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Landscape and
nature photographer Steve Hinkley’s show
at the Faculty Club ends April 30.
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This jazz workshop with Irvin Mayfield and UCSB students is open to the public.
Free reception with registration. Call x2957 for details.
Reunion continues through April 29.
Jazz musician Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra present the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and others. Call x3535 for tickets.
Writer/performer Pamela Sneed presents a free, one-woman show that tackles political issues and racial images in films and other media. Call x8411 for details.
Free, multi-media presentations will explore the technological, economic, political, and social challenges involved in creating environmental media content for traditional and new media outlets. Details are at <www.cftnm.ucsb.edu>.
DREAM's pieces fuse the breadth of African diasporic movement (including hip-hop, house, jazz, and Afro-Caribbean dance) with rap, poetry, beatbox and live music.
Best-selling authors Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris join forces in a tour de literary comedy by reading from their newest works. Books by the authors will be available for signing. Call x3535 for tickets.
A reading of her first novel "Special Topics in Calamity Physics," a darkly comedic coming of age tale, will be part of this free event. Call x3535 for information.
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Marisha Pessl will give a free reading from her work on April 30 at 8 p.m. in Victoria Hall.
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The annual lecture, which this year is "Nobility in Mozart's Operas," will feature Bowdoin College's Mary Hunter, a specialist in 18th-century opera, gender and music, and music in film.
Cleese will introduce the Monty Python film "Life of Brian" and answer questions about this classic, controversial work following the benefit screening. Call x3535 for tickets.
Dr. Frederic C. Kass will speak about "Inherited Risk for Breast Cancer: Counseling and Testing" in his free, public lecture.
Sociologist and religious studies professor Roger Friedland presents, "Taking Sigmund Freud to the Guggenheim: The Erotics of Frank Lloyd Wright," a wide-ranging account of a man many see as the foremost architect of the 20th century.
"The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood" is a documentary in English that sketches the evolution of Latinos' screen images as well as stereotypes.
In "Letters," director Clint Eastwood offers an alternate perspective to his own World War II memoir "Flags of Our Fathers." Hundreds of letters by Japanese soldiers who fought American forces on Iwo Jima provided the dramatic mother lode for this film. English subtitles. Call x3535 for tickets.
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“Letters from Iwo Jima” dramatizes the Japanese point of view about this crucial battle of World War II when it screens on May 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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University of Chicago's Gil Stein compares the archaeological evidence for the Ubaid and Uruk expansions and suggests that they represented two fundamentally different expansionary dynamics.
Mireille Miller-Young, assistant professor of women's studies, leads a discussion on the portrayal of people of color in queer pornography.
Panelists will discuss the role sensory experiences have played in the thought and practice of selected figures in the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian mystical traditions.
The conference presents the history and critical reception of modern African art in art history and cultural studies. For more information: <www.mbanefofoundation.org/>.
University of Reading, U.K., historian Jonathan Bell considers the historical possibility that post-World War II California may have been a laboratory for an American version of European social democracy.
Sociologist N.L. Klein will examine the use and suppression of English pronouns in references to persons with non-binary genders, specifically drag queens.
Directors will be present for a post-screening discussion of the films "Glassy Eyes" and "The Arab American Road Movie."
UCSB's Center for Middle East Studies free annual conference will focus on "Al- Jezeera and the New Arab Media," with a keynote address delivered at 8
p.m. in Campbell Hall by journalist Dave Marash. See <www.cmes.ucsb.edu> for details.
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Al-Jezeera’s U.S. bureau chief Dave Marash will keynote a conference on Arab media on
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Will Shortz, a pioneer of enigmatology, has been the puzzle master for NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday" and crossword editor of The New York Times for years. Shortz's program will include brainteasers, puzzles, word games and audience participation. Call x3535 for tickets.
