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.

Featured Events

May 26

Improvisation in Rast-Panjgah at Qualcomm Institute

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June 2-4

New Directions undergraduate dance

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June 11

UC San Diego All Campus Commencement

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• May 1: Mystery of Tanbur - Kurdish Music of Iran
• May 2: Kafka Fragments György Kurtág - Susan Narucki, soprano, Curtis Macomber, violin
• May 3: What we are to make of creative digital youth with guest speaker Josef Nguyen
• May 3: Working Women photography exhibit
• May 5: The Ants and the Grasshopper film screening and discussion with Raj Patel
• May 10: Science Fiction Writers from UC San Diego
• May 11: WEDS@7 Mark Dresser, bass - In the Shadow of a Mad King - An Evening of Solo and Duos
• May 11: Alex Rivera Seminar - an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization, migration, and technology
• May 13: "Between Truth and Power" and "Configuring the Network Self"
• May 16: Disability Performance: Culture, Community, Inclusion, and Activism
• May 17: Translation, Revolutionary Praxis, and Contradictions of Third World Liberation in Modern Iran (PDF) with guest Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
• May 17: Sounds and Images: Rediscovering Chinese Art via Music
• May 18: WEDS@7 Palimpsest
• May 18: Graduate Student Writers of Literary Arts – First Year Welcome reading
• May 19: Three Echologies: Scene 2, Planetary Echologies
• May 19: Transplanted Roots Concert #1
• May 19: Techno-Shamanism: Speculative Futures in Fiction
• May 20: Transplanted Roots: Keynote by alum Sarah Hennies: “The Innermost Recess: Pleiades, Percussion, Trauma and Utopia”
• May 20: Transplanted Roots Concert #2
• May 20: 12th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards
• May 21: Transplanted Roots Round-table discussion: Chou Wen-chung
• May 21: Transplanted Roots: Cells, Aggregations, Impact: Xenakis’s Creative Practice as Experience Roger Reynolds and Steven Schick in illustrated discussion
• May 21: Transplanted Roots: 2022 Reed Family Concert Xenakis Cabaret
• May 25: Holocaust Living History Workshop – “Holocaust Landscapes: The Spatiality of Death and Survival” with guest Tim Cole
• May 25: Graduate Student Writers of Literary Arts – Third Year Celebration reading
• May 26: Improvisation in Rast-Panjgah at Qualcomm Institute
• May 27: Philosophy colloquium series: "The Identity of Indiscernibles and Human Essence in Spinoza's Ethics"
• June 1, 3-4: Theatre and Dance performance: “Baal”
• June 2-4: New Directions, featuring undergraduate dancers
• June 11-12: All Campus Commencement, featuring keynote by alum Jessica Meir, Ph.D.

*Note: following guidelines from campus, each event organizer is following safetey protocols regarding their in-person or virtual evetns. Please check the link closely for complete information.

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