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Department Newsletters (latest edition)
Literature ~~ Theatre/Dance ~~ Philosophy ~~ History
UCSD Literature Professor Luis Martin-Cabrera and a team of graduate students - drawn from the History, Literature and Visual Arts departments - re-kindle stories from Spanish Civil War survivors. Click here for UCSD's Southworth Collection of posters from the war. (8.27.08)
CISA3 archeologists, led by Judaic Studies Director Thomas Levy, develop 3D images of artifacts for Digital Pottery Informatics Database. (8.26.08)
Boston Globe article entitled "Tehran's Web of Silence" co-written by Literature Professor Babak Rahimi. (8.26.08)
Manny Farber, painter, film critic and Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts, died on August 18, 2008 at the age of 91. Farber was an iconoclastic stylist who achieved prominence in two careers -- as a painter of abstract canvases and still-lifes and as a film critic admired for his canny, muscular writing. (8.21.08)
Dr. Seth Lerer, the incoming Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities, featured on KPBS' These Days. (8.21.08)
UCSD bass player and Music Professor Mark Dresser writes article on Telematics for allaboutjazz.com. (8.21.08)
Washington Post review of "For the Love of Animals" by Literature Professor Kathryn Shevelow. (7.23.08) Also, review in Christian Science Monitor. (8.1.08)
Interview with Music Professor Steven Schick who is the founder, artistic director, and performer for the resident ensemble of percussionists at UCSD, red fish blue fish. (8.1.08)
UCSD pianist, improviser, composer and professor, Anthony Davis, profiled on allaboutjazz.com. (7.28.08)
Review of Pittsburgh New Music Ensembles' latest concert - including rave reviews for Music Professor Steven Schick and Theatre and Dance Professor Shahrokh Yadegari. (7.24.08)
Randy Olson's "Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy" opened this week at the Woods Hole Film Festival. One of the film's main subjects is History Professor Naomi Oreskes. (7.22.08)
Upcoming exhibition at the gallery@calit2 envisages future on nanoparticles and distributed social cinema. Features work by several members of the Visual Arts Department including Ricardo Dominguez and new Department Chair Adriene Jenik. (7.23.08) Update: Exhibition review.
New York Times review of "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" at NYC's MOMA - includes work by Visual Art's Professor Teddy Cruz. (7.18.08)
New Yorker article written by Literature Professor Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. (7.16.08)
Opening night of Summergarden in NYC includes review of Music's Chinary Ung's Spiral X: 'In Memoriam'. (7.16.08)
San Diego Union Tribune article about the Latino vote in the upcoming presidential election - featuring comments from Literature's Jorge Mariscal. (7.16.08)
Thomas Nee, Professor Emeritus and long-time music director of the La Jolla Symphony, died on July 7, 2008 at the age of 87. A memorial service will be held this fall at UCSD's music department. (7.10.08)
Rebecca Webb, film curator, works to create interactive experiences for ArtPower! audiences. (7.9.08)
Dr. Seth Lerer of Stanford University has been appointed Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Literature effective January 1, 2009. Dr. Lerer is highly recognized and respected for his research in the area of medieval and renaissance studies, comparative philology, the history of scholarship, and children's literature. (6.20.08) Update: Lerer on NPR
Eight faculty members in our Division have been named a 2008/09 Hellman Faculty Fellow. Click here for list of recipients. (6.16.08)
Ojai Music Festival brings together a variety of musical genres, styles and influences, including Music Professor Philippe Manoury. (6.11.08)
