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Literature Professor and Dean Seth Lerer talked about the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and the Starship Century Symposium on KPBS Radio "Midday Edition." (5.22.13)

History Professor Naomi Oreskes interviewed on KPBS Radio "Midday Edition" regarding climate change. (5.20.13)

On May 18, Theatre & Dance will be celebrating its 40th anniversary and honoring Arthur Wagner, founding chair of the department, for his legacy of innovative work and 90th birthday. (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. (5.13.13)

Rising filmmakers from the University will show their work at the 6th annual ArtPower! Up&Coming Film Festival this month. Professors Tara Knight (Theatre and Dance) and Michael Trigilio (Visual Arts) are among the jury panel. (5.8.13)

Dean Seth Lerer will be one of the speakers during the first TEDxUCSD, organized by undergraduate students, on May 11 at Jacobs Qualcomm Hall. (5.8.13)

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)

Filmmaker and Visual Arts Professor Louis Hock quoted in UT San Diego about his new documentary "The American Tapes: A Tale of Immigrations" which screens at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on May 11. The new film is a follow-up to Hock's "The Mexican Tapes: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law," which showed what happens to families as they gain U.S. citizenship after years of "undocumented" status. (5.3.13) Louis Hock interview. (5.9.13)

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)

Internationally renowned author and History Professor Naomi Oreskes gives Monfort Professor-in-Residence lecture, "When Knowledge Isn't Power: Science, Technology, and the Environment in the 21st Century," on May 2 at Colorado State University. (4.29.13)

Music Director and Professor Steven Schick conducts the LJS&C program "Old Worlds/New World" on May 4-5 at Mandeville Auditorium. (4.29.13) Review in UT San Diego. (5.6.13)

Literature Professor and Dean Seth Lerer is final speaker of UM President's Lecture Series. (4.27.13) Interview on Montana Public Radio, Lerer talks about his love of literature – and why he thinks reading and storytelling are important, whether you want to be a teacher or a doctor or a computer programmer. (4.29.13) Quoted about humanities adapting to digital age. (5.10.13)

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 KPBS Radio "Midday Edition" (5.8.13) Reviews: UT San Diego (5.9.13) LA Times. (5.9.13) Update (5.16.13)

Theatre Professor Yolande Snaith dances with 50 pairs of shoes in one-woman dance/theater performance, '100 Feet', on May 3-4 at the Wagner Dance Building. (4.25.13)

Curated by Music graduate student Meghann Welsh, the Experimental Opera series, Glottalopticon, opens on May 10 at Space 4 Art. (4.17.13)

Four works by Theatre's MFA playwrights to premiere at Wagner New Play Festival on April 17 to 27. This year the plays range in scope from the untold story of Picasso's best friend to the story of a Haitian-American immigrant struggling to make a life for herself in Miami. (4.15.13)

Literature Professor and Dean Seth Lerer's memoir, Prospero's Son, reviewed by John Wilkens in UT San Diego. (4.14.13) by Michael Bronski in San Francisco Chronicle (4.21.13) Interviewed on KPBS Radio "Midday Edition" (4.23.13) by Nick March in The National (UAE) (5.2.13) Reading and book signing at Warwick's on May 7, 7:30pm. (5.7.13)

Music's Springfest 2013 showcases student composers. This is a series of free performances at UCSD including an event at Birch Aquarium. (4.12.13)

Curator Michelle Hyun brings fresh ideas to University Art Gallery. 'We’d love your company' is the result of Hyun’s collaboration with New York artist Ethan Breckenridge, whom she invited to create the show. (4.11.13)

Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to give free talk entitled "Europe: A Continent in Decline or a Model for the Future?" on April 15 at the Great Hall. Click here to register. (4.4.13)

Contrabass virtuoso and Professor Mark Dresser leads 'Telematic Music Virtual Tour: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert Series.' Coordinated at UCSD, jazz musicians will be performing together from different geographic locations. (4.4.13) Update (4.5.13)

'Audacious Speculations' to highlight excitement of radical innovation on April 12 at Calit2 Auditorium. (4.3.13)

Celebrated Israeli novelist and peace activist Amos Oz to give free public talk at UCSD. (3.27.13)

University Art Gallery would 'Love your Company' at unique exhibition which runs through May 10 at Mandeville Center. (3.26.13)

Literature Professor and Dean Seth Lerer talks about the unique relationship between the Division of Arts and Humanities and Preuss School UCSD. (3.14.13)

The campus community is invited to join Theatre alumni Jefferson Mays and Kristen Brandt at The Old Globe. (3.14.13)

