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Six one-act plays and two afternoons of solo performances show the scope of the UCSB undergraduate and graduate student playwrights' interests. Call x3535 or x7221 for details.
Theatre UCSB closes its season with Tony Kushner's drama "Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches," directed by Irwin Appel, associate professor of theater. Call x7221 or x3535 for tickets.
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"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," links the increase in global-scale problems to a spurt in growth of worldwide environmental and social justice movements, which he describes in this free lecture.
UC Berkeley neurobiologist
Lu Chen talks about "A Molecular Mechanism for Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity" for the annual Gurley Distinguished Lecture.
UCLA artist and writer Andrea Fraser will discuss her performand video work in this first free event of "I am the Medium," a yearlong series dedicated to artists who use their bodies as the medium for their work.
Through a multi-media workshop, including sound art, New Orleans-based performance artist Jose Torres Tama demonstrates art that seeks to raise awareness of class and race issues.
The Spanish National Dance
Company 2, led by artistic director Nacho Duato, combines contemporary ballet with rhythmic expression. A meet-the-artists discussion will follow. Call x3535 for tickets.
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Dancers with Spain’s National Dance Company 2 stretch their abilities as well as their bodies when they perform on Tuesday, May 15, at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall. Call x3535 for ticket information.
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This is one in a series of sales to benefit the UCSB libraries.
Workshops on Tai Chi, healthy foods, adult vaccines, and more blend with some 30 exhibitors for a free afternoon devoted to wellness.
Visiting artist Rajkamal Kahlon uses her work to visually critique the practices of repressive regimes, painting over the actual pages of Cassell's Illustrated History of India to highlight the grotesqueness of colonialism, military rule, and torture.
Cash awards will be made to the teams that crafted the best business plans, and to the two individuals who created the best business communications in this free, public reception.
"Juchitlan Queer Paradise" portrays Juchitan, a small Mexican city near the Guatemalan border, as a place where homosexuality is fully accepted. "Of Men and Gods" looks at the daily life of several openly gay Haitian men. English subtitles. This free event is part of a Chican@ / Latin@ Queer Film Festival.
In the courtyard of a house in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, the West is put on trial for the effects of globalization on African society. Call x3535 for details.
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“Bamako” dramatizes developing nations’ concerns over globalization’s impacts in a screening on Wednesday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Housing and Residential Services Director Willie Brown offers an overview of the Ocean Road housing project at Staff Assembly's May meeting.
The UCSB Physics Department will co-sponsor UC Berkeley astrophysicist Alex Filippenko's talk on "Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe." RSVP for ticket information to rsvpfilippenko@physics.ucsb.edu, or call x4567.
Authors Rabbi Michael Lerner, a self-described "spiritual progressive," and Roman Catholic social theorist Michael Novak, currently director of Social and Political Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, argue over "Religion in American Politics--Too Much or Too Little?" in the free debate. Books by both authors will be available for purchase and signing.
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From left, M. Lerner, M. Novak
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Climaxing a two-quarter-long exploration of how using torture affects institutions as well as individuals, participants in this free conference include: American University in Cairo English professor Barbara Harlow, presenting a case study of a South African female scholar assassinated for her anti-apartheid work; Vanderbilt University's English professor Colin Dayan, presenting "Due Process and Lethal Confinement;" Reed College political scientist Darius Rejali, speaking on "Torture, Democracy, and Our Future;" UCSB law and society professor Lisa Hajjar, speaking on "Lawyering for Humanity;" and Princeton Theological Seminary's George Hunsinger, explaining why "Torture Is the Ticking Time-Bomb."
A composite picture of urban life in the Middle Ages, including aspects of life within and around cities and towns, is the focus of this year's free conference. Northwestern University's Edward Muir will be the plenary speaker.
Under the direction of UCSB studio professor Nancy Kawalek, professional actors will give a free reading of the play "Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom." Call x7244 for details.
Present and former UCSB employees and children's book authors Mary Hanson, Valerie Hobbs, and Ellen Kelley join Marni McGee to host a reading and book signing benefit for Storyteller Children's Center, a pre-school for homeless and at-risk youngsters. Free admission and refreshments. Call 682-9585 for details.
Yale Law School graduate and federal law clerk Intisar Rabb has studied Islamic law in the Arab world, and will comment on the Iraqi justice system.
Beginning with "God Grew Tired of Us" and "Cautiva (Captive" the series shows two different films a night and ends on Wednesday, May 23. See story on page one for more details.
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Sudanese youths begin a long journey in “God Grew Tired of Us,” a film in the Human Rights Film Festival that screens on May 21 at 7 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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All those interested in helping with UCSB's Commencement on June 16-17 should attend this one-hour organizational meeting; also check out <www.ia.ucsb.edu/commencement/2007x/staff.shtml> for job details.
Sean Greene's talk will highlight the King/Drew Medical Center, created in the aftermath of the Watts convulsion of 1965 in south Los Angeles, as an important site in the struggles and debates over race and social citizenship.
This UCSB Affiliates Chancellor's Community Breakfast will hear "The Future of Molecular Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities" by Jeffrey W. Bode, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Call x4388.
Incorporating monologues from Aristophanes staged by Ottiliana Rolandsson, UCSB faculty Apostolos Athanassakis, Frances Hahn, Joshua Pilzer, and Dorota Dutsch, comment on performative functions of profanities in diverse cultural settings.
UCSB officials have arranged a Town Hall meeting on the issue of skateboarding on campus, with presentations from student health, public safety, the disabled community, and others. Repeats on Friday.
Author Pun Ngai, founder of a grassroots network of migrant women factory workers, will speak about China's use of a dormitory labor regime that presents new human rights challenges.
Spike Lee's film recounts the events leading to the bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Ala., in which four little African-American girls lost their lives.
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Author and labor organizer Nun Ngai will give a free illustrated lecture on China’s labor practices on May 23, at 4 p.m., in the MultiCultural Center.
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With U.S. presidential elections pending, have Americans reached the point where a person of color can be elected president? Clyde Woods, UCSB assistant professor of black studies, will lead a discussion on this question.
The UCSB Physics Department will co-sponsor Carnegie Institution astronomer Alan Dressler's talk on "The Search for Another Earth." RSVP for ticket information to rsvpdressler@physics.ucsb.edu, or call x4567.
University of Colorado political scientist Steve Chan will discuss the important historical and theoretical issues over China's recent rise.
Yale University's Erin Mansur speaks on "Averting Enforcement: Strategic Response to the threat of Environmental Regulation."
Free admission for faculty and staff for this show only.
University Holiday
Free discussion on the possibility of war with Iran, titled "If You Like the War in Iraq, You Will Love Iran!" includes faculty members Richard Falk, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Salim Yaqub.
Larry Garber, executive director of the New Israel Fund, will make the case for an honest understanding--and portrayal--of Israeli society in response to its friends and enemies.
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EXHIBITIONS
Sexually abused women speak up with this multimedia collection, "Courageous Recollections: Creative Works by Women Who Have Remembered Their Sexual Abuse." Local resources to aid the healing are also listed.
The Channel City Camera Club presents the varied work of 16 different photographers. |
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