Cynthia Felando (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 12, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, Santa Barbara was the setting for the first-ever American “reality” television series, An American Family. Conceived by the producer Craig Gilbert as a way to challenge the...
Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In February 1991 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese exhibited “Near Goleta, But Closer,” a book installation subtitled “An Unnatural History.” While making...
Esther Bates (Executive Director, Elverhøj Museum of History and Art) Ethan Turpin (Local Filmmaker) Wednesday, February 16, 2011 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Solvang’s particular Danishness has evolved in step with the American twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. An emphasis on tourism has both preserved and distorted the...
Dana Driskel (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, November 17, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1912 the city of Santa Barbara welcomed a “high-tech” industry to the area for the first time. Even then the primary employers within city limits...
Colleen Delaney-Rivera (Anthropology, CSU Channel Islands) Monday, November 15, 2010 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The archaeology of the Oxnard Plain of Ventura County has received relatively little attention, with a few notable exceptions. This study focuses on the Chumash occupations of the Oxnard Plain...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / 4:00 PM University Art Museum Artist Ann Diener will lead an informal gallery walkthrough of her commissioned wall drawing at the University Art Museum and present a slide talk about her new body of work. Diener’s large-scale, abstract drawings chart and interpret...