This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the second place prose entry submitted by David Gjerde.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the first place prose entry submitted by Claudia Lee.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the winning poetry entries submitted by Kiana Perez, Aran Hosseini, and Vivian Walman-Randall.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the music submitted by Noah Vela, Charlie Prindle, and Violet Joy Hanson.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Students from all walks of life submitted their original works of photography, poetry, prose, visual art, and music for the opportunity to be featured on the HFA website.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the works of photography and visual art submitted by Aran Hosseini, Reed Gaynor, Ethan Lacher, and Pricila Flores.
South African film director Enver Samuel produced a documentary on the 1988 assisination of South African anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September, Murder in Paris: The Assassination of Dulcie September. In a post-screening discussion of the film , a panel of UCSB professors and visiting NYU scholar Leonard Cortana, focused on sexism as a factor that prevented September from receiving proper police protection and due justice after her murder.
I-In Chiang is a Taipei-based film academic who teaches East Asian Languages and Cultures at Tamkang University. She recently shared her most recent research on Li Han-hsiang, a prolific Chinese director during the 1960s and 70s, as well as the founder of Grand Motion Pictures. This private-owned studio revolutionized the Taiwanese film industry and elevated its status amongst other Asian cinemas during a period in history where political tensions ran high.
The UC Santa Barbara Dance Company departed early this week for its annual trip to Europe, where the company will perform its repertoire across multiple countries as well as take and teach dance classes while immersing itself in international culture. This year the company will visit Krakow, Prague, and Barcelona, and will even perform twice on April 29 in celebration of International Dance Day.
Makenna Gaeta found her voice at UCSB’s WORD Magazine, breaking through her anxieties and finding her passion for journalism through the challenging process of writing her very first published work.
On January 6, 2021, when an armed mob stormed the U.S. capitol building to prevent Congress from verifying the presidential election, viewers were surprised to see rioters sporting Christian symbols. But for author and sociology professor Samuel Perry, the Christian symbolism at the insurrection represented a growing ideological trend in American politics. In a recent talk, Perry presented research from national surveys to define the ideology known as Christian nationalism and illuminate the threat such ideas pose to U.S democracy.
In a recent Interdisciplinary Humanities Center event, writer Elizabeth Kolbert introduced her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, which explores the relationship between technology and climate change. She said that humans must use technology to create sustainable solutions in order to save our dying planet.
The Glass Box Gallery, a student ran exhibition space on campus, kicked off Spring quarter by hosting UCSB Art student Anna Sophia Monzon. Last week, Monzon displayed her colorful art series “Up, Up, and Away.” Monzon spoke about her journey as a painter and the events that brought the series to life.
Art student Jasmin Tupy hosted an art show gallery in her Isla Vista home last month featuring several other student artists – to showcase the talents of the college town next to UC Santa Barbara.
Holly Roose, the director of UCSB’s Promise Scholars Program, works with high-achieving, first-generation students from low-income households to ensure their academic success. As director, she advises students, makes sure they hit their academic marks, supports them to overcome life difficulties, and helps them plan for future careers.
Americans created a criminal punishment system based on the model of quarantine in which the poor and people of color are disproportionately isolated and contained, “treated as a pathogen,” Sharon Daniel, a professor at UC Santa Cruz and media artist, told the UCSB Media Arts and Technology (MAT) graduate program. Now, in the 21st century, the COVID-19, has both exposed and intensified the injustices of the criminal system, Daniel said as she walked through her interactive art documentary “EXPOSED: Documenting COVID-19 in the Criminal Punishment System.”
Yin Yu, a graduate student in UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program, debuted her 3D fusion of biology and technology recently at the Art Department’s Glassbox Gallery. Yu’s pieces “OctoAnenome” and “SoftVoss” are a representation of her desire to portray the potential of robots to behave realistically with life-like motions.
In celebration of Women's History Month, UC Santa Barbara's Humanities and Fine Arts division hosted a panel entitled "The Wisdom of Women," in which two faculty members stressed uplifting and recovering female voices that are not often heard in mainstream discussions of women in history. UCSB undergraduate student Colleen Coveney, engaged author and English professor Cherríe Moraga and History professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia in an insightful discussion that ranged from the panelists' personal histories to the difficulties they encounter in academic circles.
UC Santa Barbara history professors Anthony Barbieri and Sherene Seikaly were recently awarded $60,000 each by the National Humanities Alliance to further their research on the ancient Han Dynasty and Levantine mobility, respectively.
UC Santa Barbara second-year dance and biology double major Riley Haley balances being a full-time student and performing with the Santa Barbara Dance Theater, a professional dance company. Though she must devote a significant chunk of her time to these academic and artistic passions, she is grateful to UCSB that she does not have to choose between the two.