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Events
Through May 31, 2013
UC San Diego presents 7th Annual Asian and Pacific Islander American Celebration
During the month of May, UC San Diego will celebrate Asian-Pacific Islander American Heritage Month with numerous campus events focused on community and wellness. Events range from lectures and a luau to an award-winning documentary and presentation on the Khmer Rouge with Dr. Sophal Ear on May 10.
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Through June 2, 2013
La Jolla Playhouse presents Accomplice: San Diego
ACCOMPLICE: SAN DIEGO offers a completely unique theatrical experience, unlike any found on any stage, taking its audience on an adventure through the city streets. You’ll be sent on a mission, aided by clues and mysterious cast members strewn throughout various locations such as street corners, bars and out-of-the-way spots. Groups of 10 piece together the clues of a meticulously crafted criminal plot and rely on their own street smarts to make it to the end.
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Through June 10, 2013
Geisel Library presents Amos Oz: Life and Letters
Geisel Library
The exhibit, in the west wing of Geisel Library’s main floor, will take Oz’s “A Tale of Love and Darkness” as a springing-off point to consider the author’s life and writings, Israeli literature, and Israeli/Palestinian history and politics. Specific exhibit areas include: Oz’s early life and family history; his literary influences and the writers he has influenced; and the development of modern Hebrew as a literary language. This is free and open to the public during library hours.
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Through June 14, 2013
gallery@calit2 presents Exhibition: CONSUME
Gallery hours: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
CONSUME is a group exhibition curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley and informed by her current research at the intersection of art, technology and food systems. Projects in the gallery document interdisciplinary ideas pertaining to current discussions in the fields of health, energy, technology, and the environment, and include works by: Brandon Ballengée, Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, Justine Cooper, Beatriz da Costa, and Jamie O'Shea.
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Through June 20, 2013
Geisel Library presents Exhibit: Silent Era Filmmaking of the La Jolla Cinema League
Geisel Library (lower level, west wing)
Curated by Scott Paulson, outreach coordinator for the Arts Library, the exhibit will be about the 1920s-era Cinema League. This is free and open to the public during library hours.
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Through June 2013
ARTifact gallery presents Audacious Speculations
Gallery hours: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Each quarter, ARTifact gallery presents a new exhibit featuring artwork that is conceptually linked to the current courses of the Culture, Art & Technology (CAT) program. The gallery functions as an integrated learning laboratory, transforming the working environment of the CAT offices into a hybrid space where contemporary art and the CAT curriculum convene. This winter, faculty and students look toward the future, exploring how researchers, artists, activists and entrepreneurs make “something from nothing” – transforming AUDACIOUS SPECULATIONS into reality
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May 24, 2013
Calit2 presents Research Openhouse and Symposium
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Atkinson Hall
You are invited to this Openhouse and Symposium to celebrate the naming of the Calit2 as the Qualcomm Institute. Ever wondered what goes on in a world-renowned, multidisciplinary research institute? This is your chance to meet institute faculty, students and staff, and learn more about the cutting-edge research that goes on every day in Atkinson Hall. Starting at 3:30pm at the Calit2 Theater, enjoy a dynamic, interactive performance with the re-staging of the work Ad Infinitum3 by Andy Muelhausen, as part of the inaugural series staged by IDEAS.
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May 24, 2013
Center for the Humanities Living Archives Research Group presents The Hands of War and Civil Disobedience
4:00 p.m.
Seuss Room, Geisel Library
The UC San Diego Center for the Humanities Living Archives Research Group presents Marione Ingram, civil rights activist and author of The Hands of War: A Tale of Endurance and Hope from a Survivor of the Holocaust and Ricardo Domingez, UC San Diego Visual Arts Professor and co-founder of Electronic Civil Disturbance Theater in a presentation of their work and a discussion concerning speech and activism in the Modern West and the Global Era.
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May 24, 2013
Philosophy presents Colloquium Series
Ruth Chang
"Do We Have Normative Powers?"
4:00 p.m.
H&SS 7077 (Seminar Room)
The UC San Diego Center for the Humanities Living Archives Research Group presents Marione Ingram, civil rights activist and author of The Hands of War: A Tale of Endurance and Hope from a Survivor of the Holocaust and Ricardo Domingez, UC San Diego Visual Arts Professor and co-founder of Electronic Civil Disturbance Theater in a presentation of their work and a discussion concerning speech and activism in the Modern West and the Global Era.
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May 25, 2013
Geisel Library presents Movie Screening: Silent Films of La Jolla Cinema League (with Live music)
3:00 p.m.
