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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

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UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities

News & Notables

On May 18, Theatre & Dance will be celebrating its 40th anniversary and honoring Arthur Wagner, founding chair of the department, for a legacy of innovative work. (5.17.13)

Visual Arts Professor Teddy Cruz is a recipient of the 2013 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. (5.17.13)
Literature Professor Emeritus David K. Crowne, an expert on English poetry of the Great War, passed away on May 12. He joined the Department in 1964 and served as chair in 1982-85. A memorial celebration will be held on June 15, 2013. (5.17.13)
Literature Professor Ben Doller has been selected as one of the 2013-14 Hellman Faculty Fellows. This valuable program provides financial support to young faculty who show the capacity for great distinction in their research and creative activities. (5.13.13)
World-renowned Israeli writer Amos Oz recently spoke to a crowd of 500 on the UCSD campus. Oz, who published a book, Jews and Words (Yale U.P., 2012) with his daughter Fania Oz-Salzburger, spoke of the unprecedented revival of the Hebrew language, and advocated for moderacy and compromise in approaching the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The right leaders may already exist, they just don't know it yet, he told the audience. Oz also met with a group of undergraduate and graduate students who had been studying his fiction. An exhibit devoted to Amos Oz's life and work is on display at Geisel Library through June 10. (5.7.13)
Featured this month on UCSD-TV: Pianist and Professor Emeritus Cecil Lytle presents 'Liszt in the World' and the presentations of History Professors Michael Provence and Hasan Kayali during the symposium on consequences of the Iraq war. (5.3.13)
Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination will celebrate its opening this May with a symposium series that explores the future of starships, and features some of the best known figures in science and science fiction. (5.2.13) Update (5.9.13)
New opera 'Cuatro Corridos' led by Grammy Award-winning soprano and Professor Susan Narucki addresses human trafficking. World premiere performances will take place on May 8, 10 and 11 at Conrad Prebys Music Center. (4.26.13) Narucki interviewed on KBPS Radio "Midday Edition" (5.8.13) Reviews: UT San Diego. (5.9.13) LA Times. (5.9.13) Update (5.16.13)

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New Publications


Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theatre
by Seth Lerer, Dean-Arts and Humanities,
Department of Literature; Reading and book signing at Warwick's on May 7 at 7:30 p.m.

Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture by Shelley S. Streeby,
Departments of Literature and Ethnic Studies


Writing Mexican History by Eric Van Young,
Department of History

Just Saying by Rae Armantrout,
Department of Literature;