Seasoned composer and Professor Roger Reynolds explores sound, text and the audience's mind in new piece PASSAGE 9. (3.13.13)

Art meets engineering in new exhibitions at UCSD's Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) Building. (3.12.13)

History Professor Michael Provence publishes op-ed in UT San Diego about the consequences of the Iraq War. (3.7.13)

UC San Diego's Department of Visual Arts welcomes scholars, prospective students, and community members to the Annual Graduate Student Conference and Open Studios events taking place on March 9 at various locations. (3.1.13)

Composer and professor Anthony Davis' new opera Lear on the 2nd Floor premieres March 6, 8, 9 at CPMC Theatre. (3.1.13) Update (3.5.13)

Theatre and Dance alumni Danny Burstein featured in New York Times and Broadway World. (3.1.13)

History alumna Kelly Kovacic will be one of the honorees during the 2013 Alumni Celebration on June 8. (2.28.13)

Callithumpian Consort delivers memorable program of Professor and composer Lei Liang's music. (2.22.13)

Literature Professor and poet Rae Armantrout profiled in Chicago Tribune. (2.19.13)

History Professor Daniel Widener to be moderator of panel discussion "On Freedom's Front Line: Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Speak Out" on February 22 at the Geisel Library. (2.15.13)

Two new contemporary operas will premiere this spring. Composer Anthony Davis' Lear on the Second Floor plays on March 6, 8, and 9 while Susan Narucki's Cuatro Corridos, on May 8, 10 and 11 - both at the Conrad Prebys Music Center. (2.11.13)

Professor Ruben Ortiz-Torres talks about Kuka, a sculpting robot, recently acquired by Visual Arts for its fabrication lab. (2.11.13)

Theatre and Dance Professor Shahrokh Yadegari won the 2012 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Sound Design for the La Jolla Playhouse production of "Blood and Gifts". (2.5.13)

Calit2's Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) has an open call for proposals from faculty, students, artists, and researchers who want to stage performances on the cutting edge of digitally-mediated or enhanced music, visual arts, theatre and/or dance. (2.5.13)

Plains Indian ledger art exhibition, curated by UC San Diego students at San Diego Museum of Art, shares Native vision of American history. The exhibit, which grew out of a course co-taught by Visual Arts lecturer Terri Sowell, is on view through May 28th.  (2.4.13)

On February 5-7, Calit2 and the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination will host the S3D World Workshop on the Future of Stereoscopic 3D Cinema. (2.4.13)

Villa Musica brings together faculty and alumna with the Preuss School UCSD. This program strives to provide quality, accessible music education for San Diego community members of all ages and backgrounds. (2.1.13)

UC San Diego celebrates Black History Month throughout February. (2.1.13)

Literature Professor Anna Joy Springer wins the 2012-13 Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award in Performing and Visual Arts. (1.29.13) Update (3.14.13)

Literature Professor and Dean Seth Lerer quoted in UT San Diego in article about sci-fi collection donated to SDSU. (1.28.13)

Professors Nadine George of Theatre and Luis Alvarez of History are 2012 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards recipients. (1.18.13) Update (2.14.13)

History Professor Naomi Oreskes publishes op-ed in the Washington Post urging Obama to mobilize the nation’s scientists on climate change. (1.18.13) The Oregonian (1.21.13)

Professor Naomi Iizuka's century-spanning, culture-crossing play, "Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West," featured in Chicago-Sun Times. (1.18.13) Chicago Tribune (1.25.13)

Music, Literature, Visual Arts and Chinese Studies sponsor two-day interdisciplinary conference, "Canonical Forms in Evolution," on February 12-13. (1.17.13)

Visual Arts alumnus Nicholas Woodman is founder and CEO of GoPro, a billion dollar company. (1.15.13)

Making of the Modern World Lecture Series to focus on what it means to be musical. (1.10.13) Update: Borgo in San Diego Reader. (1.17.13) UCSD-TV (2.4.13)

Professor and composer/conductor Rand Steiger to be joined by the International Contemporary Ensemble including marvelous flutist Claire Chase for a free concert on January 11 at Calit2 Auditorium. (1.7.13)

Professor Emeritus and world renowned pianist Cecil Lytle to perform Beethoven at 17th Annual Scholarship Concert on January 27. Proceeds directly benefit Preuss School graduates attending UC San Diego. (1.4.13)

History Professor Mark Hanna to discuss "Pirates in Print: Seafaring Treasures of the Mandeville Special Collections Library" on January 16. This coincides with exhibition which runs through February 10 also at Geisel Library. (1.2.13) Update (1.3.13)