Katherine Steele Brokaw (UC Merced) Thursday, January 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How does Shakespeare make different kinds of meaning in various local communities? And how can amateur theatre be a form of community engagement for drama and Shakespeare scholars? This talk will...
Written by Brian Granger (Lecturer, Theatre, Vanderbilt University) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, May 26 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Eden Falls is a darkly comic allegory about two neighboring families, divided by a huge privacy fence and different values, whose lives...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Thursday, May 22, 2014 / 5:00 - 7:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A closet. A cry for help. Body broken, mind broken,...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 / 7:00 PM Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High School Thursday, January 31, 2013 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater, UCSB Theater of War is an innovative project that presents professional actors reading scenes from ancient Greek drama about soldiers returning from war. Following the...
Patricia Fumerton (English, UCSB) Ann Rosalind Jones (Comparative Literature, Smith College) Julia Reinhard Lupton (English, UC Irvine) Peter Stallybrass (English, University of Pennsylvania) Friday, May 4, 2012 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This symposium will contribute to the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's "Public Goods"...
LA Urban Rangers (Art Collective, Los Angeles) Thursday, April 28, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Join Ranger Jenny of the LA Urban Rangers for a campfire program about their past and current projects. An interdisciplinary art collective, the Rangers explore the complex human and...
Ursula Biemann Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The...
CANCELLED: NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters This event is cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire Peabody Award-winning radio producers The Kitchen Sisters come the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center to present an afternoon of radio, readings and some fine Hidden Kitchen cooking. Hidden Kitchens, ...
Stephen Sondheim & Frank Rich Saturday, March 8 / 4:00 PM The Granada General public $48.00 - $68.00 / UCSB Students $22.00 Legendary theatrical composer Stephen Sondheim will appear in an on-stage interview with author and New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich. Together they will...
Antonio Skármeta Monday, March 3 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The acclaimed Chilean writer Antonio Skarmeta whose novel Burning Patience was made into the award-winning film Il Postino, based on an episode in the life of the famous poet Pablo Neruda, will show...
John Walch, Pier Carlo Talenti, and Risa Brainin Friday, May 25 / 4:00 - 5:30 PM Hatlen Theatre Preceding the West Coast Premiere of The ...