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Music and Dance from Eastern Antiquity

>> May 18th, 2013 · UCTV

West of the metropolis of Tokyo lies Chichibu Tama Kai National Park, a protected area home to the sacred Mount Mitake.

This majestic mountain has been a site of Shinto worship for thousands of years and the surrounding national park is scattered with ancient shrines. At the mountains peak, there is a Shinto shrine built under Emperor Sujin in 90 B.C. which contains a statue built in 736.

From this ancient area of worship comes a special form of Kagura, sacred Japanese song and dance rituals.

In this video, the East Asia Center and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara present the first and only US performance of Chichibu Kagura. These particular songs and dances date back the the seventeenth century.

Get lost in the mystic antiquity of “An Evening of Sacred Music and Dances from Japan Kagura Ensemble of Chichibu Shrine.”

For more world dance, check out this video of dances choreographed by John Malashock as he collaborates with Japanese artist Junko Chodos.

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Arts and Music, UC Santa Barbara - Tags: chichibu, dance, Japan, kagura, shinto, uc santa barbara

Tales From the Front Lines: Reporting From Iraq and Afghanistan

>> March 28th, 2013 · UCTV

Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time and the Boston Globe. As part of a team of New York Times reporters, Filkins won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In this lecture from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB, Filkins retraces the seven years he spent covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, using vivid images by some of the best photojournalists working today. Filkins’ intimate knowledge of many of the main actors – American, Iraqi and Afghan – in two of the most polarizing wars in American history, gives him a unique perspective on these contemporary conflicts.

Watch “Tales from the Front Lines: Reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan,” online now.

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Public Affairs, UC Santa Barbara, UCTV - Tags: Afghanistan, combat, Dexter Filkins, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Iraq, journalism, journalist, Pulitzer Prize, uc santa barbara, ucsb, war

The Future of Light

>> March 15th, 2013 · UCTV

The lights are about to dim on the UCTV Prime series “Lighting the World: Shuji Nakamura and His Brilliant Discovery,” but not before we present the fourth and final episode, “The Future of Light.”

Look at some of the research taking place at UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting and Energy Center, get a preview of what the future holds when it comes to lighting and power use and discover how Professor Nakamura’s work continues to affect the world.

Watch “The Future of Light — Lighting the World: Shuji Nakamura and His Brilliant Discovery.” If you missed the first three episodes, catch up at the series website.

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Engineering, Science, UC Santa Barbara, UCTV Prime - Tags: energy, LED, lighting, power, Shuji Nakamura, uc santa barbara, ucsb

Unleashing the Light: White-Light Emitting LED

>> March 8th, 2013 · UCTV

The first two episodes of UCTV Prime’s series “Lighting the World: Shuji Nakamura and His Brilliant Discovery” illuminated the UC Santa Barbara researcher’s path towards discovery.

With “Unleashing the Light,” the third video in the series, we look back on Nakamura’s breakthrough which enabled the creation of the white-light emitting LED, a crucial discovery that unleashed a revolution in the way the world uses light and power.

Watch “Unleashing the Light” or visit the “Lighting the World” series page to catch up on earlier episodes.

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Engineering, Science, UC Santa Barbara, UCTV Prime - Tags: engineering, LED, lighting, Shuji Nakamura, uc santa barbara, ucsb

Lights in the Darkness — Lighting the World

>> February 26th, 2013 · UCTV

We take light for granted, yet more than two billion people in the world go through their entire lives without reliable lighting.

But that’s changing, thanks in part to the brilliant discovery of UC Santa Barbara’s Shuji Nakamura.

UCTV Prime‘s new four-part series, Lighting the World: Shuji Nakamura and His Brilliant Discovery, made possible by UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting and Energy Center, tells the story of Nakamura’s determined effort to develop the white LED and the revolution in lighting that his discovery has brought to the world.

In the first short episode, “Lights in the Darkness,” John Bowers of UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency describes the impact that lack of reliable lighting has on people’s lives. But he also shines some hope on the situation by showing how the use of highly efficient white LED, discovered by Shuji Nakamura, is proving to be a feasible and economical solution.

Watch “Lights in the Darkness” now and stay tuned this Friday (March 1) for the second installment of Lighting the World: Shuji Nakamura and His Brilliant Discovery.

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Engineering, Science, UC Santa Barbara, UCTV Prime - Tags: efficiency, energy, engineering, LED, lighting, Shuji Nakamura, uc santa barbara, ucsb, uctv prime

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