UC Riverside Presents

A lecture series dedicated to sharing the stories of unique individuals to the Riverside community. Free to all.

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RIVERSIDE: Journalist recounts 140 days as a North Korean prisoner

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Our speaker tonight was featured in an article by the Press Enterprise. Come hear Laura Ling speak of her life-changing experience tonight at 7pm in the University Theatre. Open to the public!

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Laverne Cox came to speak at UC Riverside tonight! We cannot thank her enough for sharing her story and advice with all of us. #AintSheAWoman

Along with the UCR shirt and the BlaqOUT shirt, Laverne received one of our (Gamma Rho Lambda Mu Chapter’s) Trans Awareness T-shirts! If you want to buy one, be sure to message us!

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What a great show we had last night!

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lavernecox will be speaking tonight at 7pm in the University Theatre.

Free to attend plus free parking in Lot 6. Space is limited so be sure to arrive early and snag a good seat!

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On Thursday, May 15, E! Network personality Laura Ling will share her story of being held captive in a North Korean prison for almost 5 months. 

Presented in Partnership with Asian Pacific Student Programs.

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On May 13rd at 6:30pm, Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation comes to UCR! Featuring short animated films in celebration of Craig "Spike" Decker's gift to UCR of hundreds of 35mm films that appeared in Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation over the years.

The show will conclude with a Q&A session with Spike, moderated by Derek Burrill, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies. 

Free to attend. Free parking in Lot 6. All are welcome.

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UC Riverside Presents' next speaker will be lavernecox of Netflix's critically-acclaimed program, Orange is the New Black. Come see her on May 7th!

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Come out TODAY at 7:30pm! Free for UCR students and $5/general.

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You may recognize his voice, but tonight is your chance to see him in person! Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money will be speaking in just a few hours!

University Theatre @ 7pm

Free admission and free parking in Lot 6.

Everyone is welcome!

"When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree." - Adam Davidson

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Come check out Planet Money's Adam Davidson this Thursday!

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We have some awesome speakers visiting UCR this quarter. 

Free to attend and free parking.

This is just too good to pass up!

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Spring 2014 Lecture Series

UC Riverside Presents will offer four lectures throughout Spring Quarter 2014. Stay tuned for more information!

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Dr. Temple Grandin to Visit UC Riverside

The country’s leading animal behaviorist and autism expert, Dr. Temple Grandin will speak at the University of California, Riverside on Tuesday, May 21, at 7 p.m. in Highlander Union Building, Room 302. She will be introduced by Dr. Jan Blacher, Distinguished Professor and Director of SEARCH, the University of California’s first family autism resource center housed in the Graduate School of Education.  

This event is free and open to the public.  No tickets will be issued so arriving early is strongly recommended. Doors will open at 6pm. Parking for non-UC permit holders costs $5 in Lot 1.  

Dr. Temple Grandin was born in Boston, Massachusetts.  Temple’s achievements are remarkable because she was an autistic child.  At age two she had no speech and all the signs of severe autism. Fortunately, her mother defied the advice of the doctors and kept her out of an institution.  Many hours of speech therapy, and intensive teaching enabled Temple to learn speech.  As a teenager, life was hard with constant teasing.  Mentoring by her high school science teacher and her aunt on her ranch in Arizona motivated Temple to study and pursue a career as a scientist and livestock equipment designer.

Dr. Temple Grandin obtained her B.A. at Franklin Pierce College in 1970. In 1974 she was employed as Livestock Editor for the Arizona Farmer Ranchman and also worked for Corral Industries on equipment design. In 1975 she earned her M.S. in Animal Science at Arizona State University for her work on the behavior of cattle in different squeeze chutes. Dr. Grandin was awarded her Ph.D in Animal Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and is currently a Professor at Colorado State University.

She has done extensive work on the design of handling facilities. Half the cattle in the U.S. and Canada are handled in equipment she has designed for meat plants. Other professional activities include developing animal welfare guidelines for the meat industry and consulting with McDonalds, Wendy’s International, Burger King, and other companies on animal welfare.

Following her Ph.D. research on the effect of environmental enrichment on the behavior of pigs, she has published several hundred industry publications, book chapters and technical papers on animal handling plus 63 refereed journal articles in addition to ten books.  She currently is a professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University where she continues her research while teaching courses on livestock handling and facility design.  Her book, Animals in Translation was a New York Times best seller and her book Livestock Handling an Transport, now has a third edition which was published in 2007. Other popular books authored by Dr. Grandin are Thinking in Pictures, Emergence Labeled Autistic, Animals Make us Human, Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach, and The Way I See It.

