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"A classic portrait of William Shakespeare manipulated with a modern, brightly colored digital glitch effect featuring horizontal bands of neon pink, green, yellow, and blue.

Department of English Chair co-curates library exhibition exploring the infinite variety of Shakespeare’s texts

UC Santa Barbara Department of English Chair James Kearney has co-curated "Infinite Variety," a new exhibition at the UCSB Library showcasing rare Shakespeare folios, scripts and historical artifacts that highlight the playwright's enduring cultural legacy.

David Novak looks through a display box of cassette tapes outside a brick music shop in Istanbul. A vintage radio and gramophone sit nearby.

Associate Professor David Novak awarded prestigious ACLS fellowship

Backed by a prestigious ACLS fellowship, ethnomusicologist David Novak is completing a new book that explores how collectors and activists across the Global South use independent archives of physical media to preserve transnational sonic memory.

Artist and professor Shana Moulton sits cross-legged on a blue velvet cushion in her brightly colored, surreal studio setup, facing the camera.

Department of Art Chair Shana Moulton details creative process at Humanities Decanted

UC Santa Barbara Department of Art Chair Shana Moulton recently presented her surreal, multi-media performance work, including her MoMA exhibition, at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Man sitting at a desk with clocks reading Tokyo and Los Angeles in the background points his finger angrily.

Mad as hell: UC Santa Barbara film experts unpack the prophetic satire of 'Network'

Join the UC Santa Barbara Carsey-Wolf Center on April 4 for a free screening and faculty discussion of the 1976 classic film, exploring its startlingly accurate predictions about today's profit-driven media landscape.

A close-up view of a vintage wooden library card catalog cabinet featuring rows of small drawers with brass handles and printed labels.

A whisper in the archives: Two scholars rewrite the histories of commerce and revolution

Sweeping a prestigious international historical society award, a pair of doctoral candidates are shifting the focus of the early modern world.

Black and white archival photograph of two men in the desert, with one man seated on sandbags pointing out to the horizon while the other operates a 1950s motion film camera on a tripod.

Big Oil’s Role in Cinema

UC Santa Barbara assistant professor Mona Damluji's new open-access book reveals how mid-century Western petroleum companies sponsored documentaries in Iran and Iraq, inadvertently fueling a local artistic renaissance.

Artist Tiffany Chung stands in front of navy hand-embroidered maps in a museum gallery.

Tiffany Chung at AD&A Museum

A powerful career retrospective explores hand-embroidered maps, the global "climate-conflict crisis" and the history of human migration across deep time.

Four dancers with flowy yellow and white skirts performing a high leg extension on stage under warm lighting.

Dance Company Tours Europe

Following a celebrated campus premiere, the pre-professional UC Santa Barbara student dance ensemble is traveling across Europe this April to perform an eclectic mix of contemporary choreography.

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Department of English Chair co-curates library exhibition exploring the infinite variety of Shakespeare’s texts

Associate Professor David Novak awarded prestigious ACLS fellowship

Department of Art Chair Shana Moulton details creative process at Humanities Decanted

Mad as hell: UC Santa Barbara film experts unpack the prophetic satire of 'Network'

A whisper in the archives: Two scholars rewrite the histories of commerce and revolution

Big Oil’s Role in Cinema

Tiffany Chung at AD&A Museum

Dance Company Tours Europe

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