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“Crafting a
Modern World,” a new exhibit based on architectural
ideas by a spousal team who were inspired by Japanese
designs like this studio in Tokyo, will open at the
University Art Museum on Jan. 17.
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A free class for faculty and staff (students taking the course for credit must pay), "The Silk Road: Sights, Sounds, and Stories" is a quarter-long sampling of the cultural exchanges fostered by the ancient web of trade routes between China and the lands of the Mediterranean Sea known as the Silk Road. Continues on Tuesdays and Thursdays through March 15.
Staff Assembly hosts a free discussion on what you would like to know about diabetes, but were afraid to ask. The talk is led by Betsy Reynolds, a registered dietician working at Student Health Services.
Composer/violinist Todd Reynolds guest lectures at this College of Creative Studies class.
Filmmaker James Longley's prize-winning documentary examines Iraqi life in wartime and offers seldom depicted perspectives from Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. Call x3535 for tickets.
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The lives of common Iraqis in wartime is framed in compassionate perspective in documentarian James Longley’s “Iraq in Fragments,” which plays on Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall. Call x3535 for ticket information.
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Musicians Todd Reynolds and Luke DuBois offer a free pre-concert talk about their collaborations and the Silk Road Project. Repeats
on Friday at 8 p.m.
UCSB hosts Utah Valley State.
Joe Mathews, Los Angeles Times reporter and author of "The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy," discusses the Governor's plans for a "bipartisan" term in which he and legislative leaders produce reforms that could be a model for the rest of the nation. Copies of Mathews' book will be available for signing. Call x2317 for details.
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Reporter Joe Mathews discusses his new book about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Jan. 11 at
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Musicians/dancers Todd Reynolds and Luke DuBois speak about "Technology for the Performing Artist."
Visiting lecturer Daniel Schacter's free lecture, "Memory and the Mind: How We Construct True, False, and Imaginary Events," is hosted by the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind.
Eduardo Villa, internationally known tenor who has performed with leading opera companies, returns to Santa Barbara in a benefit concert for the UCSB Opera Theatre and the Diabetes Resource Center of Santa Barbara County. Villa will perform a program of well-known arias and art songs accompanied by Maestro Frank Fetta. Tickets can be purchased at the Lobero Theatre Box Office, 963-0761, or for further information call the Diabetes Resource Center, 687-5586.
UCSB hosts UC Davis.
Three teen-agers from a Mohawk reservation are the subject of Tracey Deer's documentary. They tackle issues of identity and culture with humor in this free screening.
UCSB hosts UC Davis.
Today is the entry deadline for the second annual science/technology play writing competition sponsored by UCSB's Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute. See <www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/stage> for details.
Brian Fagan, professor emeritus of anthropology, will guide his audience on an adventure that spans 1,500 years, revolves around fish in Christian belief, and changed history in this free lecture.
A young woman's coming of age story is told by way of the complications faced in her family's preparation for the traditional ceremony celebrating her 15th birthday and passage into womanhood. Ticket information at x3535.
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Quinceañera, the tale of a young woman’s coming of age, screens on Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall. Tickets, x3535.
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Sociologist Miguel Angel Centeño, director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, speaks on "Neoliberalism and the Good Society in Latin America."
The East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group presents Orna Naftali in a free talk on "Re-forming the Child: Childhood, Citizenship, and Subjectivity in Post-Mao China."
UCSB hosts UCLA.
A respected professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, Robert Alter has recently released a translation of the Torah, titled "The Five Books of Moses." It has received praise from reviewers. Noted for his dedication to preserving the nuances of the Hebrew language, Alter 's free lecture will likely cover studies on the Bible, literary modernism, and contemporary Hebrew literature. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sound artist John Hopkins explores creativity at the intersection of body and sound in his free lecture "Tech-no-madic Pathways: Networks and Sonic Energy."
The staff of the University Art Museum will throw a free, public reception in honor of two exhibits, "Crafting a Modern World" and "Sounds of the Silk Road."
Longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and professor of journalism at UC Berkeley, Mark Danner, will speak on "Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human Rights, and the War on Terror." Danner will discuss the United States' undeclared State of Emergency and ask, "When should it come to an end?"
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Author Mark Danner will speak about torture and human rights on Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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UCSB hosts Cal Poly.
UC Berkeley's John Lie, professor and dean of international studies, will speak on ethnic identity and popular culture in "Postcolonial Korea in Postwar Japan."
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EXHIBITIONS
"Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond," shows a unique husband and wife design collaboration in Japan and the United States between 1921 and 1973. The Raymonds created humane, modern environments, landscapes, furnishings, rugs, and textiles--inspired by their connections with Japan's art and craft traditions. Free admission.
Featuring 22 types of musical instruments, this sample from UCSB's Eichheim Collection represents the countries associated with trade routes that connected China to the Mediterranean for hundreds of years. The exhibition is presented as part of campuswide programming on the Silk Road, which culminates in cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project residency March
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