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After attending protests in both Japan and New York, Noriko Manabe, a leading scholar in ethnomusicology at both Stanford and Temple University, noticed that Americans are much quieter in protests than Japanese people. Manabe, who was hosted by UC Santa Barbara’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, attributes this difference to increased police presence in Japan which forces protesters to split into smaller groups and use sound to find unity with one another.
Shortly before the American theatrical release of Lebanese writer and director Oualid Mouaness’ film “1982,” he sat down with UC Santa Barbara chair of Global Studies Paul Amar to discuss the film and his country. Mouaness said he hopes his portrayal of the 1982 Lebanese War will humanize battle for audiences unfamiliar with the realities of fighting. It did that for UCSB student Colleen Coveney, who describes her reaction in this article.
Magic Lantern Films screened Save Yourselves! last weekend at Isla Vista Theater, the first Magic Lantern film night to air in person after 19 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the screening, there was a Q&A with the film’s co-writers and co-directors Eleanor Wallace and Alex Huston Fischer.
