In this talk, Chris Gratien reflects on this question through an exploration of the "late Ottoman frontier,” using three commodities — cotton, sponges, and citrus — in modern-day Turkey, Greece, and Israel.

Directed by Scott Marcus, the UCSB Music of India Ensemble will present North Indian classical music for sitar and tabla. First, the 1st year students will present rag Bhairavi. Then, the advanced students will present rag Malkauns.

Judith T. Zeitlin, Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, will explore the creation of Ghost Village, an experimental opera based on a ghost story from Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi. The project is a collaboration between scholar and librettist Judith Zeitlin and composer Yao Chen, a Beijing-based professor trained in Chicago.

Ebenezer Larnyo, a postdoctoral scholar at the CBSR, will lead a workshop exploring the relationship between environmental exposures and racial disparities in health outcomes. The event will be recorded.

Filmmaker Jason Lapeyre and UCSB alumnus Nori Muster, the documentary’s subject, will participate in a post-screening discussion of Monkey on a Stick. The film exposes the criminal activity within the Hare Krishna movement in the West during the 1970s and 1980s.

Maurice Backschat, a Research Associate and PhD candidate at the University of Münster and the University of Groningen, will discuss how Nazi ideology and Protestant theological thought often intersected in Nazi Germany, using a case study.