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CHANCELLOR'S DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS SERIES CONTINUES AT UCI

Diverse Series of Free Public Presentations Includes Performance by Asian American Orchestra

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 16, 2002 -- UC Irvine's third annual Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series continues with free public presentations by leading authorities on "cyberlaw," the working poor, the American presidency and a concert by the Grammy Award-nominated Asian American Orchestra.

The 2002 program brings a variety of scholars, experts and professionals to UCI for short-term visits where they will teach seminars and master classes and participate in workshops and discussions with students and faculty. The following internationally renowned fellows have been selected for their contributions in disciplines that address the challenges of an increasingly interdependent world.

• Persi Diaconis, "Coincidence," 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100.

Diaconis, the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University, is one of the world's leading Bayesian statisticians. Bayesian statistics, a mathematical theory that involves conditional probabilities, uses the knowledge of prior events to predict future events.


• Theodore J. Lowi, "The Second Republic of the United States--Or Is It the Third, or the Fourth?" 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, Crystal Cove Auditorium, Student Center.

Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University, is a highly acclaimed political scientist and an expert on the American presidency. He has written numerous books, including "The End of Liberalism," "Democrats Return to Power: Politics and Policy in the Clinton Era" and "The Pursuit of Justice," which he co-authored with Robert F. Kennedy.


• Katherine S. Newman, "High Stakes: Time Poverty, Testing and the Children of the Working Poor," 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112.

Newman is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Urban Studies at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and dean of social science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She wrote the 1999 award-winning book "No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City," which focuses on job search strategies, work experiences and families of African Americans and Latinos in Harlem.


• Georgio Agamben, "Community, Identity, Trauma," noon Monday, April 8, Humanities Research Institute, Administration Building, Room 338.

Agamben, professor of aesthetics at the University of Verona, Italy, is an internationally known scholar of humanistic inquiry and critical theory. Agamben's book on Nazi death camps, "Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive," examines the testimony of camp survivors and addresses the fragility of identity under extreme conditions.


• Asian American Orchestra, concert, 8 p.m. Thursday, April 11, Winifred Smith Hall; workshop with Jodaiko (UCI's Taiko Ensemble), 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, Winifred Smith Hall.

This Grammy Award-nominated ensemble of eight multi-instrumentalists is steeped in jazz traditions and time-honored and contemporary sounds of Asia, Africa and Europe. The group uses music to increase public awareness of the struggles of Asians, African Americans and Native Americans.


• Cleo Parker Robinson, "The Healing Power of the Arts," noon Wednesday, April 24, Winifred Smith Hall.

Robinson, founder and artistic director of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble in Denver, is known for her work as choreographer, stage director, educator, community leader and innovator of social programs, including Denver's youth outreach program, Project Self-Discovery. Established in 1970 on the belief that art transcends the boundaries of culture, class and age, the project is committed to bringing dance to the lives of culturally diverse people.


• Pamela Samuelson, "Intellectual Property and the Public Interest," 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, Monarch Bay B, Student Center.

Samuelson, professor of law and information management and director of UC Berkeley's Center for Law and Technology, is an expert in areas where technology intersects law and public policy. She has done significant work in "cyberlaw," with particular emphasis on challenges that new technologies pose for intellectual property, copyright and privacy, particularly in the entertainment industry.


• John Monahan, "Violence and Mental Disorder: The Science and Policy of Risk Assessment," 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, Crystal Cove Auditorium, Student Center.

Monahan, the Henry and Grace Doherty Professor of Law and the Horace Goldsmith Research Professor at the University of Virginia, has twice earned the American Psychiatric Association's Manfred Guttmacher Award for his work on the clinical prediction of violent behavior. In 1988, Monahan led an effort to construct guidelines that assist judges in determining a defendant's competency to stand trial. The results of that research set new legal standards for determining variables predictive of violence from discharged mental patients.

For more information on the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series, please call (949) 824-7372 or see www.evc.uci.edu/CDFS/index.html.

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