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The New Language of Politics: Populism, Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Beyond

  • October 31, 2025
  • 8:00am - 12:00pm
  • Zoom (pre-registration required)

Fall Instruction Begins

  • September 25, 2025
  • 8:00am - 10:00pm
  • UCI

UCI Graduate Hooding Ceremony

  • June 16, 2025
  • 5:30pm - 7:30pm
  • Bren Events Center

UCI Social Sciences Commencement Ceremony 2

  • June 13, 2025
  • 12:45pm - 2:45pm
  • Bren Events Center

UCI Social Sciences Commencement Ceremony 1

  • June 13, 2025
  • 8:30am - 11:00am
  • Bren Events Center

Out and Down: The Reputational Damage of Exiting International Organizations

  • June 5, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 1:45pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Felicity Vabulas, Blanche E. Seaver Associate Professor of International Studies, Pepperdine University; Discussant: Heidi Hardt, Political Science, UCI

Are Democracies Better at Solving Problems than Non-Democratic Regimes?

  • May 15, 2025
  • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
  • Bryan Jones, Professor J.J. "Jake" Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies, University of Texas, Austin

Prayer Camps in Extractivist Politics: More-than-Human Mediation in Worlds and World-Building

  • May 6, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Elane Westfaul, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine

Trump's First 100 Days

  • April 30, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
  • UC Irvine political scientists Matthew Beckmann, Jordie Davies, Michael Tesler, and Danielle Thomsen

The Persistence of Memory: Trauma and Legacies of Conflict in the Rise of Ethno-Nationalism

  • April 22, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Kiyaan Parikh, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine

Resistance in Tough Times: A Historical Perspective

  • April 18, 2025
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
  • Adam Hochschild, Lecturer in Journalism, UC Berkeley

You Cannot Measure Healing: Institutional Pathways to Resilience | Sports Engineering: A Case of Soft-Power, Bio-Politics and Developmentality in Kashmir

  • April 8, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Nahreen Aref, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine and Syed Mir Waleed, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine

The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization

  • March 12, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1511
  • Kevin Pham, University of Amsterdam

Gods, Kings, and Missionaries: Legacies of Ancient States and Christian Missionaries on Religion in Africa

  • March 10, 2025
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132
  • Constantine Manda, UC Irvine

Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship in China

  • March 7, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
  • Samantha Vortherms, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine Department of Political Science with comments by Sara Goodman, Professor and Chair, UC Irvine Department of Political Science

Pop-Up Panel: Trump's Foreign Policy

  • February 24, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

Interviews as Method for Engaging Criminalized and Surveilled Communities: Reflections from Fieldwork with Sex Worker Organizers

  • February 18, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Alisson Rowland, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine

More People, Fewer States

  • February 12, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
  • Rein Taagepera, UC Irvine

The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future

  • February 6, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 1:45pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Jeffrey Kopstein, Dean's Professor of Political Science, UCI

Pop-Up Panel: Birthright Citizenship

  • February 3, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
  • Louis DeSipio, Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and Political Science, UCI, and Stephen Lee, Professor of Law, UCI | moderated by Claire Kim, Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, UCI

Authoritarianism, Threat, and Illiberal Political Judgments

  • January 31, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 1:15pm
  • Zoom (pre-registration required)
  • Phillip T. Dunwoody, Professor of Psychology, Juniata College

The Reproductive Rights Effect: How Reproductive Policy Affects Women's Political Representation in Two Cases

  • January 28, 2025
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Sarah Burke, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine

To Promote an Injustice Which Was No Part of Their Intention

  • January 22, 2025
  • 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
  • Jacob Levy, McGill

UCI Commencement

  • December 16, 2024
  • 10:00am - 12:30pm
  • Bren Events Center

Beyond FIFA, Beyond Sport?: The Politics of Unrecognized Groups in Global Football

  • November 19, 2024
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Amy Gilmore, Department of Political Science, UCI

From the Reagan Revolution to the Trump Insurrection: The Role of the Religious Imaginary in American Politics

  • November 7, 2024
  • 5:00pm - 6:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
  • Diane Winston, USC

The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The Polls, Prospects for Another Unprecedented Presidency, and Rise of Gen Z and Alpha

  • October 30, 2024
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm
  • In-Person and Zoom

Kuwait Before Oil

  • October 9, 2024
  • 3:30pm - 4:30pm
  • Zoom
  • Majed Al-Mudhayan, Graduate Student, Political Science, UC Irinve

The Transformations of Refugee Protection through Urban Refugee Self-Reliance in the Global South

  • October 8, 2024
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Udita Ghosh, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine

New Graduate Student Welcome

  • September 23, 2024
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

Undergraduate Welcome BBQ

  • September 23, 2024
  • 10:30am - 12:30pm
  • Social Science Upper Plaza

UCI Graduate Hooding Ceremony

  • June 15, 2024
  • 5:30pm - 7:30pm
  • UCI Bren Events Center

Social Sciences Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony 2

  • June 14, 2024
  • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
  • UCI Bren Events Center

Social Sciences Undergraduate and Master's Commencement Ceremony 1

  • June 14, 2024
  • 12:45pm - 3:00pm
  • UCI Bren Events Center

Antisemitism at the University of California: A New Survey

  • May 30, 2024
  • 5:00pm - 6:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
  • Jeffrey Kopstein and Ana Schugurensky, UCI

Manuscript Workshop

  • May 29, 2024
  • 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 318

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 2024? How Partisan Identity Politics is Taking Over America

  • May 3, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 1:15pm
  • Online Webinar (pre-registration required)
  • arren Schreiber, Ph.D., JD, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter

Human Rights, Ethics and the Importance of Evidence-Based Research

  • March 21, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Zoom (pre-registration required)
  • Kristen Renwick Monroe, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Ethics Center Founding Director | Mneesha Gellman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College

UCI Homecoming

  • March 2, 2024
  • 2:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Aldrich Park and the Bren Events Center

Gendering the Merchant Economy

  • February 5, 2024
  • 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
  • Aida Hozic, University of Florida

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