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The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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UCSB Conference to Examine Christian Pilgrimages in Medieval History, Art, Literature, and Virtual Reality

KITP Director David Gross Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Foreign Scholars Attend UC Santa Barbara Summer Institute to Learn About Religious Diversity in the United States

Anthropologist Appointed Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center

Afrogeeks Conference to Feature Reports of African-American Success in Information Technology and New Media

Plankton May Influence Climate Change Says UCSB Scientist

UC Santa Barbara Receives $2 Million Gift for Public Film Theater in New Center for Film, Television and New Media

Scholar of Single Lifestyles Has Little Love for Valentine's Day

Prize-Winning Author/Psychologist Steven Pinker to Open 4-Day Philosophy of the Mind Conference at UC Santa Barbara

UCSB Religious Scholar to Look at Changing Face of U.S. Religion

UCSB Conference to Probe Religious Thinking of Jacques Derrida

UCSB to Establish Nation's First Chicano Studies Ph.D. Program
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