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EVENTS
2 | UCR Spring 2013
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“Monuments of Void: Wolf Von
Dem Bussche’s Photographs of
the Twin Towers”
6.1-7.6
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“Geographies of Detention”
6.1-9.7
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“Around the World in Forty
Pictures”
6.1-7.27
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Concert of Mexican Music and
Dance
6.6
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Music of Indonesia: UCR
Gamelan Ensemble
6.7
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Commencement 2013
6.14-6.17
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Video Game Design and Content
Creation — Information Session
6.15
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Chancellor’s Dinner
10.19
HAPPENINGS
This exhibit looks at the recontextualization of the World Trade
Center towers alongside the issues of memorialization and the
meanings associated with sites and images post-9/11.
Through the photos, we, as the viewers, see the towers in a
different aesthetic light that forcefully defamiliarizes us with the
subject.
Presented on two floors of the California Museum of Photography,
“Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden
Gulag” combines historical and contemporary photography, film
and first-person audio interviews to examine how the naval base
has been “closed” and reopened for more than a century leading
up to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. These new perspectives on
Guantánamo’s history as a “legal black hole” provoke discussions
about the limits of democracy and the meaning of mass
incarceration in a global present and future.
Celebrating the CMP’s 40th anniversary, “Around the World in
Forty Pictures” takes as inspiration the classic novel “Around the
World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne, first published in 1873. The
exhibition culls 40 pictures from the Keystone-Mast Collection
(part of the CMP permanent collection) to retrace the steps of
Verne’s colorful characters as they circumnavigate the globe.
The UCR Studio for Mexican Music and Dance features student
vocals and instrumentation in Mexican ranchera-style music, with
UCR’s Mariachi Mexicatl performing live with the UCR Ballet
Folklorico. The ballet company will perform choreography from
the Mexican regions of Michoacán and Nayarit.
Experience a variety of Indonesian gamelan music from profound
to lighthearted and serious to sentimental. A gamelan is an
ensemble of instruments that includes a set of tuned bronze
gongs suspended from a carved serpentine dragon, metal-keyed
instruments, xylophones and drums. The UCR Gamelan Ensemble
performs traditional and contemporary Indonesian music.
UCR will hold seven commencement ceremonies June 14 through
17 on the Pierce Hall lawn, near the bell tower. More than 3,000
students are expected to make their way across the stage during
the four days of the 59th annual event.
Learn about UCR Extension’s Specialized Professional Program in
Video Game Design and Content Creation Summer Academy. For
serious participants, the full program offers approximately 100
hours of professional-level instruction. Parking is free
for attendees.
Save the date! The fifth annual Chancellor’s Dinner will be held
on Oct. 19 at the Highlander Union Building. Enjoy the company
of UCR friends, alumni, students and community members as
we come together in support of our best and brightest scholars,
artists, leaders and volunteers.
For more on UCR events, visit www.ucr.edu/happenings