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UCSB GCLR presents their third Visiting Scholars virtual event on Monday, May 10th at 11:00 a.m. PST. For more information and to register, visit: https://t.co/jP0JlWhL7j

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@UCSBGlobal Colloquium Series presents Jernej Habjan's A World Literature Imagined Worldwide: From Karl Marx’s Weltliteratur to Nicolas Sarkozy’s littérature-monde, Hosted by Prof. Elisabeth Weber on Mar. 3 from 12:30-2:00 p.m. PST. Visit https://t.co/Fy9hRmbstF for event info.

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On Friday, March 5th, @EMC_Imprint presents "Bodies and Borders: A Conversation Between Dr. Letty García and Madeline Sayet," starting at 2:00 p.m. PST. For more information and to register for Zoom event, please visit: https://t.co/57Gw73i1Yk

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Join the IHC Research Focus Group Sustainability and the New Human's discussion about narratives of crisis in postcolonial Calcutta with PhD candidate Somak Mukherjee on February 22 at 5pm PST! Read more and register here: https://t.co/0SkdAoIQhN

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Congratulations to @EBBA_Ballads (a project directed by Distinguised Professor Patricia Fumerton) and @UCSB_English for winning @RSAorg’s Digital Innovation Award which recognizes excellence in digital projects supporting the study of the Renaissance!

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Please mark your calendars: On February 19, at 5pm, UCSB GCLR is hosting their second Grad Student Roundtable. For more information, visit https://t.co/GetYHXtabk

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CFP: Central European Cultures is accepting articles between 6-10K words. Priority will be given to comparative and interdisciplinary addressing cultural and linguistic areas of Central Europe. Deadline for submission is Mar 31st. For more info visit: https://t.co/HsW6anctwk

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As part of their "Humanities Decanted" serie, @ihcucsb presents Dwight Reynolds (Prof., Religious Studies) in a talk on his new book, "The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus" on Feb. 18th at 4:00 p.m. Visit https://t.co/y9UnKiKlFO to register.

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As part of their "Visiting Scholars" series, the UCSB Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR) will host renowned scholar David Damrosch on January 26th from 10 to 11 a.m. For more information and to receive the Zoom link for the event, please visit https://t.co/jP0JlWzmvT

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The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies presents the official launch of Domenico Ingenito's (Asst. Prof.) "Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry," on Wed, Jan. 27th at 10:00 a.m. PST. To register, visit https://t.co/NRLeamZfbR

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As part of their "Living Democracy" series, @ihcucsb presents "Land-Grab Universities," a talk by Tristan Ahtone & Robert Lee on Friday, Jan 22nd at 12:00 p.m. For more information, visit https://t.co/I91CM9VcwF

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COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County continues to spread at an alarming rate, and public health officials expect to see high case rates continue through January. No-cost testing by appointment is available to all #UCSB students through the winter quarter. https://t.co/iuJ10vSVt7

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Book giveaway starts today!

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.@CenterUCSB is presenting journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who will speak this Tuesday at 5 p.m. via Zoom as part of the UCSB Arts and Lectures series Race to Justice. Ta-Nehisi is a MacArthur Fellow and author of the National Book Award-winning Between the World and Me.

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CFP: the Department of French & Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking submissions for their annual Graduate Student Symposium! Deadline has been extended to January 24th. Visit https://t.co/J9hUpwbziL for more information.

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@ArtsandLectures presents Ta-Nehisi Coates in their "Race to Justice" virtual event on Tuesday, January 12th at 5:00 p.m. Free for UCSB students! For more information, visit https://t.co/TWPt0ZNpcK

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Reminder for UCSB faculty and graduate students: Applications are due Friday, January 15 for the IHC's Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Award and Graduate Collaborative Award. Visit https://t.co/eHbeo6fdoB for complete award details and application instructions.

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Be sure to join us Wednesday at 11:30 AM for "Amulet Tales: Political and Spiritual Economies of Healing in Egypt" by Taylor M. Moore [@tibbalrukka], a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the @UCSBHistory Department.

Details here: https://t.co/rdw6fLZnmQ

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BOOK GIVEAWAY: UCSB students can come by the @UCSBbookstore between 11 AM - 1 PM next week (Jan. 11-15) to pick up a free copy of the #UCSBReads2021 pick, "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir." We look forward to reading with you!