Arts & Insights - a Collection of online events happening across the Humanities and Fine Arts!
Join the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts for a curated selection of virtual events across disciplines that explore current issues and ideas. We are pleased to share upcoming interactive online programming, including live lectures, presentations, performances, and post-screening film conversations, most of which are free of charge.
Students, alumni, supporters, and lifelong learners are all welcome. Come explore and interact with your HFA community, no matter where you are!
Upcoming Events
Hosted by the Carsey-Wolf Center, Sam Kadi will join Juan Campo (religious studies) in a post-screening discussion of Kadi’s film The Citizen, a portrayal of an Arab immigrant's journey to America just before 9/11.
NY born LA based artist Meghan Gordon will visit UCSB as part of the Art department’s visiting speaker series. Gordon’s art examines how labor, language, value, and pleasure play a role in the formation of personal relationships.
UCSB Music, UCSB Theater and Dance, and Ventura College of Performing arts will be joining forces to present an evening of Opera, directed by UCSB’s own head of voice program, Isabel Bayrakdarian.
Presented by the History department, Religious Studies, and the Walter H. Capps Center, Diane Winston, journalism and communication professor at USC, will visit UCSB to discuss how Ronald Reagan's portrayal of the American Dream, evangelical rhetoric, and the media contributed to Donald Trump's political rise.
This quarter’s HFA Speaks will be celebrating UCSB’s foreign language courses as a gateway to global culture, allowing students to engage with the world. Sitting on the panel is Magda Campo from Religious Studies, Sabine Frühstück from East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, Laura Marqués-Pascual from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and HFA Intern and moderator Jackie Jauregui. Refreshments will be provided.
In a two-day conference with twenty presentations, late UCSB English professor Glyn Salton-cox will be honored.