Events that Serve the Community

The UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities is committed to serving the campus community, as well as the greater San Diego community, with programs that push boundaries, challenge expectations, and drive innovation. Our programs help others understand the human condition and improve the common good by targeting excellence and articulating the distinctiveness of the arts and humanities at UC San Diego.

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Feb 6, 7, 8

MFA Dance Thesis II: An Object, Screaming

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Feb 12

New Writing Series with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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Feb 29

Graduate Open Studios

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Feb. 7-8: Cultured Data Symposium

How can data science and the arts and humanities learn from one another? The growing digitization of the cultural record creates a new state of cultured data: culture as data, and data as a driver of culture.

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A Selection of Campus-Wide Events

• Feb. 1: Reed Family Concert: Beethoven Interpolations
• Feb. 2 – 8: Festival of New Trumpet Music WEST 2020
• Feb. 3: Visual Arts guest lecture with Nao Bustamante
• Feb. 3: Genopolitics: Biotechnology Norms and the Liberal International Order with guest Jonathan D. Moreno
• Feb. 3: Felipe Rossi, composition - Graduate Recital
• Feb. 3: “Late Antique Caesarea - A City of Interreligious and Intercultural Encounters” (PDF), annual Vassiliadis guest lecture
• Feb. 3: Science Studies Colloquium Series featuring Nir Shafir: Forging Islamic Science
• Feb. 6: Bodies for Science and Nation: Reproduction, Bioeconomy, and Nationalism in South Korea (PDF) with guest Yeonbo Jeong
• Feb. 6: ArtPower! presents Cha Wa
• Feb. 6: "Celebrate Black History Month with a screening of Harriet!" (PDF)
• Feb. 6, 7, 8: MFA Dance Thesis II: “An Object, Screaming,” directed by Paulina Colmenares
• Feb. 7: Workshop on Women's Suffrage and Empire with Rebecca Jo Plant, guests Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Lisa Materson, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
• Feb. 7: ArtPower! presents Alicia Olatuja
• Feb. 7: Alexandria Smith, trumpet - Graduate Recital
• Feb. 7 – 8: Cultured Data Symposium: Growing Dialogue Between Data Science and the Arts and Humanities
• Feb. 7 – 8: 2020 Triton Leaders Conference + Celebration
• Feb. 8 – 9: La Jolla Symphony & Chorus
• Feb. 9: David Borgo: 50
• Feb. 10: Camera Lucida: Ravel, Beethoven, Brahms
• Feb. 10: Science Studies Colloquium Series featuring guest Olivia Weisser, Poxed and Ravished Bodies in the Eighteenth Century
• Feb. 11: "福島は語る Fukushima Speaks" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Toshikuni Doi
• Feb. 12: Urban, Diverse, Invisible: The Paradigm of Social Housing after Welfare State Transformation in Germany (PDF) with guest Barbara Schönig
• Feb. 12: New Writing Series featuring guest Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
• Feb. 12: Visual Arts guest lecture with Milijohn Ruperto
• Feb. 12: ArtPower! presents Msaki and the Golden Circle
• Feb. 12: WEDS@7 Mexican Music (Mostly Not)
• Feb. 12 – 15: Much Ado About Nothing
• Feb. 13: Blood Libel in a Russian Town: The Velizh Affair (PDF) with guest Eugene Avruti
• Feb. 13: Changing Tides II - A Telematic Translocational Concert
• Feb. 14: Soiree for Music Lovers
• Feb. 14: ArtPower! presents Doric String Quartet
• Feb. 14 - 15: "Ironbound," a graduate theater production
• Feb. 15: Schallfeld Ensemble
• Feb. 19: Holocaust Living History Workshop: “Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma” with guest Amit Pinchevski
• Feb. 19: WEDS@7 red fish blue fish
• Feb. 20: ArtPower! presents Deirdre Bair
• Feb. 20: AI at the Edgelands with guest Kate Crawford
• Feb. 21: Juliana Gaona Villamizar, oboe - Graduate Recital
• Feb. 21: Philosophy Colloquium Series with guest Pamela Hieronymi
• Feb. 24: Visual Arts guest lecture with Daniel Guzmán
• Feb. 24: Science Studies Colloquium Series featuring guest Margaret Schabas, “On the Cautious Observation of Everyday Life”: Hume and the Science of Economics
• Feb. 25: World Bookmark Day
• Feb. 26: New Writing Series featuring guest Dmitry Kuzmin
• Feb. 26: ArtPower! presents Black String
• Feb. 26: Aeschylus' Oresteia and Athenian Politics featuring guest Constance M. Carroll
• Feb. 26: WEDS@7 Palimpsest
• Feb. 27: ArtPower! presents Jamison Ross
• Feb. 28: "The Racial Imaginary at Work in Poetry and Visual Arts" (PDF) with guest Claudia Rankine
• Feb. 28: Severe Weather Event Attribution: Why Values Won’t Go Away with guest Eric Winsberg
• Feb. 28, 29: Countertechnologies @ The Edgelands Conference
• Feb. 28, 29, Mar. 6, 7: Orestes 2.

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