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Jody Enders wins Lois Roth Translation Prize

Jody Enders, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, has been honored with the MLA's prestigious Lois Roth Prize in Literary Translation for her exceptional collection of French farces titled "Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries

UCSB Reads 2024

Now in its 18th year, UCSB Reads brings the campus and Santa Barbara communities together to read a common book that explores compelling issues of our time.

GCLR Distinguished Visiting Scholar - Ursula K. Heise

Distinguished visiting lecturer, Professor Ursula Heise from UCLA, comes to UCSB on May 4th to give a talk entitled, "Beyond Realism: Narrative and Environmental Crisis." Join us in the Wallis Anneberg Conference Room (Social Science and Media Studies Building, Room 4315) at 5 PM on Thursday, May 4, 2023.

RFG Talk: Color: Additions, Subtractions, Signals

Dr. Ricardo Cedeño Montaña is giving a presentation Wednesday, May 10th, during which he will describe some of the particular principles, mechanisms, and techniques by which color film functioned in its formative years and the coding schemes for (re)producing, storing, and transmitting color information in electronic and digital media.

UCSB alumna, Marzia Milazzo, publishes her first book, Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power

Marzia Milazzo just published her first book: Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power (Northwestern University Press, 2022).

UCSB student, Marzia Milazzo, Publishes her first book, Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power

Marzia Milazzo (PhD in Comparative Literature, with a doctoral emphasis in Global Studies, 2013) just published her first book: Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power (Northwestern University Press, 2022).

A talk by translator Michael Moore on the occasion of his recent translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

A talk by translator Michael Moore on the occasion of his recent translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed, followed by a conversation with Professors Giancarlo Tursi and Claudio Fogu.

Graduate Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2023 Thurs. 2-5pm

Professor Fabian Offert is offering a graduate seminar on Artificial Intelligence in the Spring of 2023. This lecture offeres perspectives from Critical Therory, Media Studies, Visual Studies, and Art and History on Visual Artificial Intelligence.