February 2010

UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 26 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 
935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...

Jill Casid (Art History, University of Wisconsin) Tuesday, February 23, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the rapt attention to digital transformation and the consideration of global cultural flows and liquid images, we may run the risk of losing sight of the material consequences...

Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Olga Karaskova (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Monday, February 22 / 4:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 This event will feature two talks by visiting scholars from Université de Lille-III, Professor Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art) will discuss “Refashioning...

Bonnie Crouse (Dining Services, UCSB) David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Monday, February 22 / 1:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 Bonnie Crouse with be present a talk entitled, "UCSB Dining Services' Sustainability Initiative." A representative from Dining Services will discuss their sustainability initiative and will address issues such...

UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 19 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 
935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...

Johanna Drucker Friday, February 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our understanding of the way the graphical organization of codex books supports functionality has increased dramatically in the era of digital design activity. The analysis of format features and design elements in print, once approached...

Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson Wednesday, February 17 / 6:00 PM Isla Vista Theater II Click here for more info about Facs of Life Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson are the co-directors of Facs of Life, a feature documentary on Deleuze.  Inspired by, and making creative use of, the...

Dick Hebdige (Art Studio, UCSB) Tuesday, February 16, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen…” Reyner Banham, Scenes from America Deserta In January 2009 the UC Institute...

UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 12 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 
935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...

Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, February 9, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turns her new...

Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB) Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM SSMS 3122 Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in...

Ethan Bronner (Jerusalem Bureau Chief, New York Times) Monday, February 8 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall - Free Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times will combine diplomatic and political analysis with behind-the-scenes stories from his reporting to explore the challenges faced by a...

UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 5 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 
935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...

Michael Soldatenko (Chicano Studies, Cal State Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 3 / 12:00 PM South Hall 1623 Professor Michael Soldatenko will talk on his newly published book Chicano Studies: The Genesis of a Discipline.  Professor Soldatenko is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal...

Susan Keller (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, February 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The figure of a woman applying makeup in public was one of the quintessential images of modernity in the early twentieth century, and also highly scandalous. This talk explores the ways...

Wade Clark Roof (Religious Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, February 2 / 2:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 Professor Roof is a leading sociologist of American religion. He will be speaking about his current project on the “new progressive religious movement,” particularly in southern California. Using a multi-dimensional methodology...