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Tuesday, January 15
Webinar: Navigating the Job Search
12pm
Join us online for an in-depth look at the hiring process and learn what happens after you click “submit.” UC alumni working as professional recruiters and...
Vexed: The East L.A. Chicanx Punk Scene
6pm
Sal Guerena, UCSB Library Special Research Collections Exhibit/MCC Lounge: Jan 2nd – Jan 31st Opening Reception/MCC Lounge: Tues, Jan 15th, 6 PM In the...
Nadie
7pm
Nadie (2017) tells the story of love and deception in the Cuban revolution, seen through the eyes of a man who was initially mesmerized by all its...
Wednesday, January 16
Shari’a, Inshallah: Searching for the...
3pm
Religion is commonly asserted to be antithetical to the rule of law, and the rule of law an antidote to religious strife. But to what extent can religion and...
Alice Coltrane’s Negative Grammar...
3:30pm
Dr. Michael Gallope (Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota) will present a talk titled “Alice Coltrane’s Negative Grammar” on...
TALK: Alice Coltrane's Negative Grammar
3:30pm
Dr. Michael Gallope (Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota) will present a talk titled “Alice Coltrane’s Negative Grammar” on...
Crazy Rich Asians
6pm
Rachel Chu, an American-born Chinese professor of economics, has been dating her boyfriend, Nick Young, for over a year when he invites her on a trip to his...
Olé SD - Navigating the Financial Transition...
6pm
Student to Professional :: Navigating the Financial Transition The urban dictionary defines “adulting” as a way to “do grown-up things and hold...
Radical Listening: A Doctor’s Journey to...
7pm
Dr. Kinari Webb first developed the vision for Health in Harmony when studying orangutans in 1993 at Gunung Palung National Park. There she encountered not...
Thursday, January 17
Social Securities: Mark Fathi Massoud
4pm
"Embracing Shari'a: Women, Law, and Activism in Somalia" Gender equality is a key principle of human rights and political security. But how are gender...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
4pm
A professor of both French and philosophy at Columbia University, and director of the Institute of African Studies, Diagne is the 2018-2019 Distinguished...
Decolonizing HSIs: Moving from Theory to Practice
6pm
Gina A. Garcia Thurs, Jan 17th, 6 PM Presentation/MCC Theater This session will focus on moving theoretical ideas about how to best serve Latinx and other...
Friday, January 18
HAIR
8am, 8pm
Written and set in 1968, HAIR the musical chronicles the lives of Berger, Claude, Sheila, and their group of young, activist, long-haired hippie friends as...
The CITRAL/Instructional Development Workshop...
8:30am
The CITRAL/Instructional Development Workshop for New The CITRAL/Instructional Development Workshop for New and Nearly New Faculty helps faculty learn more...
HAIR
8pm
Written and set in 1968, HAIR the musical chronicles the lives of Berger, Claude, Sheila, and their group of young, activist, long-haired hippie friends as...
Saturday, January 19
HAIR
8am, 2pm, 8pm
Written and set in 1968, HAIR the musical chronicles the lives of Berger, Claude, Sheila, and their group of young, activist, long-haired hippie friends as...
HAIR
2pm, 8pm
Written and set in 1968, HAIR the musical chronicles the lives of Berger, Claude, Sheila, and their group of young, activist, long-haired hippie friends as...
HAIR
8pm
Written and set in 1968, HAIR the musical chronicles the lives of Berger, Claude, Sheila, and their group of young, activist, long-haired hippie friends as...
Sunday, January 20
HAIR
8am, 2pm, 8pm
Written and set in 1968, HAIR the musical chronicles the lives of Berger, Claude, Sheila, and their group of young, activist, long-haired hippie friends as...
HAIR
2pm, 8pm
Written and set in 1968, HAIR the musical chronicles the lives of Berger, Claude, Sheila, and their group of young, activist, long-haired hippie friends as...
HAIR
8pm
Written and set in 1968, HAIR the musical chronicles the lives of Berger, Claude, Sheila, and their group of young, activist, long-haired hippie friends as...
