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UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 28 / 8:00 PM - "Improvathon" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 28 / 8:00 PM - "Improvathon" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Elaine Chun (English, University of South Carolina) Friday, May 28 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Discourses about the body, or ‘body talk’, often constitute strategic practices for constructing identities, given that the body is a central text through which sociocultural meanings are displayed and performed. This presentation examines...
Andrew Johns (History, BYU) Tuesday, May 25 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a talk based on his new book, Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party – its congressional leadership,...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Mosher Alumni House On May 25, 2010, New Sexualities and Conversations for Change paired up to present “Race and Desire: Black Actors in Adult Film” at the Mosher Alumni House. Panelists Vanessa Blue, Sinnamon Love, and Tyler Knight discussed the politics of race,...
Monday, May 24, 2010 McCune conference Room, 6020 HSSB Organized and moderated by Mireille Miller-Young, the conference featured two panels and the work of seven graduate students. Andrew Seeber, Claudia Yaghoobi Massihi, Elizabeth Rahilly, and Rolando Longoria II presented on a panel titled “Theorizing the Production and...
Salman Bakht (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Christopher Jette (Music, UCSB) Alejandro Casazi (Art, UCSB) May 24-27 Elings Hall, 2nd Floor (exact location to be determined) www.lovelyweather.com is a work originally designed for viewing on the internet but presented here as an interactive audiovisual installation. This work, part of a...
Monday, May 24 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Presentations: Mexican Immigrant Farmers and Collaborate Networks in Santa Barbara County Teresa Figueroa (Chicano/a Studies, UCSB) Organizing MILPA’s (Mexican Immigrant Labor and Producers’ Association) Association in Santa Maria Global studies and chicano/a studies undergraduates Erika Herrera, Julio Vera, Jocelyn Gutierrez,...
Amy Richlin (Classics, UCLA) Friday, May 21 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For the last 20 years Amy Richlin has been one of the leading figures in classics and feminism. She is the author of Garden of Priapus, Pornography and Representation In Greece and Rome,...
Friday, May 21 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 24 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
L. Michael White (Classics, University of Texas at Austin) Thursday, May 20 / 3:30 PM Phelps 1160 L. Michael White is a Professor of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin and the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Christian Origins. White also serves as director of the...
Henry Drewal (Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thursday, May 20, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Arts for sacred waters in Africa are ancient and widespread. They express deeply-held beliefs and practices about the sanctity and power of water. Mami Wata, Pidgin English for "Mother...
Mark Dyczkowski (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi) Wednesday, May 19 / 5:00 pm 2001 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building One of the most notable features of the development of tantric scriptural traditions, especially in the early period of their formation, is the...
Introduction by Steve Witkowski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, May 18, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Once known as the “California Riviera,” the Salton Sea is called one of America’s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and...
Rowena Robinson (Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) J. E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies Tuesday, May 18 / 4:00 pm Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House The lecture briefly traced the past of Indian Catholics in order to enable us to...
Eden Medina (Informatics, Indiana University) Tuesday, May 18 / 4:30 PM Seminar Room, 6046 HSSB From 1971 to 1973 Chilean and British engineers, working under the direction of the pioneering British cybernetician Stafford Beer, built a computer network to help make Chile's socialist revolution a reality. The team...
Friday, May 14 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 17 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 14 / 8:00 PM - "War on Christmas" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled. Nile Green (History, UCLA) Friday, May 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room Around 1818 the first Muslim printing presses were established in Tabriz (Iran), Bulaq (Egypt) and Lucknow (India). These founding typographic presses were the fruit of distinct local interactions with the...
Jessica Wang (History, University of British Columbia) Friday, May 14 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Wang's American Science in an Age of Anxiety provided a major study of the effects of Cold War anticommunism on the American scientific community. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work,...
Christopher Newfield (English, UCSB) Wednesday, May 12, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system, with the University...
Ian Buruma (Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism, Bard College) Tuesday, May 11 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Award-winning author and journalist Ian Buruma will discuss the debates about Muslim radicalism, immigration, and the challenge from religion in several European countries where anti-immigrant populism is on the rise...
Maude Barlow (Chairperson, Food and Water Watch) Tuesday, May 11, 2010 / 7:00 PM Corwin Pavilion By 2030, demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by forty percent. The global water crisis is the greatest human and ecological crisis of our time. Because most of us were...
Friday, May 7 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 10 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 7 / 8:00 PM - "War on Christmas" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
J. Douglas Smith (History, Occidental College) Friday, May 7 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Smith's Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia appeared in 2002. His current project examines one of the nation's most serious but understudied distortions of the idea of...
Christopher S. Parker (Political Science, University of Washington) Thursday, May 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall In his new project, Parker examines the ideological and sociological origins of what has come to be known as the urban crisis of the 1960s. Parker was...
Wednesday, May 5 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This workshop is for faculty, lecturers, and researchers who need guidance in preparing a budget for research grants. The discussion will be focused on research in humanities, fine arts, and the social sciences. Topics...
Tuesday, May 4 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Meeting Rooms This exhibition is a special compendium which well encapsulates visual cultures, global ethnopoles, and urban public spaces of that time. On street poles, storefront windows, and community centers, historic Asian Pacific American graphic art posters...
Stefan Helmreich (Anthropology, MIT) Tuesday, May 4, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A new generation of marine biologists, employing the science of DNA sequencing, is coming to see the ocean as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in extreme conditions – from...
Anna Carla Lopez-Carr Monday, May 3 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4020 Dr. Lopez-Carr is a geographer researching the spatial complexities of urban food security in West Africa. As the developing world continues to urbanize at lightning pace, health research in these newly urbanized areas falls further and further...
Monday, May 3 / 12:00 PM MultiCultural Center The mainstream media largely frame the topic of migration by utilizing terms such as illegal and undocumented, which have an immediate impact in shaping public perceptions of criminal behavior. The media also focus much attention to the arrival of...
Barbara Voorhies (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, May 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB New evidence is presented for the antiquity of Indian gaming in Mesoamerica. Sponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG....