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Division of Arts and Humanities
University of California, San Diego
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La Jolla, CA 92093-0406
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UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities
News & Notables
Visual Arts professor Lev Manovich leads new Mellon Foundation grant on new software tools for humanities researchers. (5.10.12)
CRCA reflects distinguished past at 40th anniversary celebration. (5.8.12)
Division of Arts and Humanities named to Sony Digital Media Academy to foster new expressive applications of digital media technologies. (5.1.12) Professors Sara E. Johnson of Literature and Emily Roxworthy of Theatre & Dance are recipients of the 2011-2012 Distinguished Teaching Award for Academic Senate Members and Literature graduate student Lisa Vernoy for the Saltman Excellent Teaching Award. (5.1.12)
Writer-performer, poet and Literature professor emeritus Eileen Myles won the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. She was selected for her book in progress called "Afterglow." (5.1.12) History professor Naomi Oreskes on YouTube. (4.30.12)
KPBS Radio News quotes professors of Literature Camille Forbes and Theatre and Dance Nadine George-Graves on the controversial "Scottsboro Boys." (4.30.12)
Audiophile Audition reviews Music of Chinary Ung. Cambodian born composer produces complex but very interesting music that is steeped in the sounds, mindset and history of his native land. (4.30.12) Music PhD candidate James Williams wins best oral presentation in the humanities during the Annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education held at Yale. Furthermore, among the ten UC San Diego graduate students newly inducted into the prestigious Bouchet Graduate Honor Society are Chanda Carey (Visual Arts), Carolyn Chen (Music), and Nick Saenz (History). (4.25.12)
UC San Diego Libraries host "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine", May 6-June 16, 2012. The traveling exhibit will be accompanied by a series of lectures by UC San Diego faculty members. Literature professor and dean Seth Lerer will talk on "Harry Potter and the Magic of Books" and Literature professor Stephen Potts on "Harry Potter and the Secrets of Order: Knowledge and Power from Renaissance to Hogwarts". (4.23.12) Update: Rancho Santa Fe Review (5.3.12)NBC San Diego profiles Music professor Mark Dresser. (4.23.12)
Visual Arts professor Sheldon Brown will become director of the newly established Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. The Center will be the focal point for active collaboration on current and future intersection of disciplines to identify and advance creative and innovative solutions for the challenges of contemporary and future societies. (4.17.12) Events
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