Esteemed scholar and historian Daina Ramey Berry joins the campus as new dean of humanities and fine arts
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Gift establishes Creative Computing Initiative to train humanities students in programming, technical skills -
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant aims to increase student persistence and success in the humanities -
Gift from author T.A. Barron establishes endowed fund for environmental leadership in the humanities -
Unique correspondence course brings study of the humanities to incarcerated adults -
UCSB joins a national project to study career pathways for Ph.D. students -
The UCSB Department of Music hits all the right notes -
Grant will allow UCSB to explore ways to tweak graduate programs in the humanities for a changing job market -
UCSB scholar Alan Liu’s 4Humanities initiative sees success with new student contest -
New English course examines climate change debate by analyzing popular narratives on all sides of the argument. -
New essay collection from Mideast scholar Dwight Reynolds offers comprehensive examination of Arab culture today -
Campus Sustainability Champion Ken Hiltner is putting his award to work with the Environmental Humanities Initiative -
Journal articles examine the roles of intellectuals in ideologies related to social and political order -
When a private collector brought a Buddha statue to the Drents Museum in the Netherlands for restoration, something amazing was discovered.
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The Writer-in-Residence Series enables writing and literature students to engage with masters of the craft -
The institute will be a campus center for China studies and education about China -
A complex history includes controversy, charges of cultural imperialism and occasional violence -
UCSB undergraduates get a lesson in how to make the most of their liberal arts degrees -
Painter Francesco Buoneri was a close follower of Michelangelo Caravaggio -
English scholar publishes volume of selected works by Hungarian poet and Holocaust victim Miklós Radnóti -
With journals and contemporary accounts as her guides, Ann Plane delves into the dreams of settlers and Native Americans -
New book documents the evolution of forensic engineering and use of media to record and reconstruct accidents -
Majewski has served as associate dean of humanities and fine arts for the last two years and was a member of the campus’s Program Review Panel for five years -
Things creating an illusion and things as an illusion are at the heart of a new book by Maurizia Boscagli -
The summer program brings a group of boys from Los Prietos Boys Camp to UCSB to produce and perform their own version of Homer’s “Odyssey.” -
The Museo Capitolino served as the model for such institutions as we know them today -
The award honors scholars, writers and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields -
Over the past 10 years, more than 100 UCSB students have interned with nonprofit organizations in the Santa Barbara area -
Award-winning book analyzes the communication systems that shaped events — and sensibilities — in the period leading up to American Revolution -
The most pressing issue, experts say, is to treat broadband as a common carrier that requires equal access among users -
Examining the past, present and potential future of computer-generated imagery — and academia's unsung role in filmmaking -
Through the online education project iCivics, Sandra Day O'Connor has made civics education her top priority -
New book by Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies chronicles her journey across America -
Winner of a 2013 Academy Award in Technical Achievement, Theodore Kim's talk will look at the past, and toward the future, of CGI -
Second and third generations experience a separate but related event, and must find a way to live with the history -
Huang is author of 'Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History' -
For the 2014 Argyropoulos Lecture in Hellenic Studies, classicist and Byzantine art historian Robin Cormack will examine the work of Praxiteles, a Greek painter and sculptor of the 4th-century BC, alongside that of Angelos Akotantos,...
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New series will bring creative writers, humanities scholars, journalists and filmmakers to UCSB -
Antonia Rigaud, attachée culturelle adjointe of the French Consulate in Los Angeles presided over a ceremony March 13 formally naming Cynthia Brown (above), a professor in UCSB's Department of French and Italian, Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre...
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Two hundred and twenty-five years ago, James Madison, statesman, political theorist and future fourth president of the United States, penned a series of amendments — 17 in all — designed to guarantee each citizen’s personal freedoms and to limit...
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Sixty-two years ago today, a group of students from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh (then known as East Pakistan) were killed as they participated in the Bengali Language Movement protests.
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Sara Poot-Herrera, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and director of UC-Mexicanistas at UC Santa Barbara, has been elected a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Language, a cultural organization that aims to maintain the purity of...
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Continuing its yearlong series “The Value of Care,” UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center hosts a talk by preacher Thomas G. Long and funeral director Thomas Lynch on Thursday, Feb. 6.
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Fifty years ago Lyndon B. Johnson gave his historic State of the Union address declaring an “unconditional war on poverty.” -
The five artists, all of the highest level, will perform, demonstrate and explain their respective expertise and address the topic of handing down the knowledge and methods their work encompasses -
In 1880, a group of Italy’s leading writers and intellectuals met in Turin to debate — over the course of many evenings and many glasses of Nebbiolo — the role of wine in human life, past and present.
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Literary historian receives prestigious honor from French government -
Critical Issues in America Series examines President Lyndon B. Johnson's vision for a Great Society that would seek an end to poverty and racial injustice -
In her new book, “The Signifying Eye,” professor of English Candace Waid shows author William Faulkner’s art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Reading his work next to writers including Edith Wharton and Willa... -
In two recently published books, Lichtenstein, the MacArthur Foundation Professor in History and director of the campus's Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, helps animate the public discourse on a set of vital contemporary issues... -
United States involvement in the Vietnam War was reaching its peak at about the same time Tim O'Brien graduated from Macalester College. Opposed to the military conflict, he nonetheless reported for duty as required by his local draft board.
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Born into the thriving Greek community in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1863, poet Constantine Cavafy is considered one of the most influential and beloved Greek literary voices of the 20th century.
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At one time a reviled commodity –– and banned in 1919 as part of Prohibition –– beer has become a familiar presence in American life. Just try to imagine a picnic, party, or sporting event without the ubiquitous bottle, can or mug in hand.
