Greetings from the UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities!
All
six of our departments and 14 academic programs are continuing to flourish – thanks
to talented students, and outstanding teachers and researchers. We hope you enjoy
reading about some of them below. The search for a new dean and efforts to recruit
top-notch faculty members are moving forward, and we will keep you posted on
developments in the coming months.
Meantime, if you have thoughts or suggestions for the division, please let
us know by email at dean-ah@ucsd.edu.
With very best wishes,
Eric Van Young,
Interim Dean
NEWS & NOTABLE
The University Art Gallery will reopen in January with “In the Beginning,” an exhibition put together by Stephen Hepworth, the new curator for the UAG recently recruited from London. Featuring international artists whose practice involves text, the show will reflect Hepworth’s playful, interactive philosophy and will saturate the extensively renovated space with words.
Pulitzer Prize-winning UC San Diego composer Roger Reynolds’ newest cutting-edge work, “Sanctuary,” had its world premiere in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in November. Written for and featuring UCSD percussionists, the performance was the culmination of a three-year collaborative experiment combining live percussion with computer, sound and video technologies. The Washington Post took note.
Launching in Fall 2008, an innovative graduate program in dance theater will develop the “next generation of voices” in choreography. Encouraging interaction with other disciplines, the selective new program is intended to serve as “an intensive research lab for dance theater artists.”
A $100,000 matching gift has been pledged to support the Burke Lectureship, UC San Diego's series of public talks on religion and society, affiliated with the Center for the Humanities, which brings distinguished guests to the campus and community.
Virtuoso solo percussionist, music professor Steve Schick is winning plaudits in his new role as music director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.
Interim Arts and Humanities Dean Eric Van Young has been elected to the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Three graduate students from the Department of History are among five from UCSD who garnered Fulbright awards for their research.
A solo exhibition by Visual Arts MFA student Iana Quesnell at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego through Dec. 30 wins praise from the Union-Tribune art critic.
The Literature Department's
New Writing Series showcases new and established writers reading selections from their latest work.
The Center for the Humanities' lecture season continues in the Winter Quarter with the “Making of the Modern World, The Short Version.”
UCSD
stages light up again in January with Shakespeare’s “Pericles” and “The Physicists” by Swiss playwright and novelist Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Concerts from the Music Department feature renowned faculty, including clarinetist Anthony Burr who recently joined the department, and soon-to-be-renowned students.
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