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Dear colleagues and friends,

Many people enjoy setting resolutions in the first few days of January, eager to rewrite aspects of their story in the new year. Storytelling—about who we are, what we value and our hopes for the future—is an enduring part of our humanity.

How can augmented reality, AI, and marginalized communities transform theater? New Theatre and Dance chair Lisa Portes intends to find out.

Professor and Chair of Literature Kazim Ali presents a retrospective book of poetry traversing ideas of home, spirituality, love and loss.

Media artist Lauren Lee McCarthy confronts the boundaries of bio-surveillance in the exhibit at Mandeville Art Gallery, opening March 2.

Theatre and Dance MFA Alumna playwrights Lilianna Padilla '18 and Emily Feldman '16 are recognized for their work in the "year of dramedy."

In a new, thought-provoking essay in Nature, UC San Diego professor of Philosophy Eddy Keming Chen explores whether the quantum Universe can be not just deterministic but also preordained, from a certain perspective, in quantum cosmology. Chen believes that if we can discover the law, we might just discover why the Universe formed the way it did.

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The Sonic Arts Research and Development Group, a project out of the Qualcomm Institute that uniquely bridges Music and technology, designs new tools for immersive music and 3D soundscapes in extended reality. 

"Distributed Consciousness" is a multimedia exhibition by Memo Atkin (Visual Arts) that transcends human-centered perspectives to explore ideas of collective consciousness and knowledge-building through cephalopod cognition and AI.  

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Re-live the exhibit opening for,  "NOT NOW BUT NOW" at the Mandeville Art Gallery, featuring the work of six Visual Arts MFA scholars. Their research spans photography, film/video, printmaking, sculpture, drawing and performance, and will be on view through Feb. 3.

This exhibition is a preview of the annual Graduate Open Studios event on Saturday, March 2, which showcases the work of more than 30 MFA and Ph.D. students.

Follow the School on social media (@ucsd.ah) for more news and behind-the-scenes content!

The annual Ranglas Lecture hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies within the Institute of Arts and Humanities will feature "The Blues of Achilles," a 17-song musical adaptation of Homer's epic tale, by singer/songwriter Joe Goodkin, with a discussion following.

The Alumni office presents two days of inspiration and education around the theme "Embracing Equity: Perspectives on Environmental Justice." Famed science fiction writer and Literature alumnus, Kim Stanley Robinson '74, PhD '82 will speak during session one.

This Holocaust Living History Workshop event, organized by the Library and Jewish Studies Program, will feature legal scholar James Q. Whitman presenting a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws.

Save the date for the Institute for Practical Ethics annual keynote symposium featuring  David Danks (Philosophy) discussing the ethical and policy implications of artificial intelligence. Danks serves on the National AI Advisory Committee.

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