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Craft Artists Rewrite Borderland Narratives in New Exhibit

February 12, 2025

The campus and community are invited to a double arts feature on March 1 with the opening celebration for Mandeville Art Gallery’s “Border Craft” exhibit and the Department of Visual Arts’ Graduate Open Studios event.

Costume Design Students Stitch Storytelling and Style

January 29, 2025

Two graduate design students in the Department of Theatre and Dance invited us behind the scenes as they created costumes for two recent plays that centered on power dynamics and societal expectations. Discover the research, collaboration and artistic talent required to bring these stories to the stage.

Joint $3M Grant Strengthens Pathway for Transfer Students to Study and Work in the Arts and Humanities

January 21, 2025

A multiyear collaboration between UC San Diego’s School of Arts and Humanities and the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) to increase the number of students studying and embarking on successful careers in the arts and humanities is receiving a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, the third grant garnered since the program’s inception in 2016.

Nancy Guy Named Inaugural Chiu-Shan and Rufina Chen Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies

January 16, 2025

Nancy Guy, an ethnomusicologist and professor of music at UC San Diego, has dedicated her career to studying the music of Taiwan. From the way environmental concerns seep into songs to how politics proliferate opera, Guy is passionate about discovering and sharing the diverse ways music shapes culture and society in Taiwan. Now, Guy has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Chiu-Shan and Rufina Chen Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities in support of her research and teaching activities.

10th Annual Reed Family Concert Showcases the Best in New Music

January 7, 2025

This January a three-part series of events will be held in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Reed Family Concert, an annual showcase of musical innovation at the University of California San Diego led by Distinguished Professor of Music Steven Schick. The celebration also recognizes the 30-year tenure of red fish blue fish, a beloved and highly acclaimed percussion ensemble created and directed by Schick that performs, records and premieres work from the last 85 years of western percussion’s rich history.

Philosopher Eddy Keming Chen Receives $325K Grant to Explore the Nature of Reality

November 25, 2024

Eddy Keming Chen, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego School of Arts and Humanities, has been awarded a $325,000 grant to explore the nature of quantum foundations.

Award-Winning Film Reanimates Queer Culture of 1970s South Korea

November 20, 2024

Fifty years ago in Seoul, South Korea, there was a vibrant queer hub located in the Euljiro neighborhood where theaters and bars served as popular sites for same-sex encounters. In 2020, Associate Professor of History Todd A. Henry returned to the area to search for remnants that would offer clues about the evolution of gay subculture from the 1950s until the 1980s, resulting in an award-winning documentary film.

The Curious Allure of Gothic Gore and Vampire Lore

October 31, 2024

Lillian Lu, an assistant professor of literature in the School of Arts and Humanities, has always been drawn to gothic stories. She is currently writing a conference paper on the 2022 television adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire,” as well as taking a transhistorical look at how contemporary authors of the Asian diaspora are adapting novels from the 18th century.
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