UC Santa Barbara sociology major Olivia Roberts reflects on her discovery of the Linguistics Department and how the culture of language applies to her experience as an out-of-state college student.
UC Santa Barbara’s music department is adapting online teaching methods to create virtual solo and chamber music sessions in light of COVID-19 social distancing measures.
At her virtual Friday evening book launch, UC Santa Barbara writing lecturer and former ballerina Ellen O’Connell Whittet spoke to over a hundred colleagues, friends, family, and students over Zoom about her new memoir: What You Become in Flight. O’Connell Whittet described how ballet normalizes “sacrificing the body, to contort it into something perfect” and why a career-ending injury made her consider how this principle impacted her life.
Though Carsey Wolf Center is unable to hold in-person film screenings this quarter due to COVID-19, post-film conversations with media experts from past screenings are available online. Catch up on previous discussions about filmmaking as Pollock Theater showcases past events as a weekly “Series Spotlight.”
Since 1998, Pastor Victor Bell has been leading the Gospel Choir at UCSB. In an interview, he speaks about his career, his passion for gospel music, and his relationship with his students in the UCSB Gospel Choir.
UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design and Architecture Museum has responded to its COVID-19 imposed closure by creating digital portals for the public to be able to tour exhibits and collections. Read more about it here, along with an invitation by acting directly Silvia Perea to engage with the museum via feedback comments.
Originally a literary arts magazine club, The Catalyst magazine now offers a four-unit course at UCSB, providing creative collaboration as a means to fulfill the unit requirement. UC Santa Barbara undergraduate student Renee Whalen delves into how mixing poetry and art in this course changed her relationship with writing.
Carly Maris, UC Riverside faculty member, tells about bringing her research from the Middle East to Southern California.
Fabio Rambelli, the chair of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara, organized a series of workshops exploring the music, dance, costumes, and history of Gagaku, the music and dance of the Japanese Imperial Court. The workshops, held last week, were led by the Hideaki Bunno Gagaku Ensemble, a small group of renowned musicians from Japan.
Hostile Terrain 94 is a political art installation that memorializes 3,200 migrants who died in their attempts to cross the Sonoran Desert at the Arizona-Mexico border. It has had a meaningful impact on the UCSB students who have participated in it since it opened in January at UCSB’s Art, Design and Architecture Museum.
Aaron Huey recently spoke at UC Santa Barbara about his journey from impassioned photojournalist to leader of one of one of the world’s largest art movements.
The talk, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center was titled “Art as Compass,” and catalogued how Huey went from taking photos for National Geographic to founding Amplifier.org, a non-profit dedicated to the mass dissemination of art which amplifies voices that otherwise would go unheard.
Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker columnist discusses how she uses narrative techniques with historical arguments to explain modern political and social issues. The presentation was sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s History Department.
To celebrate the recent addition of facsimiles of original William Faulkner manuscripts, the UC Santa Barbara library last week displayed a few of the volumes at an event where five undergraduate scholars in the English department presented their research, all of whom utilized the literary papers.
The 44 volumes of facsimiles — exact or high-quality copies — of original hand-written and typed manuscripts from renowned author William Faulkner, are now housed in the library’s Special Research Collections.
UC Santa Barbara Writing student Greg Silver recently interviewed Dance major Abby LoSole about her time learning and teaching ballet in downtown Santa Barbara.
UC Santa Barbara students Alexander Shuryepov and Mitchka Saberi have proven that with passion, dedication and support, almost anything is possible. Their short-feature film, Mother of Chernobyl, originally produced for UCSB’s GreenScreen program and released in the spring of 2019, was an official selection at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, has won two major awards, and is going on to Moscow.
The Professional Writing Minor at UC Santa Barbara.held its annual information session last week, marking a pivotal moment for its applicants: It’s time to start preparing to apply for the coming year. The Minor has launched a new Journalism track, and now offers students a choice of six distinct areas of professional focus. The other tracks are: Business Communication, Civic Engagement, Multimedia Communication, Professional Editing, and Science Communication. Read more about this popular program here.
The UCSB Percussion Ensemble gave its performance for the quarter at Karl Geiringer Hall last week. The program, titled “Mostly Mallets, almost entirely featured compositions which were written and arranged for keyboard percussion instruments like the xylophone, marimba and vibraphone.
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.
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.