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Michael Ignatieff
Virtual War and the Future of Intervention
Thursday, January 11 / 4 p.m. / Campbell Hall / Free
Internationally renowned journalist and author of the prize-winning TV series and book Blood and Belonging, Michael Ignatieff explores modern combat and emerging concerns about the morality of high-tech military action.
 
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Greg Sarris
An Afternoon with the Author
Wednesday, January 31 / 4 p.m. / Corwin Pavilion / Free
Chairman of The Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria (formerly known as the Federated Coast Miwok Tribe) and an important literary voice exploring Native American life, Greg Sarris wrote the short story collection Grand Avenue, which became a Robert Redford-produced HBO teleplay. He’ll read from his recent novel Watermelon Nights, in which he further illuminates the fragile ties that bind Native American families in their struggles for freedom and dignity.
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
How Art Shapes Our Experience of Space and Time
Tuesday, February 6 / 5 p.m. / Isla Vista Theater / Free
The foremost contemporary Russian installation artist Ilya Kabakov, and his wife Emilia, create large-scale constructions that evoke, with wit and irony, life under Soviet totalitarian rule.
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Jane Hirshfield
An Afternoon with the Poet
Wednesday, February 7 / 4 p.m. / Corwin Pavilion / Free
In verse called “radiant and passionate” by The New York Times, Jane Hirshfield’s four volumes of poetry articulate the interconnection of human and natural worlds. She’ll read from her new collection.
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Anthony Shadid
Legacy of the Prophet
Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam
Thursday, February 8 / 4 p.m. / Corwin Pavilion / Free
Boston Globe reporter and longtime Cairo correspondent for the Associated Press, Anthony Shadid reveals the new, democratic direction in Islamic politics.
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Best of the 25th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival
Friday, February 23 / 7:30 p.m. / Campbell Hall
Our most popular annual event: an evening of films about outdoor adventure, mountain life and the environment that are riveting, riotous and reverent.
General public: $12, Students: $8
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SPECIAL EVENT
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
with live music by members of the UCSB Middle East Ensemble
Saturday, February 24 / 8 p.m. / Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Thrilling, heartrending, incredible. —Los Angeles Times
Back by popular demand: this silent film chronicles the migration of Bakhtiari nomads and their flocks across mountains and raging rivers to pastures in Persia.
(Merion Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack & Marguerite Harrison, 1925, 70 min.)
General public: $10, Students: $5
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Presented with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
W.S. Merwin
An Evening with the Poet
Friday, March 30 / 7:30 p.m. / Fleischmann Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Natural History
In this rare public appearance, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, translator and environmentalist W.S. Merwin will read from his five decades of work, the most recent of which includes a collection of verse titled The River Sound and a translation of Dante’s Purgatorio.
General public: $15, Students and SBMNH members: $10
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Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, books by the presenter will be available for purchase and/or signing at the event.
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