93106 Calendar: April 26 to May 10

Taken from the April 26 issue of 93106

MONDAY 26

David Barsamian, founder and director of Alternative Radio, will discuss "Media, Propaganda, and War, or the More You Watch, the Less You Know."

TUESDAY 27

Oxford University's Ian Michael speaks about "Toledo, City of Three Faiths, and the Survival of Mozarabic Culture There."

Dissertation Fellow Jennifer Najera will discuss "Writing Community: Tracing Social Relations between Mexicans and Anglos in La Feria, Texas."

A critical discussion will dissect implementation of the laws.

Alumnus Edward T. Linenthal, who received his Ph.D. in religious studies and is currently a Capps Visiting Professor, will discuss "Terrorism and Its Aftermath: Oklahoma City and September 11."

WEDNESDAY 28

Psychiatrist Peter Brill, founder of the Third Age Foundation of Santa Barbara, will discuss the concept of a "third age," when family people begin to seek new, more personal goals.

The Lemon Pickers string band will perform.

Utah State University's Jim Evans is the guest speaker.

Barnard University anthropologist Nadia Abu-El Hajj discusses "Genealogical Quests: Question of Identity at the Crossroads of the Historical and Natural Sciences."

Set just before the fall of Saigon in 1975, "Green Dragon" follows the lives of Vietnamese refugees who have been sent to a military base in California.

UCSB Affiliates present Mark Juergensmeyer, director of the Global and International Studies Program, who will discuss "Global Religions, an Introduction." Call x4388 for reservations.

Eric Schlosser, whose first book was the best-selling "Fast Food Nation," will examine underground economies, such as the worlds of illegal drugs, porn, and illegal immigration, based on his new book, "Reefer Madness."

THURSDAY 29

Boston University's Qianshen Bai talks on Chinese writing.

Filmmaker and activist Grace Poore will discuss her documentary about the universal crime of incestuous sexual abuse.

FRIDAY 30

Early music performers Anonymous 4 will conduct a free forum to explore their performance practices and careers.

On its farewell tour, the group will perform "The Origin of Fire: Music and Visions of Hildegard of Bingen."

Early music specialists Anonymous 4 (from left, Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner, and Johanna Maria Rose) perform on Friday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in Santa Barbara's United Methodist Church. Call x3535 for tickets.

Palestinian singer Woroud sings modern and traditional Arabic songs. Call x3535 for tickets.

Palestinian singer Woroud performs on Friday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in the MultiCultural Center Theater.

SATURDAY 1

Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month kicks off with Pilipino Culture Night.

SUNDAY 2

John Dearman directs members of the UCSB Classical Guitar Ensemble in various works.

MONDAY 3

Vinton Cerf, one of the co-fathers of the Internet, will speak on the future of the Internet. Free.

"Torture and the Future" is law and society Associate Professor Lisa Hajjar's topic.

Tonia Shimin, professor of dramatic art, and Wendy Popadynetz, lecturer in film studies, present "Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance," a film portrait of an influential artist. Also featured is "Book of Days," set in the preserved, walled city of Cordes, France, during the plague year of 1350.

TUESDAY 4

Dissertation Fellow Chikako Takeshita discusses the politics of the intrauterine contraceptive device and the science.

WEDNESDAY 5

The UCSB Horn Ensemble performs literature from the Renaissance to modern Jazz.

Veit Erlmann, University of Texas at Austin, is a guest speaker in an event hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Music.

Student presenters will be featured.

The story of Georgina Beyer—a former sex worker of Maori descent and perhaps the first transsexual in the world to be elected to a national office—includes her duties as a member of New Zealand's Parliament.

A young Egyptian man emerges from an asylum and finds Cairo a different world of corruption and darkness in this 1993 film.

MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, dancer, and director. Monk will discuss ideas of home, the other, creativity, and the global soul in a conversation with writer and part-time local resident Pico Iyer, whose latest book is "Sun After Dark."


Composer/dancer Meredith Monk, left, and author Pico Iyer discuss various ideas on May 5 at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall.

THURSDAY 6

Patricia Hill Collins of the University of Cincinnati talks about intellectual activism and feminist thought by women of color in response to the "new" racism perpetrated by images of black sexuality.

FRIDAY 7

Elementary School Mexico-based street mime Sergio Garcia Perez will entertain children and adults, performing sketches such as "El Torero" and "La Noche de Baile."

SUNDAY 9

Vandana Shiva is the founding director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in New Delhi. She will discuss "Planting Seeds for Change: Women's Struggle against Corporate Control of Biodiversity."

MONDAY 10

Darieck Scott, assistant professor of English with an emphasis in African-American literature, will discuss "The Sexual Scene of Slavery: Notes on Black (Male) Subjectivity and Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'."

EXHIBITIONS

Dinh Q. Lê, a former UCSB art student, produces hand-woven photographic works using a technique he learned while weaving grass mats with his aunt in Vietnam.

Korean born artist Jin Soo Kim explores themes of movement and time through physical sculpture and through sounds.

Artists examine the impact technology has in shaping gender concepts and if gender itself has the ability to shape technology.

Artist Jack N. Mohr is featured in an exhibition of his mixed media works.

The work of William Jones, researcher-in-residence at the Center for Black Studies, is featured in "From Diaspora to the Digital: Visualizing Tradition through New media."

In a celebration of color and consciousness, the MCC presents the second annual art exhibit of student works, informed by race, class, gender or sexual orientation.

ONGOING

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