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When the British East India Company began its explorations in India, the subcontinent captured the attention and the imagination of the people back home.
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Known for his experimental style, which often ran toward stream-of-consciousness, even punctuation-free prose, revered American author William Faulkner is a notoriously tough read.
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Three remarkable graduating seniors at UC Santa Barbara have been named winners of the university's top awards for their scholastic achievement, their extraordinary service to the university and the community, and their personal courage and...
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At the 2013 South by Southwest conference in Austin, Tex., entrepreneur and technology designer Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX, showed a packed, rapt crowd video of his latter company's newest project: a reusable rocket...
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Bubonic Plague. Yellow Fever. Cholera. H.I.V. and AIDS. For thousands of years, humans have faced devastating epidemics that suddenly kill millions and cause enormous social and economic disruption.
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Ann Taves, professor of religious studies at UC Santa Barbara, has received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013.
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When comparative literature professor Susan Derwin taught her first writing workshop for student veterans at UC Santa Barbara, only three people signed up. Undaunted, she offered it again –– and again, and again.
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Anthony Barbieri-Low always wanted to be an Egyptologist, and now, with a $238,700 New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W.
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"Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea" has garnered Suk-Young Kim the James Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies -
For her dissertation project, Sophia Rochmes, a doctoral student in the history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is researching 15th-century manuscripts in ducal and noble libraries of present-day France and Belgium.
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With the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as its new leader, the Roman Catholic Church has achieved a number of firsts: Pope Francis I, as Bergoglio is now known, is the first pontiff from Latin America –– and the Americas, in general; he is...
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There is little doubt that the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared freedom for the millions of slaves in the Confederate States, advanced the cause of abolition.
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"Darkening Mirrors" examines ways in which African Americans imagined themselves as empowered, modern citizens and transnational actors -
You wouldn't want to miss the forest for its trees if you're worried about woods at large, but what if the trees themselves are your central concern?
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From humble beginnings in an undergraduate art history seminar at UC Santa Barbara, a small exhibition of 17th-century Chinese paintings blossomed into a collaboration between UCSB and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art that showcases nearly 60...
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Japan's religion and culture will be the focus of a three-day conference at UC Santa Barbara to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the campus's International Shinto Foundation (ISF) Chair in Shinto Studies.
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"The Sawyer Seminars grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is an indication of the exceptional interdisciplinary research taking place on our campus," said UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang.
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In an ancient tomb in China's Hubei Province, archeologists discovered a basket of medical, mathematical, and legal texts that date back to the late third and early second centuries B.C.
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With a new book that formalizes and interprets a collection of indigenous African art owned by an African collector, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, a professor of history of art and architecture at UC Santa Barbara, is changing the way African art...
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If the poet William Wordsworth belonged to LinkedIn, his network might include colleagues Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey; his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth; and his former classmate, Robert James.
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A pilot project at UC Santa Barbara has 15 Carpinteria High School students conducting original linguistics research in their own community.
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Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and an internationally recognized authority on Japanese-Russian relations, will give UCSB's 2010 Faculty Research Lecture on Friday, October 29, at 3:30 p.m.
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A new five-volume series of works by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges has been published by Penguin Classics under the general editorship of Suzanne Jill Levine, a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese who teaches Latin...
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Christopher McMahon, a professor of philosophy at UC Santa Barbara, has a new take on disagreements –– particularly those that are political in nature.
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Galileo Galilei is revered as the father of modern science, a true Renaissance man who made important discoveries in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and natural philosophy.
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The University Library at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded a second National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to further develop an online encyclopedia of all the recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company (which later became...
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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has awarded Leandra Zarnow, a doctoral candidate in history and feminist studies at UC Santa Barbara, a 2009 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies and a Charlotte W.
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A series of lectures and events sponsored by UC Santa Barbara will take place on campus and in downtown Santa Barbara in anticipation of the Dalai Lama's visit to UCSB on April 24, 2009.
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In conjunction with the fourth visit to UC Santa Barbara by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the University Art Museum will present an exclusive exhibition of historic art of the Himalayas.
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During the period from 1950 to 1965, Ben Enwonwu was the most famous artist of African ancestry anywhere in the world.
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will make a historic fourth visit to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in April 2009 for two public lectures.
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In 1961, newly graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in Far Eastern languages, John Nathan hopped a Japan Airlines flight to Tokyo where he planned to study Japanese literature.
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Carmen Jany, a UC Santa Barbara doctoral candidate who has uncovered the grammatical structure of Chimariko, an extinct language of native northern California, has been given the Winifred and Louis Lancaster Award for this year's best...
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Three history professors at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have been awarded UC President's Research Fellowships in the Humanities.
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UC Santa Barbara Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has been awarded the Robert Ferrell Book Prize, the most prestigious award given by the Society of Historians for Foreign Relations, for "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan...
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Throughout the Middle Ages, European Christian pilgrims would travel to religious sites in Europe and the Holy Land
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John Majewski, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded a $20,000 fellowship by the George A.
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Catherine Albanese, a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship to continue work on a book about metaphysical religion in the United...
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Cabezón will include his recent attempts to use digital technology to record monastic life in his talk
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UC Santa Barbara professors John Nathan and David W. Lea have been named recipients of prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Monday.
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Jose Cabezon will give his inaugural lecture as UC Santa Barbara's Dalai Lama Professor of Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies Thursday, Nov. 8 at 5 p.m. in the campus Multicultural Center.
