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Humanities Decanted: Suzanne Jill Levine

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Join us for a dialogue between Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) and Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese) about Levine's new book, Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir. In Unfaithful, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period. Levine analyzes how her openness to another culture and new experiences, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors, took her from a modest New ...

Humanities Decanted: Shana Moulton

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Join us for a discussion with Shana Moulton (Art) about her recent exhibition at MoMa, Meta/Physical Therapy. This 2024 exhibition premiered a new site-specific installation. Through performance, video, and sculpture, Moulton chronicled the experiences of her semi-autobiographical alter-ego, Cynthia, as she navigated personal choices and physical limitations. Transforming the Kravis Studio into a prismatic environment, this installation employed the artist’s signature blend of spiritual imagery, medical technology, popular culture, and references to high art and ...

On Fire Talk: Working with Fire: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This talk opens in the wake of a 2012 arson attack on Women With A Vision (WWAV) and moves with the members of this Black feminist collective as they refused the terror of this attack and rose from the ashes to carry their foremothers’ work forward ever. Their story is a lesson for our times. Our whole world is on fire. And yet, WWAV shows us how the flames meant to destroy us can also ...