The Humanities and Fine Arts division hosted a panel of three UC Santa Barbara faculty members to discuss Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. They said the need for a designated time to pay attention to AAPI individuals’ experiences indicates a need for societal change in America.
Yuval Cohen is finishing up her final year at UCSB as President of Associated Students. As this academic year winds down, Cohen says she has learned many lessons about the power of influence and leadership.
More than a dozen UC Santa Barbara students gave moving accounts of their COVID-19 pandemic experiences at a showcase last week that marked the close of a nonfiction narrative project that received funds from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office. The Pandemic Stories Creative Nonfiction Project gave each student the opportunity to collaborate with faculty and staff to creatively express the unique struggles and triumphs they faced throughout the pandemic.
Will Hahn, a UC Santa Barbara ice hockey team alum and now a Cal State Northridge graduate film student, works as production assistant for the National Hockey League’s Los Angeles Kings. He has recently combined his passion for film and hockey by writing and directing a film about UCSB’s very own ice hockey team.
Environmental Studies Major and Indigenous Studies Minor Katie Miller is an Intern for the Walter H. Capps Center at UC Santa Barbara, which focuses on the connection between environment, society, and ethics. Miller is workign at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden to catalog and preserve plants native to California. She met with UCSB Writing student for an interview and accompanying video.
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in America’s history. Yet, for decades Tulsa residents have kept silent about the event, author and historian Scott Ellsworth said at a recent event hosted by UCSB’s Humanities Center (IHC). Ellsworth told the audience that learning about the causes and consequences of the Tulsa Race Massacre is essential in helping Tulsa, and the U.S. as a whole, confront a long history of racial violence.
We tell stories to make sense of the world, and science fiction offers a way to explore complex moral dilemmas, award-winning author Ted Chiang told a UC Santa Barbara audience last week. At a recent event jointly hosted by the UCSB Library and UCSB Arts and Lectures, Chiang discussed his science fiction writing and short story collection Exhalation, which touches on themes of freewill, memory, and technology in a futuristic world. The English Department’s Melody Jue moderated.
Shortly before the American theatrical release of Lebanese writer and director Oualid Mouaness’ film “1982,” he sat down with UC Santa Barbara chair of Global Studies Paul Amar to discuss the film and his country. Mouaness said he hopes his portrayal of the 1982 Lebanese War will humanize battle for audiences unfamiliar with the realities of fighting. It did that for UCSB student Colleen Coveney, who describes her reaction in this article.
“Toxic Seas,” a create-in event hosted earlier this month by UCSB’s Literature and the Environment Research Center, tackled ocean dumping through a creative humanities lens. Students read excerpts from Silent Spring, thinking of ways to raise awareness through mediums like poetry.
UC Santa Barbara’s annual undergraduate competition for the best short research presentation took place last week, spotlighting students who could explain their projects in three slides and under three minutes. The winner was Sriram Ramamurthy, a third-year biology-major for his work on genetic differentiation among tree species in their evolution.
The current golden age of international television offers an opportunity for more diversity on the screen, television executive Rick Rosen told a student audience at a recent Pollock Theater screening of an episode of HBO's limited series Scenes from A Marriage. It was part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s “Global” screening series.
Classical music is often typified by staples of the concert repertoire, such as Beethoven and Mozart, but musicians are pushing for change. In a recent interview, Music major and composer Mia Paul discussed the importance of diverse representation in classical music. Identifying as a woman of color composer with a background primarily in Western classical music, she looks to reinvent the way people view classical music
Theo Hirschfield, an art major in the UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies, originally planned to use the coronavirus lockdown as a mere opportunity to work on his pottery, but was able to merge his artistic passion with a career by posting his creative process to TikTok. In a matter of months, Hirschfield grew his following from 3,000 followers to over 250k, and can now support himself financially while creating art that represents his personal growth.
After a three-year hiatus, the social media storytelling project "Humans of UCSB," has made a comeback. Relaunched under the UCSB Writing Program, the project publishes student photos and interviews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, providing a unique platform for UCSB students to share their stories.
In this personal essay, undergraduate student Makayla Gomez writes about facing extreme financial burden while studying at UC Santa Barbara and how she found resources that could help her stay in college.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the third-place prose entry submitted by Charlie Prindle.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the second place prose entry submitted by David Gjerde.
