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Bring and enjoy desserts and delicacies from around the world in this festival of sweets. To submit desserts, please email rebekah.meredith@sa.ucsb.edu.
Educator and author Caroline J. Colbert will discuss how the Internet can potentially benefit society as a whole in terms of promoting social inclusion.
Based in Montreal, Canada, this group of talented, acrobatic performers follows the leadership of acclaimed choreographers Bill Coleman and Laurence Lemieux. Call x 3535 for tickets.
This free performance features 10 young dancers and four young poets in a theatrical presentation centered on the dance style called "buck," which is the newest version of "krump" dancing.
The free workshop "Sexism: It's What's for Dinner" invites reflection of experiences with sexism.
Matthew C. Curtis, lecturer of anthropology, will present research carried out in the central highlands of Eritrea that has produced new information on the development of complex societies as early as the first millennium BC.
A leading conservative voice, this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist also is a panelist on the ABC-TV show "This Week." He will speak on "The Political Argument Today." For tickets, call x3535; for information about a private dinner with the speaker, call x3449.
Journalist Siddharth Varadarajan speaks on "Nuclear Politics: Iran and India."
Cedric J. Robinson, professor of political science and black studies, looks at race in America through the lens of early 20th-century theater and film to argue that economic, political, and cultural forces during the silent film era severely limited representation of African Americans.
Filmed on location with an indigenous cast in the crocodile-infested Arfura swamplands of northern Australia, director Rold de Heer's film emphasizes the beauty, wisdom, and humor of the ancient aboriginal culture. English subtitles.
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Australian aborigines and their culture star in “Ten Canoes,” a drama with humor that screens on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall. Call x3535 for more information.
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University holiday
University holiday
Between 1936 and 1939, around 2,800 young Americans, known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, volunteered to defend democracy during the Spanish civil war. In this documentary, the last dozen surviving American veterans tell their story. Filmmaker Anthony Geist will discuss his project. For tickets, call x3535.
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The filmmaker will attend the documentary “Souls Without Borders” on Nov. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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This year the MCC is offering free, anonymous HIV testing that requires only a quick swab in the mouth. Results can be received in minutes.
Personal and group fitness trainer Andrew Kim will present basic stretching, flexibility, and relaxation techniques at this free workshop. Limited to 25 people. Mats will be provided. For more information, call x7323.
Based on his book, "Art and Sex in Greenwich Village," writer Felice Picano will share his personal take of how gay theater developed in New York after Stonewall.
Journalist and activist Bakari Kitwana joins with sports agent Glenn Toby to discuss race in sports media in this installment of the Race Matters series.
Award-winning photographer Ashley Gilbertson tells his story of life in occupied Iraq in a free lecture, "Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot--A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War." He shares the exhilaration and terror of photographing war and the challenges of photojournalism in the age of embedded reporting.
Charles Bazerman, professor of education, will speak on the current crisis in academic publishing in a talk titled "The Piper's Tune" at this complimentary breakfast. Contact librarian Brad Eden at eden@library.ucsb.edu for more details.
Directed by Victor Bell, the choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.
This award-winning author, who has a post at the Cite' Internacionale des Arts in Paris, is also a Stegner Fellow at Stanford where she currently teaches writing. She will read from her fiction.
This documentary from Sierra Leone and Spain recounts the remarkable saga of how African Americans have retained links with their African past through the horrors of middle passage, slavery, and segregation. English and Mende with English subtitles.
Ann Bermingham, professor of history of art and architecture, will describe "Making Motion Pictures in 18th-Century London." Call x4388 for reservations.
Producer, narrator, and granddaughter of Barry Goldwater, CC Goldwater examines the life of a man known as the "father of the conservative movement." Hillary Clinton and George Will are among the film's interviewees. For tickets, call x3535.
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“Mr. Conservative,” a documentary on Sen. Barry Goldwater produced by his granddaughter, will show on Nov. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei analyzes post-war Japanese culture and avant-garde theater through the work of Terayama Shuji (1935-1983), one of post-war Japan's most gifted and controversial playwrights.
Women Studies Chair Bonnie Thornton Dill of the University of Maryland will discuss "Intersectionality as Critical Thinking about Inequality."
Paul Bambach conducts the annual fall concert. Tickets available only at the door.
This one-day, international symposium, "Science as Navigation," celebrates mathematician Leonhard Euler's 300th birthday by investigating the central role played by description, calculation, and analysis of sites and places in Euler's life and work. For details, go to <www.gss.ucsb.edu/Euler.html>.
Michel Marc Gervais conducts UCSB's stellar choirs' launch of the holiday season with "A Candlelight Christmas, featuring a collection of medieval and renaissance carols for mixed chorus, Spanish carols for female voices, and traditional Christmas carols from America and Europe with instrumental ensemble. Tickets will be available at the door.
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The all-female University Singers, above, will perform with the UCSB Chamber Choir in “A Candlelight Christmas” on Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. at St. Anthony’s Seminary Chapel. Tickets will be available at the door.
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Scott Marcus directs the ensemble while Alexandra King directs the ensemble dancers. Tickets may be purchased in advance at Associated Students Ticket Office, x2064.
Lee Hamilton, president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former co-chair of both the Iraq Study Group and the 9/11 Commission, will present his ideas in a free lecture "Time for a Course Correction: American Foreign Policy After Iraq." He is sponsored by the Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life as part of its commemoration of Walter Capps' life.
Jon Nathan directs the ensemble. Tickets available at the door only.
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Lee Hamilton speaks about U.S. foreign policy after Iraq on Dec. 2 at 3 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Gene Lucas, executive vice chancellor, and Marc Fisher, associate vice chancellor for campus design and facilities, will discuss "Vision 2025: UCSB's Long Range Development Plan." Call x4388 to reserve a place.
Derek Katz, professor of music, will speak about, and illustrate, the lieder of Franz Schubert in this free lecture. Daniel Hunter-Holly, guest baritone, will assist.
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EXHIBITIONS
Student art on queer or gender identities and political issues is on display. A reception is scheduled for today, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. in the center, 3112 Student Resource Building.
Domestic and international posters illustrate how homelessness and gentrification are major issues throughout the world.
Artist Hsiu-Zu Ho, professor of education, pays a mixed media tribute to her father, Dr. Kai-Chia Ho, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
L. Frank is a native Californian artist, basket maker, and activist from the Tongva/Achamem tribes who sees her art as furthering cultural preservation.
Six architectural firms working on projects in London's East End respond to the diversity of urban life.
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