29
Jan
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 29 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
January 2010
29
Jan
Future of the University : Equity and Access Audio Available
The audio recording of the IHC’s Future of the University : Equity and Access event is now available for listening on the event webpage....
29
Jan
Where the Wild Things Are
Friday, January 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 1 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
29
Jan
“Bellas Melodías”: Failed Reification of a Newcomer’s Experience in a Target Language Community
Michele Back (Hispanic Studies, UC-Riverside) Friday, January 29 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 One way in which newcomers may access a target language community is by emphasizing the relevance of their own life experiences to that community, in this way validating these experiences and creating a shared meaning...
29
Jan
The Importance of Hubert Harrison (1883-1927): The Voice of Harlem Radicalism
Jeffrey Perry (independent scholar Friday, January 29 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent, working class scholar who was formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia University. He is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is...
28
Jan
The Methodological Challenges of Researching Postcolonial African Histories
Stephan Miescher (History, UCSB) Thursday, January 28 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Within the field of African history, scholars have just begun to historicize Africa’s postcolonial era, roughly marked by the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present. This new endeavor presents significant methodological...
27
Jan
Sinister Yogis
David White (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 27 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building David White discussed his 2009 book Sinister Yogis, a historical reconstruction of the history of yoga through the lens of its agents, the yogis of...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
22
Jan
improvability. : Christmas in July, in January
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 22 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
22
Jan
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Friday, January 22 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, January 25 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
21
Jan
The Future of the University: Equity and Access
Thursday, January 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A panel discussion treating the futures of racial, ethnic, and economic diversity in the UC system in an era of budget crisis and fee "deregulation." Will the University of California still serve all the people...
20
Jan
Reading the Female Ghost: Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan on Stage and Page
Satoko Shimazaki (Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado) Wednesday, January 20 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Tsuruya Nanboku’s Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan (Eastern Seaboard Highway, Ghost Story at Yotsuya, 1825), featuring the disfigured ghost of Oiwa, is one of the most sensational and visually oriented...
15
Jan
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
15
Jan
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Larry Bartels (Political Science, Princeton) Friday, January 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor,...
13
Jan
“Teaching the World to Sing in Harmony?”: Music, Advertising, and Multiculturalism
Kara Attrep (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, January 13 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1971 Coca-Cola released its now iconic advertisement, "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." This advertisement and its accompanying jingle became hits within the United States. Besides its appeal as...
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Upcoming Events
12
Jan
Up the Yangtze
Introduction by Ronald Egan (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, January 12, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be...
11
Jan
On the Look and Logos of Zen Art
Greg Levine (Art History, UC Berkeley) Monday, January 11 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Everyone’s looking for something.” Some of us have found it, or part of it, in Zen Art, though the types of things we look at, the way we talk about them,...
09
Jan
The Kushites Strike Back!
Ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom Empire & the Nubian Dynasty
Stuart Smith, (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, January 9 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
08
Jan
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 8 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General ...
08
Jan
Zombieland
Friday, January 8 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, January 11 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
06
Jan
Language in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Policies and Processes
William Fierman (Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University) Wednesday, January 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor, Ellison Hall William Fierman is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Professor Fierman is the author of Language Planning and National Development:...
04
Jan
CEC Co-sponsors Oil + Water
IHC is proud to partner with the Community Environmental Council on all its public programming for the Oil and Water series....
01
Jan