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Kabir in Song: A Night of North Indian Devotional Music
MCC Theater
The poetry of Kabir, the acclaimed 15th century poet-saint of North India, has had a transformative influence on both Hindu bhakti traditions and the Sikh scriptural tradition enshrined in the Adi Granth. Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his ensemble of singers make Kabir’s poems come to life in the joyful folk style of Madhya Pradesh’s Malwa region. Join us for a truly unique concert where Linda Hess, a leading scholar of Kabir, will present translations of the powerful poetry put to song.
*Purchase tickets online: $5 for UCSB students and youth under 12; $15 for general admission.
Resilient Love in a Time of Hate Series
Bridging Scholarship and Activism
MCC Lounge
By reflecting on his own personal trajectory from being a social-justice activist and social worker turned scholar and researcher, Bernd Reiter describes how moving through geographic and cultural spaces facilitates scholarly explorations of the contingencies between the freedoms associated with globalism and the human desire to find social connection. Reiter, Professor of Political Science at the University of South Florida, explores scholar-activism as it confronts the neoliberal university.
Cup of Culture
Starving the Beast
MCC Theater
Starving the Beast tells the story of a potent one-two punch roiling public higher education right now: 35 years of systematic defunding and a well financed market oriented reform effort. It’s the story of a little known and misunderstood ideological fight, the outcome of which will change the future of public higher education.
The film reveals an historic philosophical shift that reframes public higher education as a ‘value proposition’ to be borne by the student as a consumer, rather than an investment in citizens as a ‘public good’. Financial winners and losers emerge in a struggle poised to profoundly change public higher education.
The film vividly illustrates these issues in unfolding dramas at six public research universities: University of Wisconsin, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Louisiana State University, University of Texas, and Texas A&M. (English, 2016, 95 min)
Watch trailer: http://www.starvingthebeast.net/trailer/
Resilient Love in a Time of Hate Series
Black Liberation: The Rose that Grew from Concrete (Alicia Garza)
Campbell Hall
Social justice activist, organizer, and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, Alicia Garza shares her unflinching call-to-action against discrimination in the U.S. while galvanizing individuals to fight for freedom and justice for all Black lives. Alongside Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, Garza helped transform what was once a viral hashtag and social media force into a grassroots national organization and a global human rights movement. Currently the special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Garza has dedicated her life and career to fighting for equality and justice for all.
Presented by the Black Student Engagement Program and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Co-sponsored by Finance and Business Committee, Queer Commission, Isla Vista Community Relations Committee, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Education Opportunity Program, Office of Student Life, Department of Feminist Studies, and the Center for Black Studies Research.
