Authors & Artists Series
2025-2026
When Taiwanese Funeral Rituals Meet Musical Theatre: A Presentation on Don't Cry, Dancing Girls
Michelle Coltrane: Oral History and Legacy of Alice and John Coltrane
100 Years of Music, Wisdom, and Community Centennial Celebration of Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Jeremy Tiang, Obie Award Playwright Traversing Languages: Multilingual Writing, Performance, and Translation
Industrial Cultures: Cinema and Labor in China's Modernization
Lin Manuel Miranda and Hamilton: A Book Talk by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Tianlong Jiao: Exploring the Wonders of the Terracotta Warriors
2024-2025
A Conversation With Kim Stanley Robinson
A Conversation With Playwright Keiko Green
Translating Taboos: From Text to Film
Queering Asian Americans: On Stage and On Screen
Interculturaling Shakespeare with Jingju
Jingju Makeup & Costume Workshop
Yayachkani: A Conversation with Miguel Rubio about Peruvian Theatre
2023-2024
- Joshua Cohen | Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
- Charles Yu | Award Winning Author
- Luis Rodriguez | Award Winning Author
- Sanaz Toossi | Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright
- Jennifer Clement | The Novel and Social Change
- Wei Hai Min and Her Personae
- An Evening with Author Rabih Alameddine
- Samuel Ting, Nobel Laureate of Physics – An Asian / American Journey
- Iranian American Theatre: Michael Shayan
- Latinx Theatre: Past, Present, Future
- Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
- Rachel Kushner, Award-Winning Author | A Reading and Conversation
- Bread and Puppet Theater: "Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Apocalypse Defiance"
- A Dream Talk | Peter Sellars, Theatre Director and Distinguished Professor, UCLA
- Yalda: An Iranian Twelfth Night
- Wang Chong: Theatre-Making in China in the Age of COVID-19
- Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States
- Computational Poetics: Language and Technology
- Musical Map of China featuring Ye Yunchuan, Founder of Rhymoi Music
- Sixth Annual Poetry Symposium: Healing & Hope Through Diverse Journeys
- Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Tracy K. Smith, former Poet Laureate of the United States
- Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States
- The Intersection: Woke Black Folk
- Terrance Hayes: A Reading and Conversation
- Award-Winning Author Tiphanie Yanique, "Monster in the Middle" in conversation with Felix Jean-Louis (UCI History)
- Centennial: 100 Years of Charles Mingus
- Juli Delgado Lopera, author, - Fiebre Tropical
- Pulitzer-Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Buddhism and Science
- Sandra Cisneros, Award-winning author of "House on Mango Street"
- Dr. Reuben Miller, author, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
- A Reading and Conversation with Writer and Urbanist Nadia Owusu
- Jos Charles poet
- Patience Agbabi poet and performer
- The Shakespeare Trial with L. Song Richardson (UCI Law) and Erwin Chemerinksy (Berkeley Law)
- David Henry Hwang playwright
- Rafael Campo, Poetry of Hope and Healing physician and poet
- Tang Shu-Wing theater director, Hong Kong
- Letters from Home multi-media performance & memoir
- Helen Zia author of “Last Boat from Shanghai”
- Bruce Sterling futurist and science fiction writer
- Clarinda Jackson Mac Low, “The Pronouns”
- Simon Majumdar, “Fed, White and Blue: Finding America with My Fork”
- Min Jin Lee, “Pachinko”
- Sarah Stillman, Staff writer for “The New Yorker”
- Bill McKibben, “The End of Nature”
- Kevin Young, “Brown: Poems”
- Natasha Treheway, Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, “Native Guard”
- Grace Talusan, “The Body Papers”
- Jennine Capo Crucet, “Make Your Home Among Strangers”
- Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, "Underground Railroad"
- Ted Chiang, "Arrival"
- Jill Lepore, "The American Experience - A Lab Report"
- Alice Sebold '98, "The Lovely Bones", "Lucky"
- Angie Thomas, "The Hate U Give"