Humanities Arts and Cultural Studies Content

‘The Backdrop’ Podcast Features the Mondavi Center for the Arts’ Executive Director on Program Highlighting Composers and Works Derailed by the Nazi Regime

Soterios J Johnson — May 17, 2023 - 10:00am

In the 1930s and ’40s, the Nazi regime in Germany and elsewhere in Europe banned and destroyed what it deemed “degenerate art” — modern styles of lit

Erica Kohl-Arenas Selected as Imagining America Faculty Director

Kimberly L Hale — May 04, 2017 - 9:30am

Erica Kohl-Arenas has been selected to lead Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, it was announced by IA and the University of California, Davis. Imagining America, a civic-engagement consortium of more than 100 academic institutions and cultural organizations, will move its national headquarters to 51�ԹϺ�� Davis in the summer of 2017.

Performances and Dedication Celebrate New Ann E. Pitzer Center

Cody Kitaura — September 27, 2016 - 9:00am

Its amenities include practice rooms, two harpsichords and 399-seat Recital Hall, but the Ann E. Pitzer Center isn’t just for music majors.

“This beautiful new facility will enrich teaching and learning — not only for music students, but also for students from across the campus who will take classes here,” said Susan Kaiser, interim dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. “Exposing them to music is a vital part of the campus.”