Dr. Floyd Gaffney, father of African American theatre in San Diego, will be remembered and celebrated at the Educational Cultural Complex on Saturday, June14 at 6:00 p.m. Dr. Gaffney was Common Ground Theatre's artistic director for 36 years and UCSD professor emeritus of Theatre and Dance until his death last year. (6.11.08)
Eight UCSD faculty members to be honored on June 6th for teaching excellence,inspiration including Philosophy's Donald Rutherford and Music's Steven Schick. Click here for past recipients. (6.04.08)
Floating orbs meet music boxes: Students unleash creative powers at the 2008 Visual Arts Senior Art Show. (6.03.08)
San Diego boasts big-league talents on the bass including two UCSD faculty members Mark Dresser and Bertram Turetzky. (6.03.08)
UCSD alumnus to show super-high definition video at International Festival. (6.03.08)
A star-studded panel of scientists, including Philosophy Professor Patricia Churchland, gathered in NYC to discuss "What Does It Mean To Be Human?" (6.03.08) Update: World Science Festival
$3 million gift from philanthropist Conrad Prebys is music to ears of UC San Diego. This money will be used to maintain and replace world-class musical instruments and cutting-edge equipment, and to fund graduate fellowships.This gift comes just one year after Prebys gave $6 million for the state-of-the-art music center, now named the Conrad Prebys Music Center (5.30.08)
Blurred Borders Dance Festival, whose artistic director is Theatre & Dance's Patricia Rincon, brings world dance to San Diego. (5.29.08)
Five MFA students from the Visual Arts Department offer a peek at UC San Diego's filmmaking talent pool. (5.28.08)
Literature Professor Babak Rahimi is quoted in San Diego Union Tribune article about Iraq. (5.28.08)
Music Professor and composer Anthony Davis' opera "Amistad" opens the Spoleto Festival USA. Since he joined UCSD in 1998, Davis has written one opera and began another, won a Guggenheim Fellowship, and toured the United States and Europe performing his compositions with his own ensemble. (5.23.08) Update: NY Times article
Holocaust Living History Workshop brings together UCSD students and survivors. Visual history archive at UC San Diego Libraries includes personal stories of more than 50,000 survivors. (5.23.08)
LA Times article about a Visual Arts alum's solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. (5.23.08)
Beijing conference held on the poetry of Professor Wai-lim Yip UCSD Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literatur. (5.21.08)
UC San Diego Libraries acquire letters of Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who began writing in the late 1950s as one of the writers of the Beat Generation. (5.20.08)
San Diego Union Tribune article regarding California Supreme Court ruling quotes History Professor Michael Parrish. (5.20.08)
Another piece for Stuart Collection. A mural by former UCSD faculty member Barbara Kruger adorns the new Price Center atrium. (5.6.08) Update: UT article
UC San Diego alum Zach Horton makes waves in Hollywood with innovative film series. (5.6.08)
Lecture on globalization by famed writer Carlos Fuentes draws a crowd of almost 900 people at Mandeville Auditorium. (5.6.08)
LA Times review of Phantom Sightings at LACMA. Exhibit features several members of our Visual Arts department. (4.18.08)
New York Times review of Candide - featuring costumes designed by Associate Dean Judith Dolan. (4.17.08)
Leading scholar of the Bible, David Noel Freedman, dies at age 85. Holder of the Endowed Chair in Hebrew Biblical Studies since 1992, Professor Freedman had been author and editor of more than 300 scholarly books. UCSD will host an international memorial symposium in Freedman's honor in the fall of 2008. (4.14.08) Update: obituary from LA Times.
