UCLA Classics professor Ella Haselswerdt said that the chorus from the Greek Tragedy Agamemnon gradually transforms from a distant bystander to an active participant in the play’s action, at an event sponsored by UCSB’s Classics and Theater and Dance departments. She said that this metamorphosis is “unparalleled” in surviving Greek Tragedy.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of student across the UCSB campus. Check out our video and music category winners.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across UCSB’s campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of students across the UCSB campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative student across the UCSB campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won first place in the prose category.
This spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted the annual creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. The following are the winning submissions in the Photography and Visual arts categories.
UC Santa Barbara’s annual Creativity Contest this spring honored three Poetry winners at a Give Day Ceremony in early April. The winners, alongside their work, are featured here.
UCSB’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts celebrated Give Day last week with its annual Creativity Contest. Students from all majors and years submitted works in different categories—photography, prose, poetry, visual art, music and video—for the opportunity to be published on the HFA website. The winners were honored at a luncheon award ceremony.
Nasser Rabbat, director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Middle East Studies to to speak about one of the most important Egyptian historians, Al-Maqrizi, a documentarian of the medieval Mamluk period who impacts Egyptian scholars and students still today.
Robert Weller, anthropology professor at Boston University, spoke to a UC Santa Barbara audience about how Taiwanese religious rituals use both noise and silence to mark transitions, establish rhythm, and create an emotional choreography.
