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Johan Galtung, founder of the International Peace Institute
in Oslo, will offer a free lecture on “U.S.A.: A Declining
Empire?”
Stacy Peralta, director of the skateboarding movie “Dogtown
and Z-Boys,” turns his attention to big-wave surfers on
Oahu’s North Shore and at Mavericks near San Francisco.
Call x3535 for tickets.
Gabriel Rei-Doval, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the
University of Wisconsin, will discuss “Social Response,
Galician Style?: The Aftermath of the ‘Prestige’
Disaster.”
Malcom Purkey, artistic director of South Africa’s Market
Theatre, will discuss “South African Theater in Post-Apartheid
Democracy.”
Classical Guitar Ensemble
8 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall
John Dearman directs the ensemble. Tickets at the door.
UCSB hosts Michigan.
A period drama of repressed love and thwarted destiny, this
subtle film is set in a bombed-out Chinese village in 1946.
English subtitles.
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| "Springtime in a Small Town"
Shows on Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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11:30 a.m., Women’s Center
UCSB alumna Pat Chamberlin-Calamar, author of two children’s
books about Alaska, will sing from “Alaska’s Twelve
Days of Summer,” a preschool counting book she wrote.
For details, call x3778.
Visiting scholar Vincent L. Wimbush, director of Claremont Graduate
University’s Institute for Signifying Scriptures, will
discuss “Excavating Darkness: African Americans, Scriptures,
and the Quest for Social Memory.”
Jon Nathan directs the ensemble. Tickets at the door.
This film explores the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic through
the eyes of an adult orphan who lost her mother to AIDS in 1996.
Get together with other campus staff and discuss books people
are reading. Call x8854 for details.
Faculty and Staff
1535 Santa Barbara St.
Joseph Fanvu, interim director, leads the UCSB Faculty and Staff
Choir and the University Singers in a program.
Photographer Colleen McDannell discusses her book, “Picturing
Faith: Photography from the Great Depression,” which is
displayed at the Karpeles Library.
Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik, codirector of the UCSB Neuroscience
Research Institute, will discuss “Alzheimer’s Disease
in the Crosshairs: Harnessing the New Biology.” Call x4388
for reservations.
Results of a campus audit by the Education for Sustainable Living
Program will be discussed with the aim of improving sustainability
practices in purchasing.
UCSB hosts Purdue.
Victor Bell directs the group in traditional and contemporary
works. Tickets at the door.
This English a cappella ensemble will perform a new holiday
program, featuring a Christmas mass by Palestrina. Tickets include
a reception with the artists. Call x3535 for details.
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| The Tallis Scholars will sing
on Dec. 4 at 3 and 5 p.m. in Montecito’s All Saints
by the Sea Episcopal Church.
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UCSB hosts Oregon State.
Angiogenesis pioneer Dr. Judah Folkman will discuss blood vessel
growth as a key target in cancer treatment. A reception will
follow. RSVP to x5819.
The campus Professional Women’s Association hosts a festive,
holiday cookie exchange. Contact Michele (x3787) or Mary Rae
(x3776).
These singers return to Santa Barbara after their sold-out 2003
concert and will perform songs of the holiday season in their
gospel-meets-the-blues style.
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| The famed blind gospel and blues
ensemble, Blind Boys of Alabama, present a concert in
Santa Barbara Junior High School’s restored Majorie
Luke Theatre on Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. Ticket information
is at x3535.
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Theologian Harvey Cox, professor of divinity at the Harvard
Divinity School, discusses and signs his new book, “When
Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today.”
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EXHIBITIONS
A comparison of 20th and 21st century women’s
paintings of trees demonstrates how art imitates life over time.
The MCC and Chicana and Chicano Studies
Department host an exhibition of José Antonio Burciága’s
art.
UCSB alumnus and Dos Pueblos High art teacher
Kevin Gleason displays “Cycles, Animated and Annotated.”
Featured are period photographs, sketches, and watercolors created
by architect Lutah Maria Riggs during a tour of Mexico in the
1920s. |
Moral
Choices Talk