graduating in 2001 from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in Russian and Soviet History.
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Allison Hedge Coke was awarded the First Jade Nurtured SiHui Female International Poetry Award and the title of Excellent Foreign Poet.
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Distinguished Professor Hedge Coke receives prestigious Chinese poetry award
By Hannah Croft
Student Writer, CHASS Marketing & Communications
Imagine bustling streets full of people, colorful shops and the sights and sounds of an international city. Now imagine a quiet village and a peaceful garden, surrounded by beautiful greenery and welcoming locals. Imagine delicious food, glistening awards, and an abundance of talented poets from all over the world.
This is just a taste of what UCR’s distinguished creative writing professor Allison Hedge Coke experienced during her trip to China. She is the author of six poetry books and one memoir, as well as the editor of ten volumes of work.
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
Milagros Peña
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Make summer part of your plan for success
Spring quarter hasn't officially started, but it's never too soon to start thinking about summer.
UCR's Summer Sessions classes are an incredibly effective way to meet prerequisites, fulfill major requirements, start a minor, boost your GPA, and graduate on time or even before!
Classes are offered all summer at different session lengths, so you can take classes that fit your busy schedule. Hundreds of CHASS classes are offered, including sessions for Anthropology, Art, Dance, Economics, English, Ethnic Studies, History and more!
Enrollment begins April 1, and the first sessions start June 24. Financial aid is available to qualified students and the financial aid application is now available at summerfinancialaid.ucr.edu. All aid applications are due by May 1.
Schedule an appointment with your advisor to create your summer plan. You can also find more information about Summer Sessions, including important dates and deadlines, at summer.ucr.edu.
— Milagros Peña
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Photos by Jimmy Lai/CHASS Marketing & Communications
Students from a Dance studio lab course joined members of the LEIMAY Ensemble for a special outdoor performance near the ARTS building, Feb. 27. See more images >>
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CHASS alumna brings music history to life
Nwaka Onwusa has been listening to Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” a lot lately. In fact, she’s dubbed the song her “anthem” as she navigates two major life changes: a cross-country move and adjustment to her newest role, as director of curatorial affairs for the Cleveland-based Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Photo courtesy of Alejandra Dubcovsky
History Professor Alejandra Dubcovsky and her History 197 class took a field trip to the Huntington Library in Pasadena. Students received a special, behind-the-scenes look at primary materials, including a first-edition of General History of Pyrates (1724). The class enjoyed free admission to the Huntington's extensive grounds, exhibits and museums, part of the growing UCR-Huntington partnership.
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Campus to get its first major outdoor sculpture
UC Riverside’s first major outdoor sculpture will begin to take shape in the coming weeks with a project by San Diego-based artist Roy McMakin that planners say will serve as a gateway to the campus.
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UCR’s low-residency MFA celebrates 10 years
A ghost chimpanzee, space pirates, a cougar-stealing war veteran, and a brave Estonian matriarch. The start of a very odd guy-walks-into-a-bar joke? Nope. Those are just a few of the primary characters conjured by the fertile minds of the Masters of Fine Arts students at UC Riverside’s low-residency program.
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University of California undergrads won’t face a tuition hike in the fall
It will be the seventh time in the last 8 years that UC officials have kept tuition the flat for California residents amid rising costs and enrollment numbers across the UC system.
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'In the Sunshine of Neglect' reveals Inland Empire's many facets
The exhibition of 193 works by 54 artists, made from 1950 to the present, is a condensed portrait of a region that orients toward Los Angeles, but is on the periphery — both part and apart from its proximate metropolis.
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“Live-fire cooking is the original caveman type of cooking — it’s meat and fire."
Paul Richardson is our CHASS facilities director. But did you know Paul is also a barbecue master who has judged over 60 competitions around the country, owns 15 grills, and cooked with celebrity chef Guy Fieri?
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Professor Amir Zaki
Department of Art
Amir Zaki's California Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks, is a mesmerizing collection of photographs that features contributions from the skateboarding legend, Tony Hawk and Peter Zellner. Published by Merrell in London & New York, Zaki's book will debut September 2019.
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Professor Jade Sasser
Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ideas on Fire podcast and Grist Magazine speak with Jade Sasser, a gender and health studies scholar, about population control, reproductive rights, and climate change.
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Professor Richard Carpiano
Department of Sociology
Richard Carpiano, a medical sociologist who studies vaccine hesitancy, talks to the Los Angeles Times about parents who don’t cooperate with public health investigators.
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Professor Laila Lalami
Department of Creative Writing
Laila Lalami is one of six finalists for the 2019 Simpson Literary Prize, which honors mid-career fiction authors. Her new novel, “The Other Americans,” will be published later this month.
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Professor John Jennings
Department of Media and Cultural Studies
"Black Panther" and "Into The Spider-verse" brought comics about people of color to the big screen this year. John Jennings tells KVCR that this kind of attention is exciting, but it's also overdue.
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Art Documentary Film Series: AS IS by Nick Cave
March 21 | 6 pm
Palm Desert Center
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A Star is Born - Screening and Q&A Session
March 23 | 3pm & 7pm
UCR ARTS
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Film: Shoplifters
March 29 | 7 pm
UCR ARTS
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Wild & Scenic Film Festival
March 30 | 1 pm
Palm Desert Center, Auditorium
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UPCOMING EVENTS
March 29
Writing Cafe
12 pm | College Building South, 114
March 20
Whose Goat is this, Anyway?
7 pm | Studio Theatre, Arts 114
April 2
Are We Alone Lecture Series: VENUS
6 pm | Palm Desert Center, Auditorium
MORE UPCOMING EVENTS ››
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