January 2017

Tues, Jan. 31,  2017 /4:00 PM UCSB Library, Instruction & Training Room 1312 Enda Duffy (English, UCSB) Ken Kosik (Neuroscience, UCSB) Sameer Pandya (Asian American Studies, UCSB) Kay Young (English, UCSB) By selecting a fiction book this year, after 10 years of non-fiction titles, the UCSB Reads Selection Advisory...

Thursday, January 26, 2017 / 6:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge Stephanie Camba is a writer, poet, singer, MC, visual art-maker, fighter, healer, and eternal learner. With transnational origins, they were born in the Philippines and raised in the Marshall Islands. Camba has struggled with finding a...

Sahar Sajadieh (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, Jan 26th, 4:00 PM at UCSB Glass Box Gallery Reception at 3:45pm “How to Explain Pictures to a Live Paro” is an interactive durational performance artwork about gun control policies in the US, and the safety and security...

Michele Valerie Ronnick (Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University) January 19, 2017 / 6:00 PM Art Design and Architecture Museum For many years only well-born Americans had access to a classically–based liberal arts education. But after the Civil War newly freed slaves aspired to...

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 /10:00 AM UCSB Library Paseo Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, and University Librarian Denise Stephens will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2017 book, Into the Beautiful North by Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, to UCSB...

Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) Gulnar Nassimova (Political Science, Al Farabi Kazakhstan National University) Thursday, January 12, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Kazakhstan, a state in Central Asia, became independent upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today’s university youth were socialized in the post-Soviet...