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Magic Lantern Films Presents: Psychedelic Short Films and Climax
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Psychedelic Short Films and Climax
Showings of Psychedelic Short Films and Climax at 7:00 and 10:00 PM
$4
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Research Focus Group Talk: Homes for Gods and Mortals: Film Screening and Discussion with the Director
Research Focus Group Talk: Homes for Gods and Mortals: Film Screening and Discussion with the Director
Homes for Gods and Mortals is a 2018 documentary by the acclaimed Indian film scholar Gayatri Chatterjee. It follows life in two small settlements neighboring the temple complex of Khajuraho, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Madhya Pradesh, India, that is famous for its ornate medieval architecture. The film focuses on the present-day residents of the villages—the nature of their embodied modes of worship and ritual performances—and the interaction of individual lives in a dynamic ...
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Reading: UC Santa Barbara Student Veteran Writers
Reading: UC Santa Barbara Student Veteran Writers
Read the student veterans' stories in The Santa Barbara Independent. Eight student veterans will read stories about their military experiences. Following the reading there will be time for questions from the audience. Gio Caballaro | Bradley Fry | Adrian Mejia | Andy Molina-Ochoa | Scott Rothdeutsch | Edward Rutherford | Kyle Shipe | Melissa Weidner Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series and the UC Santa Barbara Veterans Writing Workshop.
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Research Focus Group Talk: The Color of Belonging: Skin Tone and Attitudes towards Ethnic Voting in India
Research Focus Group Talk: The Color of Belonging: Skin Tone and Attitudes towards Ethnic Voting in India
Ethnic voting is a feature of many multiethnic democracies the world over. The existence of an identity group does not guarantee the electoral solidarity of group members. Besides the desire to corner state resources, relations of fear and prejudice between groups are identified as prominent motivations for ethnic voting. But how members of a group treat each other, how they exercise their preferences and prejudices towards fellow group members also matter to group solidarity in ...
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Talk: A Family Romance: Specters of Incest in Eileen Chang’s Heart Sutra (1943)
Talk: A Family Romance: Specters of Incest in Eileen Chang’s Heart Sutra (1943)
This lecture focuses on Eileen Chang’s Xinjing, The Heart Sutra to map and understand the ways in which the author depicted different types of emotional, erotic, sexual, and psychological flows and exchanges between parents, children, and their partners and spouses. Xinjing will be here read in conversation with a wide array of other sources, first and foremost the mid - and late - Qing literary heritage that so greatly occupied and influenced Eileen Chang’s own literary ...
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Symposium and Staged Readings: The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea
Cherríe Moraga’s play, The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (1995), depicts a dystopic future in a fractured América, aggravated by an entrenched patriarchy. It also explores the tenets of the movement that founded what are now thriving Chicana/Latina programs throughout the Southwest, including the UCSB Chicano Studies program, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2019. This symposium will present a timely (re)consideration of a movement in progress, alongside two staged readings of the play. Friday, ...
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Artist Talk: American Cotton
Artist Talk: American Cotton
Marshall Sharpe is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings, entitled, “American Cotton” at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Glass Box Gallery. The exhibition will be on view from Tuesday, May 28 through Friday, May 31 from 9-5 pm. A reception and a short artist talk will be held on Friday, May 31, from 4-6 pm at the UCSB Glass Box Gallery. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the ...
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Magic Lantern Films Presents: Ash Is Purest White
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Ash Is Purest White
Showings of Ash Is Purest White at 7:00 and 10:00 PM
$4
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IV Live Presents Improvability: Improvathon (24 Hour Show!)
IV Live Presents Improvability: Improvathon (24 Hour Show!)
Improvability: Improvathon (24 Hour Show!) Friday, May 31st at 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista Only 3 bucks! Come early to get a seat! Sponsored by IV Live, Isla Vista Arts, UCSB, and Associated Students
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Magic Lantern Films Presents: Ash Is Purest White
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Ash Is Purest White
Showings of Ash Is Purest White at 7:00 and 10:00 PM
$4