Writng student Beth Guluk Isensee offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Philosophy Department’s Ethics Bowl team, in which her roommate Natalie McCosker personifies the team’s motivation and dedication and they train for regional and national competitions.
"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.
Cesar Favila, a UCLA musicologist who specializes in Central America, recounted moving stories of nuns who sang in convents in Mexico in the 1600s as he shared his latest research with a UC Santa Barbara audience last week.
Theater major Anabel Costa describes how after a lifetime of dance she lost her passion and then found it again after taking a break. Costa is enrolled once again in dance courses at UC Santa Barbara and shares here experience with other creatives in this personal essay.
On Sunday, carillonist and Music Department Lecturer Wesley Arai performed a carillon recital to celebrate Storke Tower’s 50th anniversary. In an interview, Arai discussed the his experience as a carillon master. Dean John Majewski opened the event with remarks about the significance of Storke Tower and its carilion in campus history and culture.
Fourth-year Communication student Madison Terry discusses how a Magazine Writing course in UC Santa Barbara’s Writing Program shifted her outlook on the written word and inspired her interest in pursuing professional writing.
In his presentation last week entitled Being African, Being Contemporary, UC Santa Barbara History of Art and Architecture professor Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie used both historic and contemporary images to map the journey of African art and its representations, showing its influence on the art of our world today.
Kate McDonald, A UC Santa Barbara Modern East Asian History professor, has received a $100,000 federal grant to improve and expand her new website “Bodies and Structures: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History.” McDonald discussed in an interview this new digital platform for researching and teaching histories of Japan and other cultures in the region.
The Carsey-Wolf Center opened its new “Special Effects” series this week with a screening of the 2015 post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max: Fury Road, followed by discussion that covered everything from stunts, to camera technologies, to gender politics. Wizard of Oz screens Saturday, October 5.
