Visiting Artist Lecture with Eamon Ore-Giron

Visiting Artist Lecture with Eamon Ore-Giron

LA-based artist Eamon Ore-Giron will give an in-depth lecture on his artistry. He has received acclaim for his abstract visual art that draws from historical and cultural influences. Ore-Giron received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2006.

KEY PASSAGES TALK: THE MAKING OF GHOST VILLAGE

KEY PASSAGES TALK: THE MAKING OF GHOST VILLAGE

Judith T. Zeitlin, Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, will explore the creation of Ghost Village, an experimental opera based on a ghost story from Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi. The project is a collaboration between scholar and librettist Judith Zeitlin and composer Yao Chen, a Beijing-based professor trained in Chicago.

Modeling Environmental Exposures and Race

Modeling Environmental Exposures and Race

Ebenezer Larnyo, a postdoctoral scholar at the CBSR, will lead a workshop exploring the relationship between environmental exposures and racial disparities in health outcomes. The event will be recorded.

CWC Docs: Monkey on a Stick

CWC Docs: Monkey on a Stick

Filmmaker Jason Lapeyre and UCSB alumnus Nori Muster, the documentary’s subject, will participate in a post-screening discussion of Monkey on a Stick. The film exposes the criminal activity within the Hare Krishna movement in the West during the 1970s and 1980s.

Black Collective Working Paper Series

Black Collective Working Paper Series

This collective’s working paper series invites scholars to share their current research projects and works in progress with a supportive audience of researchers.