Everybody Clapped!
Tonight my friend and I went to see a performance of pieces by Steve Reich (with the composer present!) by Bang on a Can All-Stars and red fish blue fish, co-hosted by the UCSD Department of Music and...
View ArticleJuliana Leslie Wins National Poetry Series Award
Juliana Leslie, a Ph.D candidate in the Literature department at UCSC, has recently won a National Poetry Series award. The award is given out to five writers each year and the prize includes $1000 and...
View ArticleBig Screen/Little Screen
The 2012 Academy Award nominees were announced yesterday with the usual fanfare in the media and attendant joy and outrage on the part of movie fans. By coincidence, I saw three of the Best Picture...
View ArticleRethinking the Intellectual, Reshaping the Human: An Interview With Daniel...
As one of the Graduate Student Fellows of the UC President´s Society of Fellows, Daniel Quirós (Literature, UC San Diego) offers inspiration and a reminder of why many of us choose to pursue work in...
View ArticleCalifornia Arts Education
This posting is a response to fellow UC Humanities Forum blogger Satoko Kakihara´s posting “Everybody Clapped,” which was a lovely and passionate argument for the arts, arts experiences for children,...
View ArticleDirector Oliver Stone Chats with UC Davis Students
Passion. This is what drives three-time Academy Award winner, director Oliver Stone. According to one film critic, Stone’s films are about “a person who realizes he is living an inauthentic life, and...
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Generous Mellon Grant to Support Teaching of Renaissance Latin at UCLA
Latin, a language that presumably “died” more than 1,500 years ago with the Roman Empire and such writers as Cicero and Virgil, actually had a much longer lifespan than most people believe. A form of...
View ArticleStrong!
The intersections of femininity, health, and athleticism can be fraught, to put it lightly. Finding ways to feel comfortable in our bodies is hard, particularly given the dominance of unattainable and...
View ArticleGaming at the Intersection of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences
Controlling a Super Mario game using only your mind, cameras embedded in Times Square advertisements that watch and respond to the crowds watching them, wireless connections between separate, living...
View ArticleThe Beauty and the Beholder
Long ago, when I lived in the Bay Area, I went to a comedy club in San Francisco and heard Sheng Wang, a Taiwanese-American stand-up comic, deliver these lines: “I wanna be like white dudes. I wanna...
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Rickerby Hinds’ Hip-Hop Theater Aesthetics
I have some catching up to do from last quarter, so I’ll hopefully get my back(b)log out of the way within a week. This will be a two-part recap of my impressions from the December 6-7 visit to UCSB by...
View ArticleHarry Belafonte on Art and Activism
Harry Belafonte’s life exemplifies the fusion of art and activism. An actor, humanitarian, and the acknowledged king of calypso, Belafonte ranks among the most important performers of the postwar era....
View ArticleThinking Through Ernest Cole: Race, Representation, Repression and Resistance
Ernest Cole (1940–90), one of South Africa’s first black photojournalists, passionately pursued his mission to tell the world what it was like to be black under apartheid. With imaginative daring,...
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Vocal Strings: Experimental Music from China
Experimental creatrix Liu Sola and avant musician Liu Yijun, leading representatives of China’s avant garde, will perform Vocal Strings at 9 pm on Friday, April 19, in the Lenart Auditorium in the...
View ArticleWriters, Reading + Riffing
For the final event of Humanities in Circulation, UCHRI has invited four award-winning writers–Bharati Mukherjee, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Hector Tobar, and Karen Tei Yamashita–to share their work and talk...
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