Tuesday, January 22
Land Hacks: Masculine Media Anxiety Disorder
7pm
LAND HACKS: Masculine Media Anxiety Disorder (or 55 Film Locations Near Bakersfield), released in 2018, retraces the migration of the Oakies to rural...
An Evening with Madeleine Albright
7:30pm
Madeleine K. Albright is a professor, author, diplomat and businesswoman who served as the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. In 1997, she was...
The Alif Series: In Conversation With The Dead
7:30pm
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto //Faluda Islam\ Tues, Jan 22nd, 7:30 PM Performance/MCC Theater Zulfikar Ali Bhutto //Faluda Islam\ is an artist, performer, zombie drag...
Wednesday, January 23
CITRAL Seminar on Ways of Thinking and...
10am
In this highly interactive seminar, faculty collaborate to identify and articulate (for undergraduates) how people within their disciplines operate: what...
Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the...
3pm
Leila Rupp, Department of Feminist Studies, will talk about the process of designing and co-hosting a podcast, "Queer America," sponsored by the Southern...
Tested
6pm
The racialized opportunity gap in America remains extreme. Nowhere is this more evident than our nation’s top public schools. In New York City, where Blacks...
Quote Unquote Collective: Mouthpiece
8pm
Created and performed by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, this two-woman theatrical performance is acclaimed for its raw honesty and insightful portrayal of...
Thursday, January 24
Albert “Skip” Rizzo
4pm
“Is Clinical Virtual Reality Ready for Primetime?” Since the mid-1990s, a significant scientific literature has evolved regarding the outcomes from the use...
The Struggle to Abolish Environmental Racism
6pm
Pam Tau Lee Thurs, Jan 24th, 6 PM Lecture/MCC Theater This talk will highlight the Asian radical imaginings of environmental justice. Rooted in 50 years of...
Beatles Revolutions: Let It Be
7pm
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s documentary Let It Be (1970) was originally intended to showcase the band’s creative process and to represent a return to...
Quote Unquote Collective: Mouthpiece
8pm
Created and performed by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, this two-woman theatrical performance is acclaimed for its raw honesty and insightful portrayal of...
Friday, January 25
Leonidas Kavakos, violin & Enrico Pace, piano
7pm
Leonidas Kavakos, a “formidable violinist” (The New York Times) and “prodigious talent, with an astonishing technique” (The Guardian, U.K.) returns to Santa...
Saturday, January 26
Guest Artist Masterclass: Enrico Pace, piano
9:30am
Presented in association with UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Department of Music will host a Guest Artist Masterclass with pianist Enrico Pace on Saturday,...
Black Violin
3pm
Classical music meets hip hop in the groundbreaking duo Black Violin and their Classical Boom Tour, blurring the lines between genre, race and gender with...
Sunday, January 27
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
7pm
Dancing the fine line between high art and high camp, the internationally-beloved Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has delighted audiences around the...
Monday, January 28
George Saunders
7:30pm
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and his surreal,...
Tuesday, January 29
Hearing the Voice and the Role of Creative...
4pm
Hearing the Voice is a large, interdisciplinary project at Durham University funded by the Wellcome Trust and focused on the phenomenon of voice hearing....
Sangita Shresthova
6pm
Sangita Shresthova "Civic Imagination: Roadmaps, Stories, Research and Calls to Action" Tues, Jan 29th, 6 PM Lecture/MCC Theater Drawing on the work of the...
Point of No Return
7pm
Soaring at 28,000 feet without a drop of fuel, nothing is predictable: not the weather, not the technology, and certainly not the fate of a man, alone for...
Martha Redbone and The Roots Band Project
8pm
Charismatic songstress Martha Redbone is one of the most vital voices in American roots music. Embodying her gospel-singing father’s voice and her...
Wednesday, January 30
CITRAL Seminar on Ways of Thinking and...
10am
In this highly interactive seminar, faculty collaborate to identify and articulate (for undergraduates) how people within their disciplines operate: what...