Seuss Room
The Library will screen a selection of silent films from the La Jolla Cinema League. A live music score compiled by Paulson and performed by his Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra will accompany the films. This is free and open to the public. All are welcome.
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May 25-26, 2013
Experimental Drawing Studio presents Drawn into Film
JP Gorin
The Hand
SME room 149 Presentation Space
Experimental Drawing Studio is proud to announce, Drawn into Film "The Hand". Join us with Professor JP Gorin, Visual Arts at UC San Diego. This screening series considers drawing as it exists within film and is organized by Experimental Drawing Studio, part of the Visual Arts Department at University of California San Diego. This event is free and open to the public.
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May 28, 2013
IICAS presents European Studies Speaker Series
Alexander Stille
"The Italian Mess: Why is Italy in Such Bad Shape?"
3:30 p.m.
Social Sciences Building, room 107
Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. Stille graduated with a B.A. from Yale University and earned an M.S. at Columbia. He is author of several books and is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for best work of history (1992), Premio Acqui (1992), San Francisco Chronicle Critics Choice Award (1995), and the Alicia Patterson Foundation award for journalism (1996).
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May 28 - June 30, 2013
La Jolla Playhouse presents His Girl Friday
Mandell Weiss Theatre
A major story is brewing in a 1939 Chicago press room, but ace reporter Hildy Johnson is leaving the newspaper game for good. When her former editor (and ex-husband) entices her with the scoop to break the story, the lure of fame and rekindled romance prove more than she can resist. Don’t miss this fast-talking comedy that exposes the unsavory politics of tabloid journalism.
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May 29, 2013
Judaic Studies presents Aren Maeir
"Who are you calling a Philistine? Archaeology and the Bible at Tell es-Safi - biblical Gath of the Philistines"
8:00 p.m.
Dugout Conference Room, RIMAC Annex
In this lecture, Professor Aren Maeir, of Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel), will discuss about the modern interface between Bible and Archaeology - a long-debated and contested topic, and other issues, with particular emphasis on the results of the excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath, a project which he directs.
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May 30, 2013
CILAS presents Urbanization and Inequalities: What can China learn from Latin America?
3:00 p.m.
CILAS Library, IAC Complex
The urbanization level of Latin America might be the highest in the developing world. At the same time, the inequalities (economic, social, and political) are serious issues for the region. Scholars from around the world, agree that these inequalities have constituted bottle necks for the further development of Latin America. Some scholars, especially in China, identify the phenomenon of Latin American inequalities as the “Latin American Trap” of development. Urbanization is an irreversible process in China. From the 1980’s to the present, the urbanization rate (the weight of the urban population in total) has doubled, from less than 25% to more than 50%. At the same time, income inequality in China is becoming more and more serious.
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May 30 - June 28, 2013
University Art Gallery presents MFA 2013
Opening Reception: May 30
5:30-8:30 p.m.
Gallery hours: T/Th - 11am-5pm; W/F - 11am-7:30pm
Free admission
Art Gallery, Mandeville Center
Selected work by the graduating Masters of Fine Arts students of the Department of Visual Arts.
Featuring: Jamilah Abdul-Sabur, Ela Boyd, Misael Diaz, Adrienne Garbini, Jesse Harding, Edward Kihn, Sam Kronick, Benjamin Lotan, Frankie Martin, Rebecca Monarrez, Nina Preisendorfer, Daniel Rehn, Emily Sevier, Allison Spence, Josh Tonies
Curated by Melinda Guillen and Samara Kaplan, PhD students in Art History, Theory & Criticism, UCSD Department of Visual Arts
Programs:
Thursday May 30th 6pm - Performance by Ela Boyd
Wednesday June 5th 5-7pm - Artist Talk by Jamilah Abdul-Sabur and Readings by Misael Diaz & Allison Spence
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May 30, 2013
Study of Religion presents Forum on Religion
Diane Winston
"All the News That's Fit to Print: Religion, Sexuality and AIDS Coverage in the 1980s"
7:00 p.m.
Great Hall at International House
Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. A national authority on religion and the media as both a journalist and a scholar, her expertise includes religion, politics and the news media as well as religion and the entertainment media.
The talk will be followed by a panel session and Q&A with the audience. The panelists are Babak Rahimi, Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Program for the Study of Religion; David Serlin, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Communication; Roshanak Kheshti, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies; and Richard Madsen, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology.
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May 31 - June 8, 2013
Theatre and Dance presents The Underground New Play Festival
Arthur Wagner Theatre
The plays are written, directed, designed, managed, and performed by undergraduate students of the department.
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June 1-9, 2013
Judaic Studies and Calit2, CISA3 present Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination
Atkinson Hall
This exhibition organized by CISA3 associate director Tom Levy will showcase alternative interpretations of the Exodus, using high-tech display tools in a museum-of-the-future setting.