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Puzzle master Will Shortz gives a talk on May 6 at 4 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Author, playwright, and translator Peter Wortsman will read from his play "The Tattooed Man Tells All," which is freely adapted from interviews with aging concentration camp survivors.
New York-based artist Rajkamal Kahlon's lecture is titled, "You Said It Wouldn't Hurt: Revisualizing History Through the Grotesque."
Britt Andreatta, director of UCSB's Office of First-Year Programs, will discuss "Millennial Parents" in this free, public lecture.
Sociologist Jennifer Earl will discuss why mass arrests are not benign in her free talk, "Arrests and Political Repression: Understanding the Policing of the 2004 Republican National Convention and Its Implications."
Academy Award-nominated "Pan's Labyrinth," director Guillermo del Toro's fairy tale for adults, is set in Franco's post-civil war Spain with a parallel world where the teen heroine lives out her own dark fable. Spanish with English subtitles. Repeats at 10 p.m.
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“Pan’s Labyrinth,” an adult fairy tale from Spanish director Guillermo del Toto, screens twice on May 9, at 7:30 and 10 p.m., in Campbell Hall .
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Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas, and the Women's Center celebrate the achievements of women authors at UCSB.
Staff, faculty, and students are invited to a brown-bag lunch discussion of "the reality of racism in the queer community." Contact Kyle Richards (x5847) for details.
The first meeting of the spring quarter will begin with a reception honoring recipients of the Senate's awards for distinguished teaching and mentoring.
Vern Schramm, professor of biochemistry at Yeshiva University, speaks on "Enzymatic Transition States, Analogues and Applications."
Northeastern University political scientist Robert Gilbert's title is "Mental Illness and Presidential Performance: The Case of Calvin Coolidge."
Faculty
work on the issue of torture in their various fields will be part of a panel
discussion that will include UCSB historian Jack Talbott and Jody Enders, professor
of French and Italian and theater. They will be joined by postdoc Esther Lezra,
who will soon become an assistant professor of global and international studies
at UCSB, and UC Irvine's Gabriele Schwab, professor of English and comparative
literature.
UC Irvine's Armin Schwegler's free lecture, sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is titled "Palenque (Colombia)-Language and Culture of an Afro-Hispanic Maroon Community." Contact x7423 for details.
"Black Magic-Ritual Spanish and African Tongues in Cuba" is the subject of Armin Schwegler's free public lecture. Contact x7423 for details.
Prodigies since the age of 12, the Ganesh and Kumaresh duo have carved a niche for themselves in the world of classical Indian music. Tickets available at the door.
This panel discussion brings together top researchers and leaders, including keynote speaker Forrest Sawyer from UCTV, the national satellite channel of the UC system, as well as broadcast and digital media entrepreneurs. Go to <www.cftnm.ucsb.edu > for details.
Members of the Assyrian Student Alliance celebrate their culture through song and dance in a free presentation.
The 10th annual tournament covers two days and is open to
all levels. No cost for admission, but registration required for players. Contact ucsbnsu_bball@yahoo.com to
request the form.
The professional Chookasian Armenian Concert Ensemble perform classical, folkloric, and troubadour music. Call x2064 for tickets.
UC San Diego anthropologist Thomas E. Levy presents new archaeological data concerning the historical kings David and Solomon from Biblical Edom, one of ancient Israel's geographic neighbors in modern Jordan.
Environmentalist Paul Hawken's recent book, "Blessed Unrest," is an account of how the increase in global-scale problems has spurred the growth of worldwide environmental and social justice movements, which he describes in this free lecture.
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EXHIBITIONS
Large format landscapes from around the world are the specialty of nature photographer Steve Hinkley.
Sexually abused women brave enough to speak up produced this multimedia collection. "Courageous Recollections: Creative Works by Women Who Have Remembered Their Sexual Abuse" is the full title of the exhibition, which lists local resources to aid in the healing. Opening reception is at 4 p.m. on May 4.
An exhibition of selected works by MFA students is presented by the Department of Art. |
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