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UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events [UC Santa Barbara's Top News & Featured Events] [The Current]( May 16, 2024 ▤ Top News [Sabrina Strings]( [How the romantic institution props-up a racialized dating landscape]( In a new book, Sabrina Strings blends historical research, personal anecdotes and cultural criticism to consider the demise of romantic partnerships, emphasizing the influence of racism and anti-feminist ideology. [Read more about “The End of Love”]( [Detail from Chiho Harazaki's Shippo]( [‘Positive Exposure: SoCal Asian American Art’ exhibit features student and alumni artists]( A multimedia art exhibition currently on view in Los Angeles shines a spotlight on campus-affiliated artists and offers a nuanced presentation of the diverse and intergenerational voices within the Asian American and Pacific Islander artistic community. [Read more about their work]( [Doctoral students Yuri Fraccaroli, Salma Shash and Tinghao Zhou]( [Three win prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship]( Doctoral students Yuri Fraccaroli, Salma Shash and Tinghao Zhou are among 45 awardees selected from a nationwide pool of more than 700 Ph.D. students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. [Read more about the recipients]( [More News]( ▤ Featured Events [Bruce Liu]( May 16, 2024 The celebrated young pianist, whose first album, “Waves,” was released in 2023, makes his Santa Barbara debut in an Arts & Lectures event at Music Academy of the West. [Enmeshed: Photography, Lace, and Women’s Labor]( May 17, 2024 The History of Art & Architecture Lecture Series presents Beth Saunders, curator at the University of Maryland, in a talk examining the social and economic forces embedded in an understudied 1869 Victorian photobook. [From the Reagan Revolution to the Trump Insurrection]( May 22, 2024 USC’s Diane Winston, the Knight Chair in Media and Religion and a professor of journalism and communication, discusses how evangelical religion, the news media and social turmoil culminated in MAGA’s “Second Coming.” [More Events]( Explore [Arts]( [Science & Technology]( [Society & Culture]( [Campus & Community]( [Events]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Vimeo]( [LinkedIn]( [RSS Feeds]( Choose the emails you would like to receive by [managing your preferences](. If you do not wish to receive any emails from UC Santa Barbara Institutional Advancement (this includes event invitations, newsletters, networking opportunities and stories of philanthropy), you can [opt out of them ALL](. Got this as a forward [Sign up]( to receive our future emails. View this email [online](. UC Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA 93106 US This email was sent to {EMAIL}. To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.