Events for the Week of: 19-25 April 2021
Monday, April 19
Talk: Korea and the Indo-Pacific Strategy
4:00 pm - Monday, April 19
The U.S. relationship with the two Koreas will necessarily engage the wider geostrategic landscape, and likely continuity in an Indo-Pacific Strategy. Stephan Haggard, director of the Korea-Pacific Program, will engage with Heino Klinck, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, on the outlook for U.S.-China relations and how that will effect U.S. relations with Japan and the two Koreas.
Korea-Pacific Program Webinar Series:
This webinar series is designed to showcase new research as well as a forum for discussion of major policy issues. This series has received generous support from the Korea Foundation and the National Research Foundation of Korea.
Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event
Monday, April 19 - 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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Tuesday, April 20
Zoominar: Abenomics and the Japanese Economy
4:30 pm - Tuesday, April 20
Stagnation, two lost decades, government debt, zombies. And, reform, industrial restructuring, policies to increase Japan’s “financial metabolism”. What is the current state of the Japanese economy, what are the important metrics to assess it properly, and how should we evaluate the successes of the “Abenomics” reform programs? Join a conversation with Takeo Hoshi about his two new books, “The Japanese Economy” (with Taka Ito) and “The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms” (co-edited with Phillip Lipscy).
Speakers:
• Takeo Hoshi, Professor of Economics, the University of Tokyo
• Ulrike Schaede, Professor and Director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology, GPS UC San Diego
Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event
Tuesday, April 20 - 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
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Talk: Myanmar: Development, Democracy, and Despair
6:30 pm - Tuesday, April 20
The San Diego World Affairs Council presents the "Distinguished Speaker" Series with Richard Nuccio (International Governance and Development Specialist) and Giles Dickenson-Jones (Applied Economist, Asia-Pacific region) who will speak on: Development, Democracy, and Despair - What Myanmar's Faltering Democratic Prospects Means for its Economic and Political Future
Admission/Cost: FREE
Zoom Link
Location:
Online Streaming Event
Tuesday, April 20 - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
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Wednesday, April 21
Poetry Reading with Kazim Ali
12:00 pm - Wednesday, April 21
Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including the volumes of poetry Inquisition, Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; the Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award; the Fortieth Day; All One's Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published the Secret Room: a String Quartet and:00 AMong his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, Ananda Devi, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing, Ali taught at various colleges and universities, including Oberlin College, Davidson College, St. Mary's College of California, and Naropa University.
Kazim is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled the Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light.
Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event
Wednesday, April 21 - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Book Talk: Yellow Wife
4:00 pm - Wednesday, April 21
Warwick’s presents Sadeqa Johnson in conversation with Janet Skeslien Charles.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother's position as the estate's medicine woman and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.
She'd been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer's cruelty but also to his contradictions. to survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Facebook Live
Location:
Online Streaming Event
Wednesday, April 21 - 4:00 PM
Shakespeare Trivia Night
7:00 pm - Wednesday, April 21
Enjoy a free evening of Zoom socializing on the Bard’s works, on his birthday. Trivia contest grand prize is a $75 gift certificate to the Shakespeare Pub. Come as a team or join one there. Non-Shakespeare questions included, other prizes include show passes, Shakespeare Festival t-shirts and the bestowal of Bard-inspired nicknames. Register online for zoom link.
Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event
Wednesday, April 21 - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
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Thursday, April 22
3 Italian Films
- Thursday, April 22
| The theme for Earth Day 2021 is Restore Our Earth. Our three movies are about the always unstable balance between nature, science, and humanity, with the exploitation of our natural resources in the background. Together we can work to restore our earth. Il pianeta in mare (A Planet in the Sea) by Andrea Segre (93') Entering the industrial world of Marghera, the mechanical heart of the Venice Lagoon which has not stopped beating for a hundred years: it’s a world hanging in the balance between an awkward past and an uncertain future, where the workforce is made up of over sixty different nationalities. Wandering into and marveling at places hardly ever explored before, like the steel bellies of great ships under construction, the shadows of the abandoned bastions of the Petrolchimico facility, the blast furnaces and smokestacks of the refineries, the new computerized world of Vega or the hundreds of containers that intercontinental shipping lines unload round the clock on the edges of the motionless lagoon. Through the lives of workers, manager, truck drivers and the cook of the last trattoria left in Marghera, the images help us to understand what remains of Italy’s great dream of industrial progress now that the country is immersed, after the crises and wounds of the recent past, in global flows of finance and migration. Ferruccio, storia di un robottino by Stefano De Felici (7') Duccio is an inventor by vocation, and in his home-workshop takes on an exceptional challenge. Thanks to his determination and a bit of magic, a short-circuit will create Ferruccio, a robot created by assembling devices that have been recycled. Olmo by Silvio Soldini (10') 80-year-old Olmo looks out of a window of a building in the suburban area of a city. His 8-year-old grandson, Giulio, is reading him an article from the newspaper about melting glaciers, the greenhouse fifer, and CO2... “What is C-O-2?” asks the child. “Do you remember the Carbon dioxide we studied?” replies Grandpa. “The one the trees breathe?” says Giulio. the next day, instead of going to school, they leave for a short tour looking for an old tree. On Sunday, April 25th, which is also Italian Liberation Day, we will host a live Q/A at 11:00 AM with special guests from the three movies. Admission/Cost: $16 - $20 Location: Online Streaming Event Dates and times: Ongoing from Thursday, April 22 to Saturday, April 24 Keep informed about San Diego Events! Sign-up for our weekly Eblast by clicking here: Sign Me Up! |
2021 Women PeaceMakers Event
6:30 pm - Thursday, April 22
The Kroc School's signature Women PeaceMakers (WPM) event returns on April 22, 2021 - and this time, we're going virtual! Tune in from your corner of the world to learn from and with this year's four extraordinary women leaders about the powerful role women play in negotiating peace.
Each year, the WPMs are selected from a competitive set of applicants based on their accomplishments and expertise related to a given research focus. for 2020-2021, the WPMs are focused on a critical topic: how international peacebuilding organizations can better partner with local women peacebuilders to address the closing spaces and increased insecurity women are currently facing when working to end cycles of violence.
During this Kroc School signature event, you'll hear more about these efforts, plus:
- Real stories about what it's like being a woman peacebuilder in the Covid era
- Insights about the challenges and opportunities of being on the front lines and in the back rooms of shaping more peaceful societies
- Ideas for how we can bring more equity, justice, and compassion to our communities.
This interactive event will include a mixture of engaging discussion featuring the WPMs, videos that give a closer look at the WPMs in action, and a Q&A with our changemaking audience.
Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event
Thursday, April 22 - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
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Friday, April 23
Virtual Tour of Umbria, Italy
10:00 am - Friday, April 23
Streaming Lectures with Local Tour Guide Riccardo Fausti
Each live lecture will last about 40 minutes + Q&A
You will receive a link after your ticket purchase. Recordings will be available.
A percentage of proceeds will be donated to the Italian Cultural Center, San Diego.
Admission/Cost: $0 - $18
Location:
Online Streaming Event
Dates, times and topics:
Friday, April 23 - 10:00 AM - Geography, Nature, Food & Wine: Umbria uncovered: where to go and what to taste in the Green Heart of Italy
Saturday, April 24 - 10:00 AM - History & Art: Umbria through centuries: from pre-Roman to Saint Francis, from the Renaissance to the Grand Tours
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iCafé – Your Passport to Culture!
12:00 pm - Friday, April 23
Global Education, in partnership with Extension, Outreach and Recreation at UC San Diego, invites you to iCafé, International Friday Café’s virtual café, teams up with campus partners to explore the world as global citizens and frequent "virtual" flyers!
Play Travel Trivia hosted by Extension (winner gets a prize!) and enjoy our Global Playground hosted by Recreation. Receive a free apron by sharing a recipe in the Cook Club! This fun global exploration happens at 12:00 PM on Fridays (Pacific Time).
Each quarter we visit different global destinations on Fridays! Check us out on Facebook and watch previous iCafé recordings too. Connect with your Triton community over culture, trivia, fitness and cuisine. Join us and bring a friend...It's free and fun of course!
Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event
Dates and times:
Friday, April 9 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Taiwan
Friday, April 16 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Cambodia
Friday, April 23 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Brazil
Friday, April 30 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - New Zealand
Friday, May 7 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Hong Kong
Friday, May 14 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - France
Friday, May 21 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Saudi Arabia
Friday, May 28 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Philippines
Friday, June 4 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Malaysia
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iCafé – Your Passport to Culture!
12:00 pm - Friday, April 23
Global Education, in partnership with Extension, Outreach and Recreation at UC San Diego, invites you to iCafé, International Friday Café’s virtual café, teams up with campus partners to explore the world as global citizens and frequent "virtual" flyers!
Play Travel Trivia hosted by Extension (winner gets a prize!) and enjoy our Global Playground hosted by Recreation. Receive a free apron by sharing a recipe in the Cook Club! This fun global exploration happens at 12:00 PM on Fridays (Pacific Time).
Each quarter we visit different global destinations on Fridays! Check us out on Facebook and watch previous iCafé recordings too. Connect with your Triton community over culture, trivia, fitness and cuisine. Join us and bring a friend...It's free and fun of course!
Admission/Cost: FREE
Register
Location:
Online Streaming Event
Dates and times:
Friday, April 9 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Taiwan
Friday, April 16 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Cambodia
Friday, April 23 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Brazil
Friday, April 30 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - New Zealand
Friday, May 7 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Hong Kong
Friday, May 14 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - France
Friday, May 21 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Saudi Arabia
Friday, May 28 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Philippines
Friday, June 4 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Malaysia
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The Shadow of El Centro: a History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity
4:00 pm - Friday, April 23
| Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San Diego and Yuma, Arizona, has made it an important place for Mexican migrants attracted to the valley’s agricultural economy. in 1945, it also became home to the El Centro Immigration Detention Camp. the Shadow of El Centro tells the story of how that camp evolved into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center of the 2000s and became a national model for detaining migrants--a place where the policing of migration, the racialization of labor, and detainee resistance coalesced. Using government correspondence, photographs, oral histories, and private documents, Jessica Ordaz reveals the rise and transformation of migrant detention through this groundbreaking history of one detention camp. the story shows how the U.S. detention system was built to extract labor, to discipline, and to control migration, and it helps us understand the long and shadowy history of how immigration officials went from detaining a few thousand unauthorized migrants during the 1940s to confining hundreds of thousands of people by the end of the twentieth century. Ordaz also uncovers how these detained migrants have worked together to create transnational solidarities and innovative forms of resistance.Bio: Jessica Ordaz is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her doctorate from the University of California Davis in American History. During the 2017-2018 academic year, Ordaz was the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, which focused on comparative racial capitalism. Her first book, the Shadow of El Centro: a History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, was released in March 2021. Her second project will explore the multifaceted history of veganism and plant-based diets throughout the Americas, focusing on colonization, food politics, and social justice. This research will illuminate the wider and transnational history of Latinx veganism and how communities of color have engaged with questions of animal, human, and plant relations for centuries. Admission/Cost: FREE Register Location: Online Streaming Event Friday, April 23 - 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM Keep informed about San Diego Events! Sign-up for our weekly Eblast by clicking here: Sign Me Up! |
Saturday, April 24
16th Annual Student Shakespeare Festival
11:00 am - Saturday, April 24
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Book Talk: Kate Quinn
1:00 pm - Saturday, April 24
Warwick's will host Kate Quinn as she discusses her new book, the Rose Code, in conversation with Kristina McMorris. Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. a native of Southern California, she attended Boston University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical voice. a lifelong history buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the 20th century with the Alice Network, the Huntress, and the Rose Code. All have been translated into multiple languages.
Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event
Saturday, April 24 - 11:00 AM
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San Diego Opera: the Barber of Seville
7:00 pm - Saturday, April 24
San Diego Opera presents a "Drive in Opera" at the Pechanga Arena. Gioachino Rossini’s comic masterpiece about love and money and the means one will go through to get both. Featuring some of the most recognizable music ever composed.
Admission/Cost: $200 - $300
Location:
Pechanga Arena San Diego - Parking Lot
3500 Sports Arena Blvd
San Diego CA 92110
