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GCLR Distinguished Visiting Scholar - Ursula K. Heise

Distinguished visiting lecturer, Professor Ursula Heise from UCLA, comes to UCSB on May 4th to give a talk entitled, "Beyond Realism: Narrative and Environmental Crisis." Join us in the Wallis Anneberg Conference Room (Social Science and Media Studies Building, Room 4315) at 5 PM on Thursday, May 4, 2023.

RFG Talk: Color: Additions, Subtractions, Signals

Dr. Ricardo Cedeño Montaña is giving a presentation Wednesday, May 10th, during which he will describe some of the particular principles, mechanisms, and techniques by which color film functioned in its formative years and the coding schemes for (re)producing, storing, and transmitting color information in electronic and digital media.

UCSB alumna, Marzia Milazzo, publishes her first book, Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power

Marzia Milazzo just published her first book: Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power (Northwestern University Press, 2022).

A talk by translator Michael Moore on the occasion of his recent translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

A talk by translator Michael Moore on the occasion of his recent translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed, followed by a conversation with Professors Giancarlo Tursi and Claudio Fogu. 

 

Graduate Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2023 Thurs. 2-5pm

Professor Fabian Offert is offering a graduate seminar on Artificial Intelligence in the Spring of 2023. This lecture offeres perspectives from Critical Therory, Media Studies, Visual Studies, and Art and History on Visual Artificial Intelligence.

UCLA Professor, Efrain Kristal, holds a lecture in Phelps Hall on March 13

Disguished UCLA Professor, Efrain Kistal, will be hosting a lecture, "War and Translation in...

Film screening at Carsey-Wolf, March 14

On March 14th, Carsey-Wold will be holding a screening of the film, Our River...Our Sky, followed by a conversation between Prof.Mona Damluji and the director Maysoon Pachachi.

 

 

Arpi Movsesian (PhD, 2022) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at Notre-Dame University, after one year as Lecturer at Rutgers University's Program in Russian and East European Languages and Literatures!

Arpi Movsesian (PhD, 2022) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Slavic...

UCSB Comp Lit. graduate student, Wendy Sun, has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of German Studies at Grinnel College!

One of UCSB's Comparative Literature graduate students, Wendy Sun, has accepted a tenure-track...

UCSB student, Marzia Milazzo, Publishes her first book, Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power

Marzia Milazzo (PhD in Comparative Literature, with a doctoral emphasis in Global Studies, 2013) just published her first book: Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power (Northwestern University Press, 2022).