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Environmental sustainability professor from the University of Michigan, Kyle Whyte, spoke to a virtual UCSB audience about climate justice and the importance of including of Indigenous peoples in the fight against climate change. This event was presented by the Walter H. Capps Center.
UCSB Professor of Arabic language and literature, Dwight Reynolds, previews his book, The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus, in this audio interview.
UC Santa Barbara theater professor, William Davies King and NYU assistant professor, Rebecca Falkoff talk about the relationship that collecting and hoarding have with art and the mind.
HFA videographer Denise Shapiro checked in with Humanities and Fine Arts students during fall 2020, to see how they were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and to hear their perspectives on studying remotely. From writing commentaries to producing a mockumentary, UC Santa Barbara's students are keeping up with their education and keeping themselves entertained while social distancing.
For more information on how to protect yourself amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, check out UCSB’s Resource Index at www.ucsb.edu/COVID-19-information/resource-index.
Rose Hayden-Smith, digital media expert, discussed with UCSB students the importance of digital media platforms during a public humanities workshop That’s the Tweet: The Use of Social Media for Academic Practice, sponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands research focus group.
Focus on Faculty: A profile of Carlos Morton, a pioneering playwright for Latino Theater, who recently wrote a play called “Trumpus Caesar,” in which he critiques outgoing president Donald Trump. Morton uses his plays to share his experience as a Latino man in the United States.
Earlier this month, the Center for Black Studies Research held a panel titled “Anti-Blackness & Technology” featuring UCLA information studies professor Safiya Umoja Noble, along with African American studies professor Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University, André Brock a scholar of Black digital media at Georgia Tech, and Charlton Mcllwain a New York University media and communications professor. Hundreds attended the virtual event.
Last week, the Center for Middle East Studies hosted a conversation with Brooklyn-based clinical psychologist Hala Alyan about culturally-sensitive and trauma-informed therapy. The conversation was moderated by UCSB communication professor Walid Afifi.
The Capps Center at UC Santa Barbara recently held a two-part virtual event, where student panelists aired their thoughts on political issues that drive the electoral decisions of young voters. The session leading up to the election was titled “What Students Want?” and the one held a week after voting aptly asked “Where Do We Go From Here?”
Why We March is a play written, directed and performed virtually, by UC Santa Barbara Theater students. The action takes place the night before the biggest fictional mass protest in the country. The play touches on heavy topics surrounding our world and the reform needed.
The art of five UC Santa Barbara students will be featured in a UC Santa Cruz’s online exhibition and webinar called “What Makes Us Human: An Art + Genomics Convergence.”
Stanford film professor Shane Denson spoke about his recent book Discorrelated Images for the Media Arts and Technology program’s Seminar series last week. He told a UCSB virtual audience that digital technologies bring us closer to the images we see in time and space and introduce an element of chance by regenerating moving images every time we see them.
UCSB Film and Media faculty members Lisa Parks and Anna Everett have launched a campaign to improve on the underrepresentation of people of color working in the news business — and featured on camera. They spoke in a recent webinar about how American media scholars can work to influence news executives to improve coverage of race issues in the news.
The 2020 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence Jesmyn Ward and IHC Director Susan Derwin discuss Ward’s exploration of trauma in her work, in a virtual presentation hosted by the “Living Democracy” series of UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Writing Program.
In a seminar hosted by Media Arts and Technology science writer and and artist Margaret Wertheim discussed the intersection of math and art in a project started with her twin sister Christine Wertheim, called Crochet Coral Reef, where they use the craft of crochet to create sculptural representations of coral reefs. The project was an artistic response to climate change and exists at the nexus of art, science, math, and community engagement.
UC Santa Barbara historian John Majewski explains how the artistic and literary creative works of Black abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s acted as a critical catalyst for the abolition of slavery, and compares the creative political action of then to that of 2020.
UCSB Theater and Dance’s program Naked Shakes staged its first 100 % Zoom production of the fall season, Immortal Longings, where each actor, theater technician and the play’s adapter and director, Irwin Appel, presented the production from various locations across the country.
New faculty member Iman Djouini shares her work and interests in the the first Art Colloquium presentation of the fall, hosted by the UC Santa Barbara’s Art Department.
After a national competition, two recent PhD graduates from UCSB have been selected as Emerging Voices Fellows by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for 2020.
This summer, the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Department of Film and Media Studies collaborate to create a new screenwriting course for students, Advanced Television Writing. The course will be broken up into two sections and will take place over the span of six weeks. The course aims to teach students how to create both a television script bible and a pilot screenplay.
Intern Noe Padilla sat down with the director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, Patrice Petro, to get a better understanding of the course.
