What We Are Doing
UC Irvine actively engages the community to foster a civil dialogue on campus. The exercise and protection of freedom of speech and expression are at the core of the University’s mission of teaching, research, and public service. Equally so is our commitment to modeling respectful dialogue. The following activities are samples of our ongoing efforts to address free speech, academic freedom, and civility in a multitude of venues including programs, meetings, social gatherings, and public statements.
- 24th Annual MLK, Jr. Symposium Keynote/Dr. Joseph L. White Lecture: Julian Bond, President, NAACP: Crossing the Color Line.
- Exhibit: From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit.
- Robert Audi, Professor of Philosophy and David E. Gallo Chair in Ethics. Role of Religious Considerations in Public Discourse of Pluralistic Democracies.
- Spiritual and Religious Alliance for Hope (SARAH) panel presentation.
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Global Conversations: A Festival of Marginalized Languages Conference. An opportunity to reflect on how we can encourage conversation among and between languages in scholarship, activism, literature, teaching and performance.
- UC Irvine-Israeli Engineering Exchange Program. Agreement with Israel Institute of Technology & Tel Aviv University.
- Abraham’s Vision is a conflict transformation organization that explores group and individual identities through experiential and political education. Abraham’s Vision will work on the UCI campus in 2007-08.
- A Maccabiah for the Mind Symposium: Sports, Ethnicity, Gender and the Struggle for Human Rights
- Second Summer Multicultural Leadership Institute: A residential program to provide personalized training for first year students on issues of diversity, conflict management and social justice.
- Presentation of inaugural UC Irvine Ethics Fellowship awards.
- Vice Chancellor’s panel on Difficult Dialogues at the UCI Executive Roundtable Annual Retreat. The Role of Freedom of Speech: Courses and Conversations that Encourage Respect on Campus.
- Stand Together
for Tolerance. UC Irvine Academic Senate event.
- President James Earl Carter Remarks on the Middle East, Israel and Palestine.
- Cultures of Violence: Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
- One Voice: A non-partisan movement of moderate Israelis and Paletinians. Public presentation by the founder and Israeli and Palestinian students about their program to create a public voice for politically moderate citizens in the Middle East.
- Lily Gardner Feldman: From Enmity to Unity: The Principle of Reconciliation in International Relations and its Practice in German Foreign Policy.
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Judaism But Were Afraid to Ask: featured panel: Rabbi Dov Fischer, Beth Jacob Congregation Irvine; Rabbi Dennis Linson, Temple Judea Laguna Hills; Rabbi Peter Levi, Temple Beth El Aliso Viejo. Sponsored by the Cross-Cultural Center.
- Program in Jewish Studies: Susan Derwin, Primo Levi and the Limits of Testimony.
- UCI Ethics Fellow
- Publication of Impressions/Expressions, Vol. 4: Difficult Dialogues.
- The Middle East in 2007: Same Old Story or a New Beginning? A panel featuring UCI Professors discussing the events of the last year in the Middle East and larger Muslim world, and likely developments in the coming year. Panelists include: Nasrin Rahimieh, Director of the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UCI; Lina Kreidie, Dept. of Political Science, UCI; Mark LeVine, Prof. of Modern Middle Eastern History, UCI; and moderator, Jon Elliott, Air America Radio host. Co-sponsors include: Middle East Studies Student Initiative, Dept. of History, and Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies.
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Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow David Hamburg: Never Again: Practical Steps Toward the Prevention of Genocide.
- Irvine Lecture in Critical Theory, Eyal Weizman: Lethal Theory.
- Religious Diversity: An Interfaith Dialogue. This panel features two religious leaders – a Muslim and a Jew – who will critically engage the audience in an open dialogue about their faith in relation to our society. The panelists will be Sadullah Khan, Executive Director of Religious Affairs at the Islamic Center of Irvine and Rabbi Richard Steinberg, Congregation Shir Ha-Ma'alot. Sponsored by Difficult Dialogues, Hillel: The Jewish Student Union, Muslim Student Union, Vice Chancellor Student Affairs, American Indian Student Union, Rainbow Festival.
- Marcos Aguinis: The Presence of Jews in Latin America: Then and Now.
- Political Upheaval Abroad, Free Speech at Home: The Domestic Implications of International Crisis, presented by Vice Chancellor Manuel Gómez. Sponsored by International Studies Program and Difficult Dialogues Project.
- 23rd All-University Leadership Conference. Student leaders gather to discuss campus issues and plan for the coming year. Key university administrators attend to discuss UC Values. UC Values poster campaign unveiled. Contest announced to student groups. They can win their own club poster by sharing how their group promotes one or more UC values.
- New Student Convocation official launch of the student focus of the Irvine campus UC Values campaign. Speakers including UCI Chancellor Drake discuss values.
