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Apr
improvability
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 30 / 8:00 PM - "Oregon Trail Theme Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
April 2010
30
Apr
Shakespeare in the Park
Unpredictable Commedia del 'Arte meets Shakespeare in their tragically tragic play, "McBeth" Friday, April 30 / 7:00 PM Saturday, May 1 / 7:00 PM Anisqoyo Park, Isla Vista Free...
30
Apr
Future of Publishing in the Humanities Audio Now Available
The audio version of the Future of the University series' Future of Publishing in the Humanities event is now available on the event webpage. ...
30
Apr
Obama and the Struggle to Reform U.S. Policy
Theda Skocpol (Harvard, Sociology) Friday, April 30 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Sponsored by the Center...
30
Apr
White Ribbon
Friday, April 30 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 3 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
29
Apr
Armenia and the Middle East: Recent Political Developments in the Region
Grigor Hovhannissian (Consul-General of the Republic of Armenia) Thursday, April 29 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 Grigor Hovhannissian. Born in 1971 in Yerevan, Mr. Hovhannissian has an extended academic and professional experience in international affairs. He graduated from the department of Arab Studies of the Yerevan...
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Upcoming Events
28
Apr
Funding Opportunities: Deadline May 17
Our May 17 deadline for research focus groups and research fellowships is quickly approaching. For application details and other information, please visit: Research Fellowships (Formerly Senior Fellowships) Research Focus Groups ...
28
Apr
Field Trip to Shepherd’s Farm
Wednesday, April 28 / 2:00 PM Shepherd's Farm, Santa Barbara Join the Community Sustainable Food Group for a visit to Shepherd's Farm here in Santa Barbara. Transportation will be provided. Location of departure to be announced. Please contact Megan Carney at megcarney@gmail.com for more details. Sponsored by Community...
27
Apr
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Tuesday, April 2, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and...
27
Apr
The Sikh Gurdwara: Negotiating, Maintaining and Transmitting Immigrants’ Identities
Laura Hirvi (Visiting Fulbright Student, UCSB) Tuesday, April 27 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall The lecture examines the experiences of Sikhs who migrated to Finland and California, and the impact that this event had on their lives and on the lives of their offspring....
26
Apr
Semblance, Appearance and Disappearance: Critical Strategies in the Work of Gerhard Richter and Other Contemporary Artists
Regents’ Lecturer Armin Zweite Monday, April 26 / 5:30 PM HSSB 1174 Richter once said: “I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circuitous.” The problem is compounded...
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Upcoming Events
26
Apr
UCIRA State of the Arts Conference: Call for Proposals
The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) and the University of California, San Diego are pleased to announce the 4th annual UCIRA State of the Arts conference, to take place at UCSD November 18-21, 2010. Proposals are currently being accepted which address the theme Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University.
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Apr
24
Apr
“New” Evangelical Studies Conference
Saturday, April 24 / 9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB During the 2009 American Academy of Religion annual conference the North American Religions Section hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “‘New’ Evangelical History?” It explored the meaning of evangelical history in a plural North American context, suggesting...
23
Apr
Coercion, Compliance and Resistance in Wartime Japan, 1942-45
Samuel H. Yamashita (History, Pomona College) Friday, April 23 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 Samuel H. Yamashita is the Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College and an author of numerous publications on Japanese intellectual history including Leaves from An Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the...
23
Apr
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 23 / 8:00 PM - "Free Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte FREE...
23
Apr
Don’t Bank on Amerika
Alumni Weekend and 40th Anniversary of the Isla Vista Riots Special Event: Isla Vista Film Festival Friday, April 23 / 7:00 PM Saturday, April 24 / 7:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
22
Apr
Indigenous Cultural Sovereignty in a Global Context
James Fenelon (Sociology, CSU San Bernardino) Thursday, April 22 / 4:00PM Flying A Studios Room, UCEN American Indian and Native Nation struggles over cultural sovereignty are related to conflicts that Indigenous Peoples are involved with globally: over autonomy, land and resource rights, and about the very nature of...
22
Apr
Arctic and Antarctic Circles
Hester Blum (English, Penn State University) Thursday, April 22, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2007 a Russian submarine planted a titanium flag on the Arctic seabed under the North Pole, laying the groundwork for Russia's claim to Arctic oil resources. "Arctic and Antarctic...
21
Apr
The Fabrication of the King: Raphael and Le Brun Reflecting on the Textile Medium
Tristan Weddigen (Art History, Univeristy of Zurich) Wednesday, April 21 / 5:00 PM 1173 HSSB This paper investigates the historical discourse of the textile image. The first case study is dedicated to Raphael's Acts of the Apostles for the Sistine Chapel and examines the visual and biblical self-justification...
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Upcoming Events
21
Apr
The Future of Publishing in the Humanities
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What does the future of publishing in the humanities look like? This panel will discuss the current challenges that academic publishing in the humanities face and new solutions in response to them. E- scholarship, open...
19
Apr
Nationalizing States Revisited
Rogers Brubaker (Sociology, UCLA) Monday, April 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Brubaker will return to his influential book, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, to reflect upon changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of...
