To celebrate the recent addition of facsimiles of original William Faulkner manuscripts, the UC Santa Barbara library last week displayed a few of the volumes at an event where five undergraduate scholars in the English department presented their research, all of whom utilized the literary papers.
The 44 volumes of facsimiles — exact or high-quality copies — of original hand-written and typed manuscripts from renowned author William Faulkner, are now housed in the library’s Special Research Collections.
The UCSB Percussion Ensemble gave its performance for the quarter at Karl Geiringer Hall last week. The program, titled “Mostly Mallets, almost entirely featured compositions which were written and arranged for keyboard percussion instruments like the xylophone, marimba and vibraphone.
UCSB Music faculty took to the stage of Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall last week to perform two world premiere compositions from composer Elena Ruehr. Ruehr, who studied at the University of Michigan and Julliard, is a lecturer of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Creative Arts awardee.
With a new year comes new leadership for the Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life. Greg Johnson, formerly a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado and board member of the American Academy of Religion, assumed the role of Director earlier this month, hoping to increase the Center’s engagement with UCSB’s undergraduate population and focus the Center around contemporary topics such as climate change and the collapse of democracy.
Pamella Nadell, director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University, spoke to UCSB and the larger community about the history of America’s Jewish Women. The talk was part of the Taubman Symposia, a lecture series dedicated to promoting Jewish culture.
Hosted by the Confucius Institute, Harvard professor Jie Li delivered a lecture in which she characterized the quasi-religious nature of Maoist cinema and propaganda as a “spirit medium.” Li’s special area of focus includes East Asian culture and cinema, on which she taught several courses and authored many articles.
Scholars from around the globe gathered last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of the late UC Santa Barbara professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Compartive Literature, Jorge de Sena. The event, a colloquium titled ““One Hundred Years of Jorge de Sena Itineraries: Portugal, Brazil, United States,” featured five keynote speakers who each provided unique insight into de Sena’s literary work and personal life.
Jeffrey Boloten, who heads Art and Business Program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, visited UCSB’s program in History of Art and Architecture to lecture on the booming contemporary art market and the boundaries that loosely define that art industry category.
"Green Games" is a class offered in the Film and Media Studies department that mixes environmental studies, media studies, and game design into one hands on course. For this session, the class is joined by visiting professor of architecture Janette Kim of California College of the Arts, who demonstrates her board game "Bartertown," which illustrates how climate change affects society.
