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January - June, 2006

President of Fox 2000 Pictures is HFA Commencement Speaker

Distinguished Visiting Scholar Announced for the Everett Zimmerman Seminar in 2007
Professor Roger Chartier, Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études in Paris, will direct the Everett Zimmerman Seminar, to be held February 8 and 9, 2007. Professor Chartier's scholarship in early modern European history has been central to the study of print culture and the history of the book. The Zimmerman Seminar, established in honor of Everett Zimmerman, Professor of English, brings a distinguished eighteenth-century scholar from a field such as literary studies, history, history of science, history of art, philosophy, law, religion, or music to campus to discuss his or her work with students and faculty. The Zimmerman Seminar is hosted by the Early Modern Center in the Department of English.

The Dinosaur Within, Directed by Risa Brainin, through June 3rd at Hatlen

ARTIST TALK: Part Asian, 100% Hapa
Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Art
Thursday, June 1 / 4:00 PM
Multicultural Center Theater
Hapas will recognize this question as one they hear again and again. Award-winning film producer, artist, and professor Kip Fulbeck conceived The Hapa Project as a forum for Hapas to answer the question in their own words and be pictured in simple head-on portraits. These are gathered together in Part Asian, 100% Hapa, offering a simple yet profound statement of Hapa identity. Steering clear of the exoticism so often associated with multiraciality, Fulbeck strives to photograph his subjects as they really are, minus the trappings of everyday life-the clothing and jewelry and makeup.
The artist talk and multimedia presentation will be followed by a booksigning and reception. Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; the Multicultural Center

Dean's Prize Teaching Fellowship Awarded to History PhD Candidate

New Plays Festival, May 19-27
Theatre UCSB presents the UCSB New Plays Festival, a showcase of original work by UCSB playwrights. The Festival features workshop productions of seven new plays written by UCSB playwrights under the guidance of award-winning playwright and UCSB Professor of Dramatic Art Naomi Iizuka. A showcase of original work from the department's own student playwrights. The Festival features four to six plays that are conceived and developed through the course of the academic year, then brought to the stage for workshop productions in the Performing Arts Theatre (no late seating). The plays will be performed in the Performing Arts Theatre May 19-27. Box Office 805-893-3535.

Professor of History, Pat Cohen, Wins Guggenheim
Patricia Cline Cohen, professor of history, is one of 187 American and Canadian artists, scholars, and scientists selected from almost 3,000 applicants to receive prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships this year.

UCIRA "State of the Arts" Conference, May 19 & 20

MAKROLAB to be featured at the UCIRA Conference

UCSB Historian warded Prestigious Prize for Acclaimed Book
UC Santa Barbara Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has been awarded the Robert Ferrell Book Prize, the most prestigious award given by the Society of Historians for Foreign Relations, for "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan" (Harvard University Press, 2005), a critically acclaimed book about the role of the atomic bomb in Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.

Professor of French Named “Commander in the Order of the Academic Palms”
The French government has bestowed a major honor on a professor and senior administrator at UC Santa Barbara for his contributions to scholarship and the understanding and appreciation of French culture.

By the Bog of Cats
Performance and Playwright
March 3-11, Hatlen Theatre
Written by playwright Marina Carr
Directed by Judith Olauson
BY THE BOG OF CATS is an engrossing tale loosely based on the Greek tragedy Medea. Set in rural Ireland, Carr's dark drama is the story of a woman who rejects the fact that her former lover is marrying another and sets off a series of events that strike to the very heart of her community. The UCSB Department of Dramatic Art presents the Michael Douglas Distinguished Visiting Artist MARINA CARR reading from her work. A question and answer session will follow the reading. Friday, March 3 at 4pm in the Hatlen Theatre. Admission is free, and the public is warmly welcomed.

UCSB Makes Earliest Sound Recordings Publicly Available
The Library at UC Santa Barbara has opened up the world of historic sound recordings by mounting thousands of digitized cylinder recordings on an immensely popular new Web site, making this little-known era of recorded sound broadly accessible to scholars and the public for the first time. With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency, the Library has created a new and growing digital collection of more than 6,000 cylinder recordings that are part of a vast collection of early sound recordings in its Department of Special Collections. The new online collection allows users to download digitized versions of thousands of cylinder recordings to their computers and MP3 players or to listen to the recordings online. Visit: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu

Assistant Professor of History Receives Harold J. Plous Award
Recipients of the top Academic Senate awards given to UC Santa Barbara faculty members each year were announced on Jan. 26 at the Senate’s winter quarter meeting. The Harold J. Plous Award was presented to went to John W. I. Lee, Assistant Professor of History, for the 2005-06 term. Lee, whose colleagues had concealed their real purpose for getting him to attend this Senate meeting, heard himself described as an “innovative, brilliant scholar in the early stages of his career” by Plous committee member Sarah Cline, professor of history. His first major work, soon to be published as a book, is a nontraditional military history of the customs and practical concerns of the ancient Greek mercenary army that invaded Persia in the fourth century B.C.

New Book by Humanities Dean Explores 'Aesthetic Experience'
In The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815 (The Johns Hopkins University Press), Marshall, a specialist in 18th-century fiction, aesthetics, and moral philosophy, calls on writings by Charlotte Lennox, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gotthold Lessing, Lord Kames, Henry Mackenzie, David Hume and Jane Austen to examine the 18th-century reader's desire to create his or her own life as if it were a work of art.

Festival Hosts UCSB Filmakers
UC Santa Barbara’s presence at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival continues to grow, with at least four projects from different faculty members—including the third annual Santa Barbara Latino CineMedia fest, organized by Film Studies Professor Cristina Venegas.

Distinquished Scholar Named to Cordano Chair in Catholic Studies
Ann Taves, an internationally recognized historian of Christianity and of American religion, is the first scholar appointed to the Virgil Cordano Chair in Catholic Studies at UC Santa Barbara. The endowed chair is named in honor of the Rev. Virgil Cordano, a Franciscan friar and former pastor of the St. Barbara Parish at the Santa Barbara Mission, who has devoted his life to promoting greater understanding of all religions and increased dialogue among them.

Historian Awarded Dickson Emerti Professorship
Robert O. Collins, a leading scholar of the history and culture of the Sudan and of East Africa, has been awarded the prestigious Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship at UC Santa Barbara for 2005-06. A prolific scholar, Collins is co-author with J. Millard Burr of "Alms for Jihad: Charities and Terrorism in the Islamic World" (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which explores the world of Islamic charities and their funding links to terrorism.

IHC Announces Visiting Artist Program
The IHC is pleased to announce the introduction of a new residency program for artists at UCSB. Sponsored by the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Visiting Artist Program enables UCSB’s Arts Departments to bring distinguished practitioners to campus to conduct workshops and/or master classes, to share their professional insights and to develop new work in situ with faculty and students.