Dr. Grandin has received numerous awards including the Meritorious Achievement Award from the Livestock Conservation Institute, named a Distinguished Alumni at Franklin Pierce College and received an honorary doctorate from McGill University, University of Illinois, and Duke University. She has also won prestigious industry awards including the Richard L. Knowlton Award from Meat Marketing and Technology Magazine and the Industry Advancement Award from the American Meat Institute and the Beef Top 40 industry leaders and the Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Her work has also been recognized by humane groups and she received several awards.  HBO has recently premiered a movie about Temple’s early life and career with the livestock industry. The movie received seven Emmy awards, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody Award. In 2011, Temple was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame.

Dr. Grandin is a past member of the board of directors of the Autism Society of America.  She lectures to parents and teachers throughout the U.S. on her experiences with autism. Articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, People, Time, National Public Radio, 20/20, The View, and the BBC. She was also honored in Time Magazine’s 2010 “The 100 Most Influential People in the World.” In 2012, Temple was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. Dr. Grandin now resides in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

Dr. Jan Blacher is the Founding Director of SEARCH, a family autism resource center newly established at UC Riverside.  Dr. Blacher’s NIH-funded research, which is longitudinal in nature, focuses on the family context of children and adolescents with and without developmental disabilities, including predictors of later psychopathology. She has published on family coping in Anglo and Latino families and on aspects of syndrome specificity and parental well-being. Currently, she is directing a longitudinal study, funded by IES, of successful transitions to school for children on the autism spectrum.

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David Wax Museum - March 7, 8pm

David Wax Museum’s sound tests the boundaries of easy categorization. Singer and guitarist David Wax and bandmate Suz Slezak (vocals and violin) have cultivated a Mexo-American aesthetic by fusing their knowledge of Mexican folk music with American roots and indie rock. The two crafted their unique sound in and around Boston clubs and in rural Veracruz, Mexico when Wax received a graduate fellowship to study regional musical styles including son jarocho. Slezak, who sings lead, also takes turns playing a fiddle and a traditional Mexican instrument called a guijada, which is fashioned from the jawbone of a donkey. The result is an irrepressible combination of harmonies, Mexican rhythms, and rootsy sound that has become an artistic triumph, earning the winsome duo a spot at the prestigious Newport Folk Festival and the 2010 Boston Music Award for Best Americana Artist. Learn more: www. http://www.davidwaxmuseum.com/

March 7, 2013, 8 pm Culver Center of the Arts Free

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VICTOIRE in concert JAN 23, 2013 [ free! ]

VICTOIRE, a Brooklyn-based band founded by composer Missy Mazzoli, has been dubbed an “all-star, all-female quintet” by Time Out New York. This quirky ensemble combines strings, clarinets, keyboards and lo-fi electronics (including samples of sewing machines and answering machine tapes) to create their “minimalist, post-rock bliss”. Victoire is as much a child of composer Philip Glass as of instrumental post-rock ensembles Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Sigur Rós. They’ve been making waves in New York’s downtown music scene for several years. Members of Victoire have performed at BAM, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and other prestigious venues around the world. Their debut album, Cathedral City, released on New Amsterdam Records was the hit-darling of 2010, making several top-ten lists including NPR’s best classical album and The New Yorker’s most memorable album lists.  

Unique to Victoire’s west-coast concert at the Culver Center is an exciting collaboration with UCR MFA dance students who will channel the free-spirited ensemble’s waves of sound in live performance. Their conceptualized choreography will provide a seamless conversation of movement matching the tone, structure, and imagery of Victoire’s immersive and imaginative soundscape.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 8 PM - FREE Culver Center of the Arts 3834 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501

Seating is first come, first served.

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“A dream world with a touch of blackness…The audience is cradled into an enchanting dream world in which they would have loved to linger much longer than the hour long concert allowed.” - Vasterbottens Kuriren, Umea, Sweden

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VICTOIRE in concert - free at the Culver Center January 23, 2013 - 8 PM  

Missy Mazzoli, keyboards and compositions, Olivia De Prato, violin, Eileen Mack, clarinet,Lorna Krier, keyboards, and Eleonore Oppenheim, double bass

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Josh Kornbluth, comic monologuist and filmmaker - April 21

JOSH KORNBLUTH: THE MATHEMATICS OF CHANGE

A comic monologue that recounts the uproarious experiences of a Princeton University would-be math whiz who discovers his limits in freshman calculus. 

April 21, 2013, 4pm Culver Center of the Arts - 3834 Main Street, Riverside Free   

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