Students find their home at UC Santa Barbara. Here, students thrive by building communities through student organizations, events, research opportunities, and support services. Discover all of the factors that make us proud to be Gauchos.
Featured Event
Tuesday, October 6, 2027 | 7:30 PM | Granada Theatre
Thikra: Night of Remembering
A defining choreographer of the 21st century, Akram Khan has transformed contemporary dance through works of extraordinary emotional power and cross cultural imagination. In Thikra, Khan unites an international cast of female dancers from contemporary dance and Bharatanatyam traditions in a vivid meditation on ritual, ancestry and collective memory. Created with acclaimed Saudi visual artist Manal AlDowayan, this immersive production arrives as Akram Khan Company embarks on what Khan has announced will be its final international tour.
Point of Pride
CMES Director Sherene Seikaly Received Fellowship
CMES Director Sherene Seikaly (History) has received a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will be working on her book From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine that charts the trajectory of her great-grandfather Naim Cotran (c. 1877-1961) from nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon. The book places the question of Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession.