Ursula Biemann Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The...
Brian Holmes and Dmitri Vilenski Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Brian Holmes is a theorist, writer and translator who has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) and is currently working on geopolitics and geopoetics...
Steven Topik (History, UC Irvine) Tuesday, March 2 / 12:00 PM 4020 HSSB Professor Steven Topik concentrates on world history, with an emphasis on Latin American and especially Brazilian history. His latest works focus on commodities as a means of studying world history and include The Second Conquest...
Michael Fishbane (Jewish Studies, University of Chicago) Tuesday, March 2 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista Michael Fishbane will discuss the role of spiritual practices in Judaism -- through ritual and meditation -- which cultivate different types of consciousness and awareness. He...