Dr. Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Professor of Musicology at Ohio State University, will present a public lecture, "The International Agenda of America’s Music Clubs," on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from 3:30-4:45 pm in Music Room 1145 on the UCSB campus. The event will be presented as part of the 2019 Geiringer Lecture Series and will be hosted by Music History and Theory Forum and sponsored by the Geiringer Lecture Fund.

Why do so many U.S. scientists continue to lean on the language of apolitical science, even as political leaders display less and less interest in scientists’ claims to expertise, or even the existence of facts? In a new book, Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science, historian Audra J. Wolfe suggests

A focus on student actors has often led historians of Japan to dismiss the idea of epochal change in “the long 1968.” This talk adopts the perspective of the older generation of Japanese social scientists to show these years as a watershed in the basis of authoritative knowledge. The existing historiography often presents these scholars as reactionary. I show how they, in concert with their colleagues abroad, actually anticipated and indeed accelerated epistemological revolution.

Born in the two decades from 1900-1920, “transwar” social scientists assumed leadership of their disciplines in the 1930s and maintained intellectual hegemony across the chronological divide of World War II. They were linked by shared demographic characteristics and, more importantly, through a common commitment to objectivity. Transcending the domestic intellectual community, conviction in objectivity drew together a transnational network of scholars able to trust and engage with each other’s work. I show how, during the 1960s, their critiques of the postwar order (that they themselves had built) led to the dethronement of objectivity as the hallmark of epistemological legitimacy, and to their own exit from the universities. I conclude by looking at their younger replacements, who inaugurated subjective, activist, and particularist paradigms of knowledge.

UC Santa Barbara will present the second annual UCSB Arts Walk on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from 4:30-8 p.m. at various locations across the UCSB campus. Sponsored by UCSB’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts with presentations from the UCSB Library, Department of Music, MultiCultural Center, Department of Theater and Dance, Department of Art, College of Creative Studies, and Art, Design, & Architecture Museum, the event will give students, faculty, staff, and community members the opportunity to visit galleries and studios, watch preview performances and behind the scenes rehearsals, and participate in programming designed to highlight the artistic creativity and talent of the UCSB community, all free of charge.

Join MIT Enterprise Forum for a lecture on CyberSecurity: 5th Generation Threats on Wednesday, April 17th from 5-8pm

Bestselling author and Santa Barbara native, T.C. Boyle returns to Parallel Stories to read from his new novel exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities. "Outside Looking In" deals with the early years of LSD, from its first synthesis by Albert Hofmann in 1943, to the time when it broke free of strictly psychiatric use and set society afire in the Harvard-based experimentation of the 1960s. Boyle could not be more timely, as he examines through his fiction what it might mean now that psychedelic drugs are once again being used clinically. And, yes, says the author, "Dr. Leary does appear as a subsidiary character in this one, just as Dr. Kinsey appeared in my novel The Inner Circle and Dr. Kellogg in The Road to Wellville." Join SBMA for an utterly engaging and occasionally trippy look at the nature of reality, identity, and consciousness through the idiosyncratic and always entertaining lens of T.C. Boyle.

Book signing to follow.

Cup of Culture
The Feminist On CellBlock Y
Wed, April 17th, 6 PM
Film/MCC Theater

A convicted felon, Richard Edmond-Vargas, builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California. The movement grew from the education the inmates received by participating in a self-run program, which teaches that to be a “proper man” you don’t have to be emotionless and violent. Post film discussion with Richard Edmond-Vargas himself. 1h 15m

café KITP is a "physics café" which begins with a presentation by a speaker (usually a postdoctoral physicist) and is followed by questions and provocations facilitated by an interlocutor who inspires the audience to engage with the subject and the speaker. Food and drink are available for purchase and there is no cover charge.

The UCSB Department of Music will present a Guest Artist Masterclass led by Dr. Aaron Hill (Assistant Professor of Oboe, University of Nevada, Reno) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 6:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall on the UCSB campus. Dr. Hill will work with members of the UCSB Oboe Studio, led by Gabrielle Castriotta.

A singular figure in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes, sitar player Anoushka Shankar’s outstanding musicianship is marked by a calligraphic dexterity and profound emotion.

The UCSB Department of Music will present a Guest Artist Masterclass led by musician and composer Anthony Plog on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from 11 am-12 pm in Room 1219, then from 12-1:30 pm in Room 1145 in the UCSB Music Building. Members of the UCSB Brass Performance Class will perform.

Anthony Plog has had a rich and varied international career in music—as a composer of operas, symphonic music, and chamber works; as an orchestral musician, soloist, and recording artist; and as a brass teacher and coach at some of the great music conservatories internationally and now online to students around the world.

How will the climate crisis affect our community? What are we seeing? What can we do? This forum will look at the impacts for our region overall and focus on two areas of impacts: sea-level rise and human health effects.