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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji

How oil companies shaped early cinema in Iran and Iraq

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UCSB Chamber Choir Prepares for Italy Concert Tour

UCSB Conference Examines the Role of Literature and the Arts in Sustainability

UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media Awarded MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Innovation Grant

UCSB Scholar to Create Multimedia Web Site for Ancient Arabic Poem

University Art Museum Presents ‘Signs of His Times,' a Gary H. Brown Collection

Composer Dan Wheetman to Explore Music and the Mind at UCSB Events

Exhibition of the ‘Sacred Art of Tibet' Opens April 1 at the UCSB Art Museum

UCSB Historians Receive Book Awards From College Art Association and American Historical Association

UCSB Art Historian Publishes Monograph on African Artist Ben Enwonwu

UCSB Films Premiere at Santa Barbara International Film Festival

UCSB University Art Museum to Make Architectural Plans Available to Owners of Homes Destroyed by the Tea Fire

University Art Museum Receives Getty Foundation Grant for Special Exhibition
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