16
Apr
Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and Their Conceptual Fontiers
The Second Biannual Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference Friday, April 16 / 1:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, April 17 / 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Sunday, April 18 / 8:30 am – 2:00 pm McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB BORDERLANDS: frontier zones lying along given boundaries,...
16
Apr
Re-Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Revelation, Recognition and Consciousness
Percy C. Hintzen (African American Studies, UC Berkeley) Friday, April 16 / 4:00 PM HSSB 1174 It is critical for the theorizing and conceptualizing of African diaspora to ask the question: "Why Diaspora?" There is much to be gained from an examination of the work the term does...
16
Apr
Daybreakers
Friday, April 16 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 19 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
16
Apr
Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War
Thomas Andrews (History, University of Colorado) Friday, April 16 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Andrews, an environmental historian of the American West, won the 2009 Bancroft Prize for his book of the same title, which reconsiders the social and environmental meaning of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre. Sponsored by the...
15
Apr
Stacks of Obits: A Choreopoem
Stephanie Batiste (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 15 / 7:30 PM MCC Theater Stephanie L. Batiste’s one-woman show is a rhythmic perfomative contemplation of the street murders of young people of color in Los Angeles. Batiste processes the obituaries, contained in a young woman’s scrapbook, of...
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Upcoming Events
15
Apr
Bringing the Body Back to Work: “Incorporating” Occupational Identity
Karen Lee Ashcraft (University of Colorado, Boulder) Thursday, April 15 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824 Management scholars commonly ask how people find meaning in work. Few ask how work is known by its practitioners in a different sense: namely, how work is understood in terms...
15
Apr
Show Your Support for IV Arts
For the first time, Isla Vista Arts is asking for undergraduate support for a $2.00 per quarter lock-in fee initiative. Vote YES on Isla Vista Arts Keep the Magic Lantern lit! Keep I.V. LIVE! Keep WORD Magazine on the street...
15
Apr
An Authentic Performance of Fishing: Indigenismo, Tourism, Music, and Dance on Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester) Thursday, April 15, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico, was singled out for special attention in the idealistic postrevolutionary years of the 1930s, promoted as a site/sight of authentic Mexicanness, useful for nationalistic and touristic agendas,...
14
Apr
Participatory Planning Towards Place Making
Seetha Raghupathy (IHC Visiting Scholar) Wednesday, April 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Participatory Planning Towards Place Making" continues a multi-year, public art research initiative to expand university investment within a local community context. Through the support of the UCSB Isla Vista Commission and the...
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Upcoming Events
13
Apr
The Silent World
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle’s Academy Award winning documentary The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the...
12
Apr
Innovation, Adaptation, and Manipulation of Sexualities
Monday, April 12 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The New Sexualities RFG is presenting a research colloquium with two panels discussing the active and conscious creation, adaptation, and manipulation of sexualities. The first panel will be focused on sexuality in politics and the second...
12
Apr
Cloud Eye Control
Monday, April 12 / 7:00 PM Arts 1340 ---AND--- Tuesday, April 13 / 7:00 PM Broida 1610 Cloud Eye Control is a collaborative performance group from Los Angeles comprised of three members: Chi-wang Yang, Miwa Matreyek, and Anna Oxygen. They create original works that uniquely combine interactive media with live...
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Upcoming Events
11
Apr
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in WWII
Norman H. Gershman Sunday, April 11 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Fine art photographer Norman Gershman spent five years collecting the stories of Albanian Muslims who, at grave risk to themselves and their families, harbored Jewish refugees during WWII as part the Islamic tradition of Besa,...
10
Apr
Nascent Political Institutions in the Southern Caucasus: Late Bronze Age on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia
Ian Lindsay (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, 10 April, 5:30 pm McCune Conference Room...
10
Apr
Interpreting Leadership through Monumentality: Late Formative Period Pukara, Peru
Elizabeth Klarich (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, April 10 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB...
09
Apr
improvabililty.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 9 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
09
Apr
8 1/2 and Nine
Double Feature! Friday, April 9 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 12 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 8 1/2 screens in IV Theater 2 Nine screens in IV Theater 1 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
08
Apr
Oil + Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California
April 8 - 10, 2010 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/oil-water-socal/ This event is FREE and open to the public. No reservations are necessary. For information about each presenter, please click here This conference will explore the ways in which oil and water have created and transformed the history and...
06
Apr
From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond
Jayne Cortez Tuesday, April 6 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Ms. Cortez – whose career has encompassed writing, performing, and teaching – is the author of twelve books of poetry and has performed her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political,...
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Upcoming Events
06
Apr
End of the Line
Introduction by Michael Albright (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 6, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In End of the Line we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna,...
05
Apr
Sam Hamill
Monday, April 5 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sam Hamill – a noted poet, translator, and editor – will be reading his poetry. Students, faculty, staff, and the public are all welcome to attend. Sam Hamill was the editor of Spectrum magazine at UC Santa...
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Upcoming Events
02
Apr
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 2 / 8:00 PM - "April Fools Theme Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
02
Apr
Red Cliff
Friday, April 2 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 5 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...