MOCA gives props to 'un-artist' - Allan Kaprow . Also New York Times article. (4.14.08)
Contrabassist and Music Professor Mark Dresser to perform at Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21, 2008. (4.11.08)
Literature Professor Rae Armantrout receives prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. Visit our awards page to see previous recipients in our Division. (4.7.08)
Famed writer Carlos Fuentes to speak on campus on April 24th. (4.3.08)
Noted art historian and Literature Emeritus Bram Dijkstra to lecture at Oceanside Museum of Art. As guest curator at OMA, Dijkstra assembled some of the finest paintings for the exhibit Masterpieces of San Diego Painting: Fifty Works from Fifty Years, 1900-1950. (4.3.08)
Educational reformer and feminist Gracia Molina de Pick to be honored at UC San Diego’s César Chávez Celebration. (3.21.08)
Congratulations to History Professor Naomi Oreskes - the recipient of the 2007-08 Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Community Service. Click here for previous recipients in our Division. (3.20.08)
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus to build on 'building blocks of music' for its upcoming 54th season. (3.18.08)
New York Times review of Visual Arts Lecturer Jean Lowe's latest exhibition. (3.13.08)
Literature Professors Babak Rahimi and Michael Davidson each featured in separate newspaper articles. Rahimi discusses Iran in the Chicago Tribune and Davidson discusses the art of sign language in the San Diego Union Tribune. (3.5.08)
Theatre Professor Marianne McDonald has been selected to be inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame on March 29th at the UCSD Price Center. The ceremony begins at 5:00pm, with dinner at 6:00pm. Past winners include Ellen Browning Scripps, Joan Kroc, and Lucy Killea. (2.27.08)
Southwest Art magazine reviews LACMA exhibit that features Visual Arts Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres. (2.27.08)
CISA3 director Maurizio Seracinifeatured in Daily Telegraph article about lost da Vinci masterpiece. (2.27.08) Update: Seracini named National Geographic Fellow. Update: NPR article. (3.18.08) Update: Wall Street Journal article. (4.10.08) Update: featured on 60 Minutes (4.22.08)
The concert video for Music Professor Roger Reynolds' "Sanctuary" will be shown at Calit2 on February 28th. (2.27.08)
San Diego theatre legend Floyd Gaffney to be honored February 29th at the Weiss Forum Theatre. (2.22.08)
New York Times article features architect and Visual Arts Professor Teddy Cruz. (2.22.08)
Visual Arts graduate student Derek Lomas connects young minds to India with latest technology. (2.22.08)
Theatre Professor Kim Rubinstein makes her Old Globe directing debut this week with "The American Plan." (2.22.08)
National Geographic journeystreams interviews Visual Arts undergraduate Christin Turner. (2.22.08)
Newsweek article mentions Literature Professor Camille Forbes' new book "Introducing Bert Williams." (2.12.08)
Music Professor and contrabassist Mark Dresser will perform live with counterparts at UC Berkeley and Stanford University on February 13th at 8pm in Atkinson Hall. (2.12.08)
Beginning Spring Quarter 2008, UCSD will offer a European studies minor program, directed by Literature Professor Roddey Reid. This minor will highlight Europe’s political and economic expansion, as well as broader issues of national identity. (2.11.08)
Rosemary Radford Ruether, a Christian feminist theologian at the forefront of scholarly efforts to diagnose major social problems in American society, the churches, and the world, will give a lecture at UCSD on February 25th as part of the Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society. (2.8.08)
Naomi Oreskes, History and Science Studies Professor, named Provost of Sixth College effective July 1, 2008. (2.5.08)
UC San Diego establishes chair in Modern Greek History; renowned scholar Thomas Gallant named inaugural chair. (2.1.08)
Assistant Dean Heath Fox was featured on KPBS' These Days where he discussed the recent investigation into looted antiquities at a local museum. (1.31.08)
Jean-Pierre Gorin, filmmaker and Visual Arts professor, has been honored as Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres. (1.30.08)
Gallery at Calit2 opens 2008 season with super-sized version of iconic Atari joystick. Exhibition runs from February 4th to March 17th. (1.25.08)
Los Angeles Times article about the outdoor art collections of California's colleges and universities, including UCSD's Stuart Collection. (1.24.08)
'In the Beginning' marks new curator Stephen Hepworth's beginning at the University Art Gallery. (1.22.08)
The La Jolla Playhouse unveils two more shows for the 2008 season. The Playhouse plans to announce three additional shows – two as part of the experimental The Edge series and the other a play directed by Christopher Ashley, the theater's new artistic director. (1.16.08)
Neuroscientists and philosophers , including Patricia and Paul Churchland, are grappling with the interplay between the inner mind and the outer world, looking at how the brain we are born with changes in response to the cultural, social, personal and physical environments in which we live. (1.8.08)
UC San Diego researchers acquire data on Renaissance
landmark in search for da Vinci mural. (1.8.08)
