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Dongguk University media and communication professor Ha Sung Hwang’s research focuses on the effects of social media and the role it plays in the global popularity of Korean pop music. In a lecture hosted by UCSB’s East Asia Center, where she is a visiting fellow, she discussed how BTS and its ARMY are contributing to a new and diverse boy band culture fueled by digital power.
Brazil-based author, researcher, and professor Marcos Cueto examined how contradictory and inadequate government responses to epidemics in Latin America have been an historical trend that reappeared during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
While social media can turn the COVID-19 pandemic into a creativity contest, UCSB English major Sarah Danielzadeh learned from Shakespeare’s “King Lear” that it’s normal to feel unmotivated during this period of chaos.
UC Santa Barbara alumna Alex Hoffman is a New York-based costume designer who graduated as a history and theater double major. She combines her knowledge in history and theater to design characters for Broadway, television, and film.
Sam Rankin, third-year art major in UCSB’s College of Creative Studies and art director for the Daily Nexus, discusses how her experiences with various classes she has taken in the Department of Art have influenced her greatly as a comic artist.
Since 1998, Pastor Victor Bell has been leading the Gospel Choir at UCSB. In an interview, he speaks about his career, his passion for gospel music, and his relationship with his students in the UCSB Gospel Choir.
Hostile Terrain 94 is a political art installation that memorializes 3,200 migrants who died in their attempts to cross the Sonoran Desert at the Arizona-Mexico border. It has had a meaningful impact on the UCSB students who have participated in it since it opened in January at UCSB’s Art, Design and Architecture Museum.
UC Santa Barbara students Alexander Shuryepov and Mitchka Saberi have proven that with passion, dedication and support, almost anything is possible. Their short-feature film, Mother of Chernobyl, originally produced for UCSB’s GreenScreen program and released in the spring of 2019, was an official selection at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, has won two major awards, and is going on to Moscow.
UCSB art student Peytie Slater has a passion for fashion and positive self-expression, which she expresses through wearing her unique outfits on campus. She shares her story behind creating her fashion brand, True Violette.
UC Santa Barbara English professor Ken Hiltner sat down to discuss NXTerra, an online archive with tools for educators to teach climate change.
Norwegian theologian LeRon Shults visited UCSB to share his work on Human Simulation, an interdisciplinary research project that combines the expertise of humanists and scientists to study the past and predict the future.
Los Angeles painter Salomón Huerta presented UCSB students, staff, and community members with artworks that were deeply influenced by his personal life. His paintings are on display at the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum as part of the ¡Chicanismo! collection, which was mounted in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Chicano/a Studies Department at UCSB.
