Woman Grinding Corn, ceramic, Western Mexico, 200 BCE, 200 CE, AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara, 2017.015.013 (photograph by Moises Guerrero Gallegos). Moises Guerrero Gallegos has published an essay on one of the AD&A Museum’s ceramic figurines, Woman Grinding Corn, in the new issue of Imagine: A Promise & McNair Scholars Undergraduate Journal. The piece, “Fragments of History: The…
Please join us for a special symposium to mark the official inauguration of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Research, next Friday, May 15th, at 1 pm, in the McCune Room (HSSB 6020). We will gather to hear about the research and activities of the CLAIR Labs, followed by a keynote address by documentary…
Melanie Carvantes UCSB Library’s California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives (CEMA), Las Maestras Center for Xican[X] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Praxis; and the Mellichamp Chairs for Racial Environmental Justice Fund are pleased to announce the Artist in Residence: Melanie Cervantes. This collaboration includes the Art Department and Santa Barbara Public Library and will bring the…
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use Telar, an open-source platform for building interactive visual narratives around high-resolution images. Telar produces free-standing websites using a minimal-computing approach — no servers, no databases, no installation, and no ongoing maintenance costs. Participants will work through the full workflow: setting up a project on GitHub,…
April 28 – May 2 / Zoom, with in-person coffee meetups and a closing reception on campus. How are you using AI to enhance work, learning, teaching, research or community well-being at UC Santa Barbara? We invite all community members to submit your idea for a spotlight presentation or digital poster focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
Indigenous Futures in Higher Education When: Friday – Sunday, February 21-23, 2025 Where: University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB) https://sites.google.com/view/2025aiicsymposium Keynote Speakers: AMANDA TACHINE, Assistant Professor in Educational Studies at the University of Oregon; Author of NativePresence and Sovereignty in College CUTCHA RISLING-BALDY, Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly…