UCLA Classics professor Ella Haselswerdt said that the chorus from the Greek Tragedy Agamemnon gradually transforms from a distant bystander to an active participant in the play’s action, at an event sponsored by UCSB’s Classics and Theater and Dance departments. She said that this metamorphosis is “unparalleled” in surviving Greek Tragedy.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of student across the UCSB campus. Check out our video and music category winners.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across UCSB’s campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of students across the UCSB campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative student across the UCSB campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won first place in the prose category.
This spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted the annual creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. The following are the winning submissions in the Photography and Visual arts categories.
UC Santa Barbara’s annual Creativity Contest this spring honored three Poetry winners at a Give Day Ceremony in early April. The winners, alongside their work, are featured here.
UCSB’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts celebrated Give Day last week with its annual Creativity Contest. Students from all majors and years submitted works in different categories—photography, prose, poetry, visual art, music and video—for the opportunity to be published on the HFA website. The winners were honored at a luncheon award ceremony.
Nasser Rabbat, director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Middle East Studies to to speak about one of the most important Egyptian historians, Al-Maqrizi, a documentarian of the medieval Mamluk period who impacts Egyptian scholars and students still today.
Robert Weller, anthropology professor at Boston University, spoke to a UC Santa Barbara audience about how Taiwanese religious rituals use both noise and silence to mark transitions, establish rhythm, and create an emotional choreography.
Professor of Media & Communications and author Derek Vaillant, a visiting researcher for the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara, explained the ways in which World War I expanded opportunities in radio. He said African Americans and women gained access to radio communication skills from the war effort.
UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum celebrated 60 years of its Architecture and Design Collection with a talk from the exhibits curator Silvia Perea. Perea walked guests through a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the hundreds of archives, as well as introduced visitors to an eclectic exhibition, Genius Loci: Domesticity and Identity in Southern California which will be up until early May.
As the climate crisis has grown as one of this era's most significant challenges, the overwhelmingly data-centric presentation of science may impede its ability to inform the public, says Heather Houser, a professor of American and English literature at the University of Texas at Austin, at a recent UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center webinar. Instead of using too much information, Houser suggests that art and literature can help people engage with environmental issues emotionally and meaningfully.
Fourth-year Theater and Dance major Sophie Lynd finds she is able to enhance the emotional impact of her productions through theater lighting design. Lynd has worked on many productions and recently adapted previous lighting designs for the UCSB Dance Company.
Indie video game developers Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka spoke about representing Taiwan through their latest game, Sephonie, at an event sponsored by UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies.
Growing up in Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara Writing Minor alumna Ashley Rusch frequently tuned in to her local radio station LAist 89.3, formerly known as KPCC-FM, becoming familiar with longtime radio host Larry Mantle. Now, after graduating from UCSB in 2022, Rusch is working for the same host she grew up listening to.
UC Santa Barbara composition program chair Joao Pedro Oliveira recently showed his latest visual music opera — “The 70th Week” — in downtown Santa Barbara, as part of the Corwin Chair Concert Series. In an interview with communication student Sarah Phan, Oliveira talked about the work’s biblical inspiration, and the challenges he faced as a composer during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Two UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students created an art exhibition about climate change from the ground up—with no previous art experience. Fourth-year student Lukas Kraak and third-year student Noah Weiss were part of an Environmental Leadership Incubator (ELI) year-long course in which they were able to turn their idea into reality. Their exhibition is located on the first floor of the UCSB Library.
UC Santa Barbara alumna Alivia Birdwell highlighted possible next steps for graduating seniors in the Professional Writing Minor at a recent Graduate Speaker Series talk. Birdwell said her undergraduate internship experience led to a successful career in marketing and explained how the writing minor unexpectedly provided an avenue to the world of marketing - from an internship to her subsequent 10 years of marketing experience.
