The Wildling Museum is sponsoring an art contest with cash prizes! Deadline is Monday, May 20, 2019.

We live in a world of maps and networks. GPS enabled phones allow us to instantly locate ourselves on the earth’s surface, guide us to stores or restaurants, or announce to the world our location through social media. Likewise, programs like Google Earth and desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized our engagement with maps, map-making, and have challenged traditional notions of space and place.

The proliferation of GIS technologies and the “spatial turn” in digital humanities has also provided new avenues for challenging assumptions about the representations of past societies, the nature of empire, and the reach of imperial power. Despite their aesthetic beauty, traditional print maps, with clearly delineated static borders, often artificial naming conventions, and fixed viewpoints do not convey the complexity and uncertainty of the past.

Ancient societies and empires were far from static; they were networks of complex interactions and fierce contestation which unfolded in geographic space. This talk demonstrates how the use of new digital methodologies, gazetteers, and Linked Open Data (LOD) resources can be used to model and study these networks, and how new mapping techniques are transforming our understanding of ancient empire. Using the Attalid Kingdom as a guide, this talk examines the theory and practicalities of building an entity-relationship gazetteer and how to align it with LOD resources. It then addresses the construction of networks in desktop software, the impact of networks on cartography, and how new maps and digital models provided unique insights into the study of ancient Greek garrisons. The talk will then end with a brief overview of how Pleiades and other ancient world digital initiatives, including the Pelagios project’s Recogito platform, are developing new tools to enable the research and mapping of ancient networks.

Ryan Horne earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina where he had the opportunity to work extensively with the Ancient World Mapping Center. Dr. Horne’s talk will explore how to integrate the study of maps and networks to study the ancient world, using the Hellenistic Attalid kingdom as a model.

UCSB graduate student Cloe Gentile (Musicology) will present a talk titled "The Pan-American Bolero and María Grever’s Idealized Woman" on Wednesday, May 29th from 3:30-4:45 pm in Room 1145 in the Music Building. Research supported by the Graduate Diversity Fellowship sponsored through the Graduate Research Mentorship Program. Presented by UCSB Music History and Theory Forum.

Please join us in celebrating our 2018-19 Faculty Fellows, whose works-in-progress are supported this year by IHC release-time awards. Fellows will give a short presentation of their work. A reception will follow.

The Santa Barbara County Education Office is pleased to present the annual Showcase of Innovative Learning on May 21, 2019, from 4-7 p.m.

Art Without Limits hosts May BizArts Workshop, "Navigating the World of Contemporary Art" with Art Without Limits, on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 from 5:00-7:00pm.

The Young Feminists Committee of the Santa Barbara Political Women’s Committee joins with Planned Parenthood’s Young Advocates to bring you another exciting SUNSET CRUISE.

Based on Edmundo Desnoes’ novel and presented here in a new 4k restoration, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) is a fictional meditation on disillusionment in post-revolutionary Cuba. Left behind by his wife and family, the protagonist Sergio elects to remain in Havana following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, an historical moment that

Leigh VanHandel (Associate Professor of Music Theory, Michigan State University) will present a talk titled "Working Memory and Music Theory Fundamentals" on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 from 3:30-4:45 pm in Music Room 1145. Sponsored by UCSB Music History and Theory Forum.

This juried competition features Santa Barbara Unified School District students’ Career Technical Education Woodshop and Construction Technology projects.

The public is invited to join the World Business Academy’s Global Citizens Club for a panel discussion on Wednesday May 22 focusing on the best transportation strategy that balances the area’s environmental, housing and quality-of-life needs

You don’t want to miss this college bound young woman’s presentation on her field experiences with the condor recovery program.

Presented by Teodelina Martelli