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June 3, 2013
Science Studies presents Colloquium Series
Alistair Sponsel
"What is an Author, and How Did Darwin Become One?"
4:00 p.m.
Humanities & Social Sciences Building, room 3027
Alistair Sponsel is assistant professor of History at Vanderbilt University and 2013 Ritter Fellow at SIO. This lecture has two aims: the first is to argue that historiuns have failed to recognize how the structure of the personal relationship between Lyell and darwin after the voyage resulted in the younger man's work being presented explicitly as subsidiary to Lyell's. Second, it examines how Darwin sought to transcend this relationship by establishing himself as the author of his own ideas.
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June 5, 2013
Judaic Studies and Calit2, CISA3 present William Propp
"What Was the Exodus?"
5:00 p.m.
Atkinson Hall
Drawing upon his own previous researches and the presentations at the UCSD Calit2 Qualcomm Institute conference Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination (June 1-3, 2013), Professor Propp will consider whether and to what extent we can utilize the Hebrew Bible as a historical source, and how its narrative fits into the known history and archaeology of the Late Bronze Age. Finally, to illustrate the challenges the Exodus poses to the historian, Propp will compare the biblical tale to another miraculous escape story, drawn from the folklore of World War I.
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June 5, 2013
University Art Gallery presents MFA 2013
5:00 p.m.
Art Gallery, Mandeville Center
Artist Talk by Jamilah Abdul-Sabur and Readings by Misael Diaz and Allison Spence.
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June 5-8, 2013
Theatre and Dance presents New Directions - - MFA I Student Choreographers' Showcase
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Our first year MFA Dance Theatre choreographers stretch dance theatre boundaries in inventive, new works along with original works by our most talented undergraduate choreographers
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June 6, 2013
Visual Arts Experimental Drawing Studio presents Am I Drawing Now? Speaker Series
Amy Alexander, Visual Arts UCSD
Performance
4:00 p.m.
SME Room 202
Am I Drawing Now? is a series of lectures, conversations, performances and exhibitions that seek to illuminate drawing as a cross disciplinary activity. Our series continues this spring with informal talks that take place in Experimental Drawing Studio at UCSD. The series is free and open to the public. All are welcome.
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June 8, 2013
Center for the Humanities, Literature and IICAS present Mobile Knowledges Symposium
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Dolores Huerta Room, Student Center
The symposium brings together researchers from a variety of backgrounds whose work addresses the effects of enclosures on cultures emerging from situations of mobility and the environments in which they move.
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June 8-9, 2013
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus presents Earth/Peace
David Chase conducts
Saturday-7:30 p.m.; Sunday-2:00 p.m.
Mandeville Auditorium
David Chase conducts Three great 20th-century composers contemplate peace – global, personal, spiritual. Britten begins the program with a work inspired by his intense pacifism. Schoenberg paints a picture of mankind evolving from a murky past to a bright future based on “Peace on Earth.” We conclude with one of Vaughan Williams’ greatest choral-orchestral works based on the war poetry of Walt Whitman and excerpts from the Bible. Special Guests: Mary Jaeb, soprano; Dean Elzinga, bass-baritone.
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June 10, 2013
San Diego Symphony and Music present Camera Lucida Special Presentation: A Beethoven Finale
7:30 p.m.
CPMC Concert Hall
BEETHOVEN: Seven Variations on "Bei Maennern welche Liebe fuehlen"
BEETHOVEN: Sonata in A Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 69
MYRIAD TRIO
Camera Lucida, a collaboration between UC San Diego and the San Diego Symphony, presents chamber music masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. The concerts feature outstanding solo instrumentalists of the San Diego Symphony alongside UCSD music performance faculty and guests from the international chamber music world.
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June 25 - July 21, 2013
La Jolla Playhouse presents Tribes
Mandell Weiss Forum
From rising British playwright Nina Raine, this contemporary new play is a savage, funny look at family dynamics and the challenges of communication. As the only deaf member of his sharp-tongued family, Billy has spent much of his life feeling out of place. But when he finds a new home in the deaf community, tensions reach an all-time high.
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July 16 - August 18, 2013
La Jolla Playhouse presents Sideways
Thursday & Friday: every half hour between 4:30-7:00pm
Saturday & Sunday: every half hour between 1:00-5:00 pm
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Sideways is the story of two friends — Miles, a frustrated novelist, and Jack, a no-name TV actor and director — and their journey through wine, women and disappointment. During one last blowout road trip before Jack is to be married, the two men run headlong into their midlife crises, all the while exploring the stellar Santa Barbara wine region.
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