Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture Series
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Immigration – The Lessons of New York
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 @ 8:00 PM, Campbell Hall
Regents’ Lecturer in the College of Creative Studies
“Hamill has crafted a beautiful novel, rich in New York City detail
and ambiance, that showcases the power of human goodness and how love, in its
many forms, can prevail in an unfair world.” Publishers Weekly
Pete Hamill (Forever, A Drinking Life) has written extensively on news, art,
jazz, immigration and politics for numerous publications including the Daily
News and Esquire and authored 20 books. His most recent work North River, “[A]
wonderfully old-fashioned big, wet cinematic kiss of a novel” (Los Angeles
Times), offers a sentimental look at the Depression-era city and its immigrants,
laced with the vibrancy and rich detail that only New York City can inspire.
Co-presented by the Office of Academic Programs, the College of Creative Studies,
the College of Letters and Science, and the Department of English.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007 @ 8:00 PM, Campbell Hall
“Always insightful, these essays offer many shrewd observations about
the social, political and cultural landscape of contemporary America.” Publishers
Weekly
Award-winning author Rebecca Solnit (River of Shadows) has made a vocation
of journeying into difficult territory -- from the Pyrenees to the U.S.- Mexico
border -- and reporting back as an environmentalist and public intellectual.
Her newest book, Storming the Gates of Paradise, comprises a unique guidebook
to America after the millennium, inspired by the lucid prose and panoramic
world view that have made Solnit “a writer to get lost in” (San
Francisco Chronicle).
Co-presented with UCSB’s College of Creative Studies and Women’s
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Thursday, November 2, 2006 @ 4:00 PM, CCS Old Little Theater
Free Admission
Thursday, November 2, 2006 @ 8:00 PM, Campbell Hall
General public $10.00 / UCSB Students $8.00
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of a literati Mecca, the well-known City Lights
Bookstore, and one of the few living contributors to the great generation
of Beat poets, will read from his body of works. From the polemic to the mundane,
Ferlinghetti is a poet whose writing lends nuance to the everyday with a lyricism
that is grounded in craftsmanship, thematics, and tradition. Named the first
Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 1998, Ferlingetti’s A Coney Island
of the Mind continues to be one of the most popular poetry books in the U.S.
Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures and the UCSB College of Creative Studies.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
For more details visit:
http://www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
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 An Evening of Poetry
Thursday, April 13 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
Merwin is one of the great poets of our age. —Los Angeles Times
In a career spanning five decades, W.S. Merwin, poet, translator and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read writers in America. The Pulitzer Prize-winner returns to Santa Barbara to read from his densely imagistic, dream-like poems that are full of praise for the natural world. His recent collection Migration, containing more than 400 poems, was a landmark event in the literary world.
General public $10 / UCSB students $8
For more details visit:
http://www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
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 Embracing Humanity – Truth in a Time of War
Thursday, October 6 / 8 pm / Campbell Hall
Howard Zinn, playwright, activist and historian, is the beloved author
of the ground-breaking A People’s History of the United States. His
influential writings and teaching shine a light on and bring voice to
factory workers, immigrant laborers, African Americans, Native
Americans and the working poor. Zinn’s talk will explore the notion of
“just” wars with his usual candor and critical understanding.
General public $15 / UCSB students $10
For more details visit:
http://www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
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 Nickel and Dimed - On (Not) Getting by in America
Monday, April 11, 2005 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
Award-winning essayist and social critic Barbara
Ehrenreich will present an eye-opening lecture based on her
best-selling book Nickel and Dimed,
examining the lives of the working poor from the inside out. Ehrenreich
is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the UCSB College of Creative
Studies.
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 In Conversation with David L. Ulin
Thursday, November 18, 2004 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones was celebrated for its astonishing power to claim the hearts of millions of readers. Her work, including the powerful memoir Lucky, plumbs tragedy and grief. L.A. Weekly contributor David Ulin wrote The Myth of Solid Ground. Sebold is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the UCSB College of Creative Studies.
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 In Conversation with Pico Iyer
Wedensday, May 5, 2004 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning composer, singer, dancer and director
Meredith Monk will discuss ideas of home, the other, creativity and the
global soul in a conversation with acclaimed writer and part-time SB
resident Pico Iyer (Abandon).
