Andrew Hartman, a U.S. political history professor at Illinois State University, visited UC Santa Barbara to discuss Marxism’s impact on modern American politics and economics.
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Joy Harjo, the first Native American US Poet Laureate, spoke to UC Santa Barbara literature and writing students at the College of Creative Studies.
This symposium highlighted research in graphic visualization of representation, power, and identity. Topics such as race, sexuality, nation, and more were explored through the power and ability of engagement through comics, a rising medium in cultural studies research. Visiting Professor Frederick Luis Aldama from The Ohio State University joined other graduate students from a wide span of universities to discuss this growing interest in visual representation.
After over a decade a service, Jamie Birkett is leaving his position as the Technical Director for the Department of Theater and Dance.
UCSB Music faculty took to the stage of Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall last week to perform two world premiere compositions from composer Elena Ruehr. Ruehr, who studied at the University of Michigan and Julliard, is a lecturer of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Creative Arts awardee.
UC Santa Barbara’s Classics department’s work with historically black colleges and universities has been recognized by the Society for Classical Studies with its 2019 Equity Award. Classics professor Brice Erickson discusses the department’s groundbreaking summer project with Howard University students.
A new chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists has been started at UCSB. President and vice president, Fabiola Esqueda and Noey Padilla, sat down to discuss what this organization means to them and the Latinx community on campus.
With a new year comes new leadership for the Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life. Greg Johnson, formerly a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado and board member of the American Academy of Religion, assumed the role of Director earlier this month, hoping to increase the Center’s engagement with UCSB’s undergraduate population and focus the Center around contemporary topics such as climate change and the collapse of democracy.
UC Santa Barbara's Philosophy Department boasts the fastest growing Humanities major among undergraduates. Along with three recent faculty hires, new courses such as the Philosophy of Economics have been added to the curriculum and there are plans to keep expanding. In this video by HFA intern Calvin Bruhns, faculty and students describe how Philosophy has become a go-to major to prepare for post-graduate work and professional schools.
Small, individual acts of environmental consciousness ─ while worthwhile for the planet ─ are nothing compared to the massive policy change needed to solve the climate crisis, Northwestern University religion and culture professor Sarah McFarland Taylor told a UCSB audience earlier this month. The Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life hosted Taylor, who discussed her book Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue.
UCSB Theatre and Dance professor Delila Moseley gives us a first look into the UCSB Dance Company’s 30th anniversary international tour, in spring 2020.
UC Santa Barbara students have seen the History of Public Policy as a a good major to prepare for law school. Now, starting later in 2020, students will be able to major in the History of Public Policy and Law. Program director Randy Bergstrom explains in an interview.
Pamella Nadell, director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University, spoke to UCSB and the larger community about the history of America’s Jewish Women. The talk was part of the Taubman Symposia, a lecture series dedicated to promoting Jewish culture.
UC Santa Barbara English professor Ken Hiltner sat down to discuss NXTerra, an online archive with tools for educators to teach climate change.
UC Santa Barbara film students Cameron Leingang and Lexi Lunchick are producing a documentary about the 2014 Isla Vista shooting called “Not One More,” to premiere next March, at the Pollock Theater on UCSB’s campus. The film is being made as a part of a Film and Media Studies course called Crew Production.
Bonnie Ruberg, a UC Irvine assistant professor of Informatics says that video games have always been queer because their design allows game engineers to resist sexual and gender norms and they allow individual gamers to do the same through gameplay. Ruberg was on campus as a guest speaker hosted by UC Santa Barbara’s Film and Media Department.
In an interview, UC Santa Barbara alumnus Jason Prystowsky discusses the new Medical Humanities Certificate program and why the future of medicine would benefit from interdisciplinary education.
Lawyer and activist Ady Barkan brought wisdom from a lifetime of political advocacy to UC Santa Barbara last week, inspiring a packed room of students, professors, and faculty to reject complacency in the face of adversity.
Norwegian theologian LeRon Shults visited UCSB to share his work on Human Simulation, an interdisciplinary research project that combines the expertise of humanists and scientists to study the past and predict the future.
Hosted by the Confucius Institute, Harvard professor Jie Li delivered a lecture in which she characterized the quasi-religious nature of Maoist cinema and propaganda as a “spirit medium.” Li’s special area of focus includes East Asian culture and cinema, on which she taught several courses and authored many articles.