Category: UCSB news
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Lines of Sight: The Art of Coastal Knowledge in Nineteenth Century America
Kimia Shahi, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California Thursday Nov. 12, 4:30pm, Arts 1332 An unprecedented number of Americans looked shoreward during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. What they saw, and how, was increasingly mediated by visual representations. From artists’ growing embrace of seascape and marine subjects to…
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Archiving Resistance: Activating the Black Radical Tradition
UCSB receives scholars and activists from California and beyond to discuss archives as tools for liberation REGISTRATION OPEN How do we bring together a conversation about racism and misogyny at ‘home’, about Palestine, the DRC, and the recent rebellions of ‘the Cockroaches’, while recognizing our complicity or seeming powerlessness in confronting them? How may…
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Luis J. Rodriguez Papers Now Open for Research
The Luis J. Rodriguez papers at UCSB Library’s Department of Special Research Collections are processed and open to researchers. The finding aid is live on the Online Archive of California. Rodriguez was born in El Paso in 1954 and grew up in Watts, the San Gabriel Valley, and East Los Angeles. He joined the 1968 East…