Co-presented with the College of Creative Studies
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 An Evening with the Author
Monday, March 8, 2004 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
One of our best-loved authors Anne Lamott is known for her works like Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, and for her ruthless honesty and tender humor about topics like motherhood, alcoholism and faith.
Lamott is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the College of Creative Studies.
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 Filming on the Edge: Adventures in Guerrilla Documentary Filmmaking
Tuesday, November 25, 2003 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
From Albania to Kosovo to Liberia, dynamic, Emmy-winning filmmaker
Michael Davie brings us the world in dramatic and immediate footage.
Davie will interweave excerpts from his provocative films in his
thrilling talk.
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Victoria Riskin & David Rintels |
 Friday, May 2, 2003 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
Obie Award-winning playwright of the groundbreaking phenomenon The Vagina Monologues and Necessary Targets,
a powerful tale of the resilient human spirit in Bosnia, Eve Ensler
initiated V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women. An
indefatigable crusader for human rights and ardent taboo-breaker,
Ensler visualizes a violence-free world as the first step to achieving
universal safety for women. She is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in
the UCSB College of Creative Studies.
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 Rumi and the Play of Poetry
Thursday, March 13, 2003 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
Coleman Barks is the foremost translator of the 13th century Persian
mystic Rumi, currently the best-selling poet in North America. This
very special performance will feature Barks, accompanied by musicians
Barry and Shelly Phillips, reading the spiritual and beautiful words of
Rumi. Barks is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the UCSB College of
Creative Studies.
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 An Evening with the Photographer
Monday, November 4, 2002 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
Award-winning Magnum photographer Steve McCurry circles the globe to
make his moving photo-reports, including the compelling portrait, “The
Afghan Girl.” His illustrated lecture reveals his methods and motives.
He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the College of Creative
Studies. Co-presented with Brooks Institute of Photography.
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 History, the Future and the Writer's Obligation
Wednesday, February 20, 2002 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist and former Peruvian
presidential candidate, mixes titillation, truth and fancy in his
provocative books, including The War of the End of the World, Aunt
Julia and the Script Writer and The Feast of the Goat. He is a
Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the College of Creative Studies.
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Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman |
 An Evening of Poetry
Friday, November 2, 2001 / UCSB Campbell Hall / 8 pm
Teacher, activist, translator and former U.S. poet
laureate Robert Hass is author of Praise and Sun under Wood. Loose
Sugar, Brenda Hillman’s fifth collection, was nominated for the 1998
National Book Critics’ Circle Award in poetry. Hass and Hillman are
Distinguished Visiting Fellows in the College of Creative Studies.
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Peter R. Grant & Rosemary Grant |
 Evolution in Action - Darwin's Finches of the Galapagos Islands
Monday, May 21, 2001 / UCSB Corwin Pavilion / 4 pm
Subjects of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The
Beak of the Finch, Peter and Rosemary Grant will discuss their 20 years
of research into evolution, ecology and behavior among Darwin’s Finches
of the Galápagos Islands. Distinguished Visiting Fellows in the College
of Creative Studies, the Grants are professors at Princeton University.
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 An Evening with the Author
Friday, April 27, 2001 / Victoria Hall in Santa Barbara / 8 pm
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand
Acres and the comic novel Moo, Jane Smiley explores the world of horse
racing, and the universal human desire to connect, in her recent,
spirited novel Horse Heaven. She is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in
the College of Creative Studies.
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 A Japanese Writer's Reality
An Afternoon with the Author and Nobel Prize Laureate
Thursday, June 1, 2000 / UCSB Corwin Pavilion / 4 pm
Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature,
Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe’s books, including A Personal Matter, The Silent
Cry, A Quiet Life and Hiroshima Notes, are infused with humanism,
brooding darkness and vivid reality. One of the most original, prolific
and important writers of our time, Oe’s body of work has won almost
every major international literary honor.
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 Educating the American Adolescent
Thursday, May 11, 2000 / UCSB Hatlen Theatre / 8 pm
President of Bard College in New York, music
director of the American Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of
the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra, Leon Botstein recently
authored Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American
Culture. He also edits The Musical Quarterly.
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