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Local photographer Rod Rolle calls this image of a Santa Maria field worker and her child "Strawberry Fields." It is part of a series, titled "Community," that "takes an intimate look at life," he says, with pictures from locations in Santa Barbara County, Charlotte, N.C., Beaufort, S.C., and Patem, Mexico. It will be displayed in the front office of the MultiCultural Center through June.
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Visiting Distinguished Fellow Daniel Dennett will speak on "The Evolution of 'Why'" in a free lecture.
Q&A about CIGNA Choice Fund with UCSB Health Care Facilitator Laura Morgan.
UCSB's chapter of EWB will be raising funds, and elbows, for projects in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. See <www.engineering.ucsb.edu/ ewb-ucsb/ewb/welcome/welcome.html> for more details.
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Registration ends today for an Engineers Without Borders benefit dinner and discussion of worldwide water issues with UCSB hydrologist Thomas Dunne, above, on April 7 at the Spiritland Bistro.
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The Coastal Housing Partnership offers free educational seminars to de-mystify the process of getting a loan to buy a home. Call 969-1025 or go to <www.coastalhousing.org/employees_education.htm> to register and get the location.
UCSB students and faculty present action-promoting short films and videos about environmental issues and coastal protection created for local governmental agencies. A Q&A will follow. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
Pulitzer-Prize winning author and foreign policy scholar Samantha Power is best known for her work with human rights and genocide. In a free lecture she will discuss her new book "Chasing the Flame," the extraordinary life of a United Nations diplomat who worked for decades to resolve global conflicts in major war zones before he was killed in Iraq. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha
Power will give a free talk about UN diplomat Sergio Viera de Mello and
her biography about him on Tuesday, March 18, at 8 p.m. at the Unitarian
Society.
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Academic Senate information technology experts Andy Satomi and Vince Nievares offer free advice on "Safe Home Computing: Keeping Your Wireless Network Healthy and Humming."
Registration and liability waiver forms for the April 4 UCSB Children's Day program are due today. Go to <childcare.sa.ucsb.edu/childrensday> for activities and details of the annual event.
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Last year more than 100 children enjoyed educational games and visits to displays, such as this transparent holding tank in the Marine Science Institute’s REEF exhibit, during UCSB Children’s Day. Online signups are now underway for the April 4 activities at .
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Registration is due today for the EWB's April 7 organic dinner and discussion with UCSB hydrologist Thomas Dunne at Spiritland Bistro. To reserve, contact Carolyn Ching at cching@bren.ucsb.edu.
UCSB hosts St. Mary's.
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to apply borderlands theories and concepts to the ancient world. The keynote address by James F. Brooks of the School of American Research is "The Women and Maidens You May Take, the Men and Old Women You May Kill: Gender, Purity and Prophetic Violence in Indigenous and Colonial Borderlands." Go to <www.ihc.ucsb.edu/research/borderlands-conference.html> for details.
UCSB hosts St. Mary's.
UCSB hosts Dartmouth.
The Subaltern-Popular Workshop, a UC multi-campus research group, hosts an international conference titled, "Democracy by Force?" in Cairo, Egypt, from March 24-27. Topics will include the limits of liberal democracy, contending forms of popular political mobilization and cultures of democracy, and the role of visual and spatial culture and media in popular politics. See <www.ihc.ucsb.edu/subaltern> for more information.
UCSB hosts UCLA.
UCSB hosts Harvard.
UCSB hosts Westmont.
UCSB hosts Cal Baptist.
UCSB hosts Boise State.
Online registration opens <www.sustainability.calpoly.edu> for the 7th Annual UC/CSU/CCC conference on best college sustainability practices, which runs from July 31 to Aug. 3. Check for discounts.
A live recording of NPR's nationally broadcast quiz program "Wait, Wait…Don't Tell Me" is sold out.
UCSB hosts Cal State Northridge.
UCSB hosts Cal State Northridge.
UCSB hosts San Diego State.
Pushcart Prize-winner Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" chronicles a year traveling around the world in search of personal restoration after a difficult divorce. For tickets, call x3535; for details on an A&L fundraising dinner, call x3449.
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Author Elizabeth Gilbert will give a talk on March 30 at 4 p.m. in Campbell Hall.
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Local friends and colleagues of the late John Morgan Cowles will share their memories and stories over the barbeque pit. E-mail Ann Hefferman (ann@library.ucsb.edu) with any questions.
Q&A about Blue Cross Plus with UCSB Health Care Facilitator Laura Morgan.
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EXHIBITIONS
Sculptor David Avalos comments on immigration policy.
In "Space to Roam, Explore, and Trespass," Adda Birnir documents the Rockaways peninsula of New York.
A selection of avant-garde art publisher Gunnar A. Kaldewey's books is on display.
Landscape artist and UCSB alumna Laurel Mines has won many first-place awards, and regularly donates to preservation of local open spaces.
A three-screen film meditation on West Africa as a cultural crossroads, "Fantôme Afrique" uses original footage of actors in modern Burkina Faso along with historical films and contemporary African cinema.
Photos answering the question "What's Sacred?" are on exhibition.
Rod Rolle's documentary photography of people at work, play, and socializing illustrates the themes of community.
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