Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 9:00 AM-12:30 PM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building SKILLS Day is the capstone event of the School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society (SKILLS) academic outreach program, a university/community partnership between UCSB and Santa Barbara County schools and youth organizations. SKILLS...
Jason Groves (German, Rutgers University) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB This talk will explore how, since around 1800, literature has offered imaginative ways of relating to the lithosphere beyond extraction and other destructive petrofictions. First coined in 1992 by Amitav Ghosh...
Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC Davis) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Embracing both genetically-improved seed and ecologically-based farming methods, Pamela Ronald aims to enhance sustainable agriculture. In this talk, she asserts that genetic improvement is a critical component of...
Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Pollock Theater Don’t Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the...