CISM IN THE ARCHIVE
3:30pm
CISM in the Archive presents “Re-collecting the Global South” with sound artist Robert Millis and filmmaker Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies...
Hailing Cesar
6pm
The grandson of civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, Eduardo Chavez, embarks on a journey to better understand his grandfather’s legacy. Like his father and...
Thursday, January 31
Social Securities: Shaping Community Futures...
4pm
Elizabeth Timme is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of LA-Más, a non-profit urban design organization based in Los Angeles that helps lower-income and...
Ole LA New Year Kick Off
6pm
***The date has been changed to January 31, 2019*** Gauchos, Please join us for a night of cocktails and networking with fellow Gauchos to kick off the New...
An Evening of Poetry with Kavi Ade
7:30pm
Kavi Ade’s poetry is a lamentation, a leaning in to what haunts the spirit of a Black Trans Queer body. With poems that are deeply personal, while...
Tracy K. Smith
7:30pm
An Evening with the U.S. Poet Laureate As the 52nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith is on a mission to bring poetry to the masses, showing how poetry can...
Friday, February 1
Designing Effective Rubrics: A CITRAL...
1:30pm
Rubrics can be useful for a variety of assessment purposes, whether within a program or within a course. This workshop will provide a broad overview of...
Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant
8pm
Renaissance man, style icon, social activist, bon viveur – Alan Cumming is many things to many people. The versatile actor, singer and author is well known...
UCSB Faculty Artist Recital: Paul Berkowitz, piano
8pm
The UCSB Department of Music will present a recital featuring faculty member and pianist Paul Berkowitz on Friday, February 1, 2019 at 8 pm in Lotte Lehmann...
Saturday, February 2
Phở King
5pm
Phở King is an annual male pageant hosted by UCSB’s Vietnamese Student Association since 2001. The original purpose of Phở King was to present an image of...
Wednesday, February 6
CITRAL Seminar on Ways of Thinking and...
10am
In this highly interactive seminar, faculty collaborate to identify and articulate (for undergraduates) how people within their disciplines operate: what...
The Raw and the Husky: Vocal Qualia and Gender...
3:30pm
Dr. Amanda Weidman (Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College) will present a talk titled “The Raw and the Husky: Vocal Qualia and Gender Politics in Post-Millennium...
America to Me (Episodes 1 and 2)
6pm
This documentary series presents an exclusive look into an academic year at suburban Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High Schools. Students, teachers,...
Thursday, February 7
“’Begin Again’: Fighting for Democracy in the...
6pm
The talk begins with a reflection on James Baldwin’s formulation in Just Above My Head. “Responsibility is not lost; it is abdicated. If one refuses...
The 7 Fingers (Les 7 Doigts): Réversible
7pm
Montreal’s award-winning contemporary circus troupe presents its latest creation, a playful and poignant exploration of the role ancestors play in the...
Saturday, February 9
Kodo One Earth Tour 2019: Evolution
7pm
Japan’s legendary drum ensemble Kodo is the world’s foremost professional taiko company. Exploring the limitless possibilities of the Japanese taiko drum,...
Tuesday, February 12
Life in America as an Undocumented Immigrant
6pm
Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and a leading voice for the human rights of immigrants. His memoir,...
Beatles Revolutions: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
7pm
Set against the backdrop of Beatlemania, I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) centers on the comical quest of six New Jersey teens to see the Beatles at their 1964...
Danish String Quartet
7pm
Last Leaf: A Nordic Folk Program Comprised of fierce friends who have been playing together since childhood, the Danish String Quartet has become the...
Wednesday, February 13
Teaching Source, Data, or Evidence Use (and...
2:30pm
Learning to incorporate and cite sources (aka “research”) in writing can be one of most important part of any students’ work in a course. But faculty (and...
PROFILED
6pm
This powerful documentary knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latino youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and...
Danish String Quartet
7pm
Comprised of fierce friends who have been playing together since childhood, the Danish String Quartet has become the darling of A&L’s program for its...