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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Oct 10

A Conversation about the History of Casting

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Oct 25

'Minding the Gap' Film Screening and Discussion

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Oct 30

Longenecker Roth Artist in Residence

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Homecoming 2019

One Week, 20+ Awesome Events. UC San Diego alumni, students, staff, faculty, family and friends — come experience UC San Diego’s nontraditional Homecoming Oct. 18-20!

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A Selection of Campus-Wide Events

• Through Oct. 2: Continuity and Innovation in Traditional Chinese Painting
• Sept. 23-27: UC San Diego Welcome Week
• Sept. 24: New Student Welcome Convocation
• Sept. 26: Celebrate the Arts Welcome Week Festival
• Sept. 27: First-Generation Welcome Social
• Oct 1-2: Big Data Tools & Techniques Workshop
• Oct. 2: Literature New Writing Series with guest Craig Santos Perez
• Oct. 3: Holocaust Living History Workshop: “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil” with guest Susan Neiman
• Oct. 4: Philosophy Colloquium Series with guest Evan Thompson
• Oct. 4: “Stem Cell Ethics: Human Brain Organoids,” cosponsored by the Institute for Practical Ethics
• Oct. 4, 5, 11, 12: Triton Series October 2019
• Oct. 6, 8: Keir GoGwilt, Music Graduate Recital
• Oct 7: Helen Edison Lecture Series presents Contemporary Art and Performance in Public Spaces
• Oct. 7: Encounters: Carnatic-Hindustani-Jazz
• Oct. 8: ArtPower! Presents Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition
• Oct. 9: IDEAS: New Works for Percussion
• Oct. 10: “A Conversation about the History of Casting” with Theatre and Dance guest Brian Herrera (PDF)
• Oct. 10: Sean Dowgray, percussion, Music Graduate Recital
• Oct. 10: “Between Thingness and Being” exhibition and artist talk with Terike Haapoja and Visual Arts professor Pinar Yoldas
• Oct. 10: Processing Poets’ Voices: Machine(-Aided) Listening & the Poetry Audio Archive
• Oct. 14: Science Studies Colloquium with guest John Cheney-Lippold
• Oct. 14: Camera Lucida: Bridge, Bartok, Shostakovich
• Oct. 15: “Playing the Flute in Shanghai: the Musical Life of Dai Shuhong” film screening
• Oct. 16: “Physician Burnout,” cosponsored by the Institute for Practical Ethics
• Oct. 17: Dispatches From The Border Zone: Geometries of State Transformation in the China—Southeast Asia Border Region and Beyond
• Oct. 17-20: La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival 2019
• Oct. 18: ArtPower! Presents Escher Quartet with Jason Vieaux
• Oct. 18 – 20: UC San Diego Homecoming
• Oct. 20: Ali Azimi Live in San Diego
• Oct. 21: Science Studies Colloquium with Philosophy Ph.D. student Travis Chamberlain
• Oct. 23: Literature New Writing Series with guest Amy Berkowitz
• Oct. 23: ArtPower! Presents Matthew Whitaker
• Oct. 24: 20th Anniversary of Professor Zeinabu Davis’ Film “Compensation”
• Oct. 24: “Beyond The Pressure to Perform: On the Concept of ‘Leistung’ in 19th Century Germany” by History guest Nina Verheyen
• Oct. 24: Holocaust Living History Workshop: “Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties: From The Ancient Law to The Jazz Singer” with guest Charles Musser
• Oct. 25: Institute of Arts and Humanities Community, Arts and Resistance and Challenging Conversations series: Film Screening of “Minding the Gap” and Discussion About Race, Mental Health, and Community with guest Keire Johnson
• Oct. 25: Philosophy Colloquium Series with guest John MacFarlane
• Oct. 25-27: Birch Aquarium’s Haunted Aquarium: Sea Monster Mash
• Oct. 28: Science Studies Colloquium with associate professor Morana Alac
• Oct. 30: Longenecker Roth Artist in Residence guest lecture featuring Diedrick Brackens
• Oct. 30: “Cities on the Edge of War: Teaching Greek History Through a Strategy Role-Playing Game,” with guest Eric Robinson

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