- UCI launches inaugural Summer Multicultural Leadership Institute: A residential program to provide personalized training fro first year students on issues of diversity, conflict management, and social justice. UC Ethical Values are a part of the program for 60 new incoming student leaders.
- Student Affairs summer orientation programs includes workshop on UC Ethical Values: On Civility, Character, Citizenship, Decision Making and other Good Stuff! This is presented to the new and transfers students and parents at the summer orientation program.
- Langson Library Exhibit: The War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America.
- Deputy Prime Minister, Abkhazia and Liana Kvarchelia, Deputy Director of the Center for Humanitarian Programs: The Abkhaz-Georgian Dialogue, a discussion of Difficult Dialogues in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict.
- Gabriele Schwab, Ph.D. for Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Langson Library Exhibit opening speaker: Dissent and Dialogue in a World at War.
- Round Table Discussion on New Directions in Jewish Studies.
- Associated Students of University of California, Irvine pass legislation that “supports and embraces with warm hearts and open minds the Statement of Ethical Values adopted by the Regents of the University of California” and “encourages integrity, excellence, accountability and respect.”
- Yossi Olmert, Ph.D. Israel: A Discussion of Recent Events.
- Welleck Library Lecture Talal Asad: Thinking About Suicide Bombing: Terrorism; Suicide Terrorism; Horror and Suicide Terrorism.
- Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow William Julius Wilson: The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality & Coalition Politics Re-Examined.
May 7, 2006
- The Cordoba Initiative Jerusalem Dialogues: Why Israel? Why Palestine? Conference.
- Inside, Behind the Scenes from Yossi Olmert Lecture.
- Chancellor Drake sends messages to the campus on civility.
- Vice Chancellor Gómez’s message to the campus on free speech.
- As'ad AbuKhalil, Ph.D.: The Islam Factor in Western Popular Cultures: Beyond the Danish Cartoons.
- Ishmael Khaldi Lecture.
- Daniel Bar-Tal, Ph.D.: The Pycological Earthquake in 2000: Understanding the Present Impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
- Catarina Kinvall, Ph.D.: The Moeal Treatment of Others: Addressing the Ethics of Difference.
- Joe Carens: Immigrants – How They are Integrated Into American Society.
- Edward Kaufman, Ph. D. and Emmannuel Hassassian: The Role of Israeli & Palestinian Civil Soceity in Peace Building. Public lecture.
- Elias Khoury, presentation by the author of Gate of the Sun.
- Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow Mary Frances Berry: Civil Rights in the U.S.: Past, Present and Future?
- Artists for Peace Week: Performance by the Pakistani rock band ‘Junoon.’
- An Ethiopian Jew, music and stories shared by musician Alula Tzadik.
- Latinos and Jews: A Conference on Historical and Contemporary Connections.
- Chancellor Drake sends message to the campus on UCI values.
- New course: History 183: Special Studies in International History. Imagining the Future: Israelis and Palestinians in the 21st Century.
- 22nd All-University Leadership Conference. Student leaders gather to discuss campus issues and plan for the coming year. Key university administrators attend to discuss issues and promote free speech and civility.
- Vice Chancellor Manuel Gómez commentary on civility and free speech published in the New University newspaper.
- “One Small Step Forward” Palestinian-Israeli dialogue initiatives featuring Richard Harris.
- UC Irvine sponsored The Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Muslim-Jewish Understanding, a presentation featuring Professor Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and Professor of International Relations at American University, and Professor Judea Pearl, Director of UCLA’s Cognitive Systems Laboratory and father of the slain journalist. A whole day devoted to activities and dialogue promoting Jewish Muslim understanding.
- Office of the Dean of Students hosts Gender and Cultural Differences in Response to Terrorism presentation.
- Cross-Cultural Center sponsors Addressing Hate in Our Community.
- Student Alliance of Dialogue and Understanding holds first meeting.
- $30 Million gift from Paul Merage for the Paul Merage School of Business.
- Cross-Cultural Center hosts The Differences Between Us.
- Vice Chancellor Manual Gómez’s article on free speech published in the New University newspaper.
- "A Case Study-University of Haifa" presented by Ron Robin, Dean of Students at University of Haifa.
- 11th Annual Religious Diiversity Forum – Conflict Resolution: The Role of Religion and Sprituality.
- A Closer Look at Hate, sponsored by the Cross-Cultural Center and Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity.
- Five part series, Jews/Muslims/Christians In Dialogue, presented as part of the UCI Community Forum.
- 21st All-University Leadership Conference. Student leaders gather to discuss campus issues and plan for the coming year. Key university administrators attend to discuss issues and promote free speech and civility. When Cultures Clash: What Do You See? Rusty Kennedy, Executive Director Orange County Human Relations Commission, moderates the "super" session.
- Vice Chancellor Gómez’s letter regarding free speech published in the New University newspaper.
- Conflict Prevention student organization established.
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