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The Protective Effects of a Healthy Spouse: Medicare as the Family Member of Last Resort

  • January 15, 2026
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
  • Tim Layton, University of Virginia

Neoliberal Folkdevils: Punitive Populism, MS-13, and Racial Capitalism

  • January 15, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Steven Osuna, Sociology, CSU Long Beach

Darwin's Reasoning about Common Ancestry

  • January 16, 2026
  • 3:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
  • Elliott Sober, Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University

Movement Resiliency: Accountability-seeking Diaspora Actors and their Responses to Transnational Repression

  • January 20, 2026
  • 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Abhimanyu Rajshekar, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine

Are Guidelines Worth Following?

  • January 20, 2026
  • 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218
  • David Chan, UC Berkeley

Social Relevance Shapes Early Cognition

  • January 21, 2026
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
  • Brandon Woo, Ph.D., Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara

Global Security and the Rise of Minilaterals in the Asia-Pacific

  • January 22, 2026
  • 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  • Social Science Tower, Room 777
  • Aiden Warren, Professor of International Relations, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia

From Priceless... To Overinvested

  • January 22, 2026
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Zoom (pre-registration required)
  • Nina Bandelj, Author and Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine

Queer Throughlines: Korean/American Activist Spaces of Kinship

  • January 22, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 5:40pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Ju Hui Judy Han, Gender Studies, UCLA

Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest

  • January 22, 2026
  • 5:40pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Jennifer Jihye Chun, Asian American Studies and Labor Studies, UCLA

Build Your Professional Presence

  • January 26, 2026
  • 11:00am - 11:50am
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
  • SSARC Team

Writing the Perfect Cover Letter

  • January 27, 2026
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

Is the Pandemic to Blame for the Null Results in Baby's First Years?

  • January 29, 2026
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
  • Greg Duncan, Distinguished Professor, School of Education, UC Irvine

Thanks for Coming, Now Give the Land Back: Indigenous Ecofeminism and Remaking Worlds

  • January 29, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Cutcha Risling Baldy, Native American Studies, CalPoly Humboldt

Causal Decision Theory for Unratifiable Actions

  • January 30, 2026
  • 3:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
  • James Joyce, C.H. Langford Collegiate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

SSARC Ambassadors Info Session

  • February 2, 2026
  • 11:30am - 12:20pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1230
  • SSARC Team

Handmade With Love: A SSARC Valentine's Craft Social

  • February 5, 2026
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

Planting Oceania: Pacific Islander Dreaming & Resistance

  • February 5, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz | Loa Niumeitolu, Planting Oceania

UCI Lunar New Year Celebration

  • February 9, 2026
  • 1:30pm - 6:00pm
  • The Irvine Barclay Plaza and Theatre

Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity

  • February 9, 2026
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132
  • Nicolás de Roux, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia

  • February 11, 2026
  • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
  • Gabriela Morales, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College

How Do Habits Form? Experimental Evidence from Health Screenings

  • February 12, 2026
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
  • Damon Jones, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

The Militarization of Aid: Famine, Food, Freedom, & the Struggle to Survive

  • February 12, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Anthony Aguilar, Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel

Summer Program in Research and Leadership (SPIRL) Info Session

  • February 17, 2026
  • 11:30am - 12:20pm
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  • SSARC Team

"Feeling Brown", Sounding Yellow: Puerto Rican Soldiers and the Racial Calculus of the Korean War

  • February 19, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Junyoung Verónica Kim, East Asian Cultures in Liberal Studies, NYU

Skepticism and Politicization of Science: Causes, Consequences, and Cures

  • February 20, 2026
  • 12:00pm - 1:15pm
  • Zoom (pre-registration required)
  • Roderik Rekker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Radboud University, The Netherlands

Bagels and Coffee with Faculty

  • February 23, 2026
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

UCI Law School Panel

  • February 25, 2026
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

In memoriam: W.C. Watt

  • February 25, 2026
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

Traditional Maritime & Chumash Tomol (Canoe) Building

  • February 26, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Alan Salazar, Chumash Maritime Association and Ventura County Indian Education Consortium

Finals Study Session

  • March 2, 2026
  • 2:30pm - 4:00pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

The First Numbers of the Americas

  • March 2, 2026
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132
  • Espin-Sanchez, Jose-Antonio, Yale University

From Cradle to Grave: Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Dynamics of Health

  • March 5, 2026
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222
  • Bhash Mazumder, Professor of Economics, UC Irvine

Atomic Violence Through Place and Space

  • March 5, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Lovely Umayam, United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA); Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective

Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom

  • March 12, 2026
  • 12:30pm - 1:30pm
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
  • Barbara Biasi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management and Faculty Research Fellow, NBER

Seeing Human Rights in an Age of AI

  • March 12, 2026
  • 5:00pm - 6:20pm
  • Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100
  • Sandra Ristovska, Media Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

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