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Office of the Dean
Division of Arts and Humanities
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive # 0406
La Jolla, CA 92093-0406

tel: (858) 534-6270
fax: (858) 534-0091
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UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities

News & Notables

The 36th Telluride Film Festival announced it will include a three-part celebration of Manny Farber -- the late artist and film critic -- as part of its four-day fest running Sept 4-7, 2009. (7.01.09)
Literature Professor Babak Rahimi, who was in Iran during the recent presidential election (see below), returns to San Diego. (7.01.09)
Design is incidental in the socially responsible work shown by architect (and Visual Arts Professor) Teddy Cruz and artist Pedro Reyes at their Architecture Foundation lecture. (7.01.09)
Bruce Nauman received the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Among Nauman's established masterpieces is "Vices and Virtues," designed as a commission for UCSD's Stuart Collection in 1983 and installed in 1988. (6.24.09)
Thriving visions of arts and music computing in focus at UCSD. (6.24.09)
Inuksuit is the first work for percussion commissioned for the Banff Centre, which was composed by percussion expert and Music Professor Steven Schick . (6.24.09)
Babak Rahimi, a professor of Iranian and Islamic studies at UCSD, comments on Iran's presidential race. He has been in Iran since March to cover the elections. (6.17.09)
Updates:
CNN, LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune, New York Times and UCSD news center.
Calit2-affiliated Visual Arts graduate students display work in MFA 2009 exhibition.(6.15.09)
Dean Lerer discusses new edition of Wind in the Willows in Harvard University Press podcast. (6.15.09) Update: London Times Literary Supplement book review.

 

Events

Through July 19, 2009

2009/10 season