
UC Riverside to host 42nd-annual Writers Week
Writers Week, California’s longest-running free literary event, will return to the University of California, Riverside, for its 42nd installment Feb. 4-5 and Feb. 11-16, 2019, featuring 22 writers across the two-week span. The conference will open with a reading and Q&A with renowned novelist Margaret Atwood. Atwood, whose prolific career...

UCR celebrates 25 years of dance and scholarship
A Feb. 9 event commemorates the Department of Dance’s critical dance studies program. The day-long celebration will feature performances, talks, and roundtable discussions.

$1 million grant advances study of California’s missions
Funding will connect UC scholars across campuses to launch an entirely new field: Critical Mission Studies

Villa-Lobos: An evening of cello and piano in Riverside
The festival was born from a partnership between Paulo C. Chagas, professor with the University of California, Riverside’ Department of Music, and internationally renowned cellist Lars Hoefs.

UCR Palm Desert’s MFA celebrates 10th anniversary
What has made this low residency, self-sustaining program successful, can be attributed to three factors: it embraces fiction genre writing, it teaches students the business aspect of writing, and is driven by student success, boasting a publication/production rate of more than 75 percent within two years of graduating.

This former cop wants to build trust between communities and police
Fulbright Scholar Roberto Rivera looks to Jamaica as a model of restorative justice

UCR poet wins 2018 American Book Award
There was a time when Rachelle Cruz, M.F.A. ’12, had all but given up on getting her poetry collection published. A 10-year labor of love, she recalled sending out “ God’s Will for Monsters” 20-25 times before taking a two-year break from her attempts. As a last-ditch effort, Cruz submitted...

A Ph.D. in punk? Only at UC Riverside
Marlen Ríos-Hernández takes a scholarly approach to the mosh pit

Rolling out the ‘Red Carpet’
Walk into the Culver Center of the Arts, and you’ll immediately find yourself immersed in the new, large-scale exhibition by Yunhee Min and Peter Tolkin. Three gigantic, undulating swathes of red fabric extend toward the entryway, inviting viewers to walk directly onto the massive artwork before arching sharply up toward...

UCR Arts exhibition examines architecture and painting
“Painting Architecture” will open at the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts on Sept. 1

Nalo Hopkinson enters Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman Universe’
Author will pen “House of Whispers,” a new comic series rooted in Afro-Caribbean culture

Historian’s database offers new view of colonial California
Through his Pobladores Project, Steven Hackel spotlights the non-American Indian settlers and soldiers who lived in California between 1769 and 1850