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Friday, February 26 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, March 1 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
Friday, February 26 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, March 1 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
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...
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM - 4:00PM Mosher Alumni House, Alumni Hall, 2nd floor Saturday, February 27 / 9:45 AM - 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As the Medieval Studies Program’s major winter quarter event, this colloquium inaugurates, on the American site, a three-year project involving...
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference will feature a screening of the documentary The Storm That Swept Mexico and well as a discussion with producer Ray Telles. The panelists are Kate Bruhn (Political Science, UCSB) and Alex Saragoza (Ethnic Studies,...
Jennifer Klein (History, Yale) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) February 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Klein is the author of For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003). Boris is Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and the author of Home...
Chan Park (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State) Kathy Foley (Theater Arts, UCSC) Wednesday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Studio Theater Intertwined Lives is a collaborative performance between Kathy Foley, a noted puppeteer and mask artist of Southeast Asian and Korean material, and Chan Park, an internationally known...
Anthony Barbieri-Low (History, UCSB) Wednesday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The transmissions of a vast number of artmotifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoric period was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across the Eurasian Steppes...
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...
Friday, February 19 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 22 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
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...
Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Friday, February 19 / 12:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Paul Spickard is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in comparative international perspective. An award-winning teacher, among his many books are Japanese Americans: The Formation and...
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...
Saloni Mathur (Art History, University of California, Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 17 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Professor Mathur’s lecture revisited the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the cosmopolitan helm of modern Indian art, by focusing on...
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...
Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington) Wednesday, February 17, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone...
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...
John W. I. Lee (History, UCSB) Monday, February 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
Friday, February 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
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...
Thursday, February 11, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The idea of a liberal education is threatened today by the assumption that learning is insignificant if it does not have immediate economic and commercial impact. This panel will examine the values underlying the idea...
Alexander Huang (Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State University) Wednesday, February 10 / 5:00 PM Theater and Dance 2517 Shakespeare is a frequent traveler to Asia, and for nearly two centuries, East Asian theater directors and filmmakers have engaged Shakespeare in a wide range of contexts...
Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, February 10, 2010 / 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in global economy because of its oil resources. It is also home to Islam’s two leading sacred cities—Mecca and Medina. Drawing on his recent research,...
Hasan Nuhanovic Wednesday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Orfalea Center Seminar Room, 1005 Robertson Gym Hasan Nuhanovic is visiting California for a lecture at the UCLA Human Rights Colloquium Series and joins us at UCSB to give a talk on the events surrounding the fall and genocide of...
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...
Tomasz Kizny Monday, February 8 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38). First, historic prison portraits of the victims with biographical notes accompanied...
Friday, February 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 8 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
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...
Katie Quan (UC Berkeley Labor Center) Friday, February 5 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, the Dept. of Feminist Studies, the Dept....
David Laitin (Political Science, Stanford) Thursday, February 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Rm, 6020 HSSB David D. Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Among his many influential books and articles are Nations, States and Violence...
Moon-Kie Jung (Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Wednesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Against the prevalent assumption that the United States is a nation-state, the US is reconceptualized here as an empire-state. In addition to being descriptively more apt, this shift provides a...
Mohammad Amjad Wednesday, February 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Rm, 6020 HSSB Mohammad Amjad has just returned from Iran where he was an activist in the protest movement following the Iranian elections. An expert in Iranian nuclear diplomacy and foreign policy, he received his PhD in...
Bishnupriya Ghosh (English, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Icons have a glittering life in South Asia, both as enduring images and as fleeting ephemera. We have lengthy and erudite studies of liturgical icons as well as...
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...