Humanities and Fine Arts student intern Faith Harvey moderated a discussion to mark Mental Health Awareness Month about the links between mental health and arts and humanities. She was joined by panelists Ellen O’Connell Whittet, a UC Santa Barbara continuing lecturer in the Writing Program, and Breana Gilcher, a UC Santa Barbara lecturer in the Department of Music. During this hour-long Zoom webinar, the HFA faculty members discussed their own mental health experiences, trends in mental health they’ve noticed among UCSB students and what advice they would give those suffering from burn out.
Diarmid Flatley, a Ph.D. candidate enrolled in UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology Program, discussed artificial intelligence and his work with “transmodal” arts in an interview with Environmental Studies major Lucian Scher.
UC Santa Barbara’s Sustainability Transportation Committee chair and English professor Ken Hiltner recently spoke about a transportation survey the committee sent out last month. The survey asked students questions about modes of transportation in order to come to a better understanding about why transportation emissions are so high on a campus that prioritizes bike culture.
Jaime Alves, Black Studies professor at UCSB, said that scholars should frame Blackness as a resistance to Latin American colonial narratives that have falsely asserted Blacks were fully integrated into society. This talk was part of the 21st Hispanic and Lusophone Conference, hosted annually by UCSB’s Spanish and Portuguese department.
If journalism is a first draft of history, then documentary is probably a second or third draft, says award-winning Filipino American documentary filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz. But people should experience documentary as cinema, not as a historical account, she told a UC Santa Barbara audience following a recent Carsey-Wolf Center screening of her 2020 documentary A Thousand Cuts.
A UC Santa Barbara professor in the Writing Program Paul Rogers recently sat down for an interview about his research for a chapter of a book “Writing as a Human Activity: Implications and Applications of the Work of Charles Bazerman,” he wrote. In the interview, Rogers discussed how students can contribute to the growing field of social entrepreneurship by using writing as a tool for social change.
UC Santa Barbara historian Salim Yaqub recently published his book on contemporary U.S. history, Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945. Yaqub aimed to provide a “fresh look” at modern America by documenting modern events as recent as the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and Donald Trump’s presidency to help readers understand America’s past.
A Woman, Life ,Freedom art projection was displayed on campus earlier this week in solidarity with the struggle for women’s equality in Iran. Shiva Balaghi, a cultural historian and academic coordinator of the UCSB Area Global Initiative, collaborated with her colleagues at two nonprofit organizations, Mozaik and ArtRise Collective, to create the public art project.
What if you could forget anything you wanted to? To make all your worries and regrets dissipate into nothingness. Would you take the opportunity?
That’s the premise of fourth-year film student Noah Freeman Hecht’s newest short film, Forget Me Again, produced through UC Santa Barbara Film and Media Studies department’s Crew Production course — which he has taken four times in his college career.
A UC Berkeley computer science professor, Hany Farid, spoke to a UC Santa Barbara audience last week about the dangers of deep fake technology and artificial intelligence, as part of IHC’s Too Much Information (TMI) series.
Activists in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, including Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, visited UC Santa Barbara’s Multicultural Center to speak about the increase in Anti-AAPI violence and bias in America after the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a panel discussion, Kulkarni gave a keynote presentation titled “Challenging Hate: How to Stop AAPI Violence.”
In 1951, Moris Sawda’i, an Iraqi Jew, left Baghdad for Israel and worked as an assistant editor on an Israeli film production team. In an unpublished memoir, he wrote, “I hoped to realize my dreams of becoming a great film director. However, at the end of this journey, the fact of working as a small contributor in a big cinema project left me depressed.” Sawda’i went from the top of the film business in his country of birth to starting over, said University of Oslo Middle East cultural historian Pelle Valentin Olsen at a recent UCSB event. The Sawda’i family pioneered the construction of cinemas and established the first Iraqi film studio in the 20th century.
Researcher and author Daniel Araya was co-hosted by the Center for Information Technology and Society and Center for Black Studies Research at UC Santa Barbara, where he discussed the rise of artificial intelligence in the global age. He warned of the potential effects of AI on global powers, societal structures, and the workforce, referencing the recent release of the AI ChatGPT.
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.
