29
Oct
Halloween Triple Feature
Twilight: Eclipse & Rocky Horror Picture Show with Improvability performing live between shows Friday, October 29 beginning at 7 PM IV Theater ...
October 2010
28
Oct
Usable Pasts: Memory and Self-craft Through History, Song and Clothwork in Zimbabwe and Among Ainu
Thursday, October 28 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This topic will be discussed by Ann-elise Lewallen (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies) and Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) The presenters will circulate individual papers beforehand (please email Mhoze Chikowero: chikowero@history.ucsb.edu or Peter Bloom: pbloom@mediandfilm.ucsb.edu for the...
28
Oct
The American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, Arabism, and Anti-Zionism in Cold War America
Hugh Wilford (History, CSU Long Beach) Thursday, October 28 / 12:30 PM McCune Room (HSSB 6020) In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of the Middle East, an apparently private group of pro-Arab, anti-Zionist U.S. citizens. This paper reveals the hitherto...
28
Oct
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Winner of the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature Thursday, October 28 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be awarded this year to Jimmy Santiago Baca of New Mexico, a leading poet, essayist, and novelist. Baca...
28
Oct
What Do All Students Need To Know?
Thursday, October 28, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room What does every graduate of UCSB need to know in order to be an educated and enlightened citizen of the 21st century? Panelists include: Linda Adler-Kassner (Director, Writing Program, UCSB); Thomas Carlson (Religious Studies, UCSB); Diane Fujino...
27
Oct
Borders and Miracles of Art
Serena Giordano Wednesday, October 27 / 4:30 PM HSSB 3001 What are the borders of the country of Art? Are ex-votos included within these borders? If not, how would calling them “art” place into question the ritual value of the artwork (Benjamin) in the era before mechanical reproduction?...
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Upcoming Events
26
Oct
Introducing the IV Research and Teaching Initiative
Tuesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The UC Institute for Research in the Arts, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB Arts Research Initiative are pleased to announce a competition for research and educational projects that engage Isla Vista as a...
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Upcoming Events
22
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 22 / 8:00 PM - "A Very Brady Improv Show: Free Admission for Parents" 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
22
Oct
Charlie St. Cloud
Friday, October 22 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 25 at 10 PM $4 at I.V Theater...
21
Oct
Welcome to the Identity Studies RFG
Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) and Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Thursday, October 21 / 4:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Welcome to all those interested in identity issues! Please join us for the first meeting of the year at which we will preview our planned activities. The...
21
Oct
Why Does Time Have a Future? The Physical Origins of the Arrow of Time
Ulrich Schollwöck (Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Thursday, October 21 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The difference between past, present and future is one of the most profound human experiences. Surprisingly enough, this experience is not reflected in the fundamental laws of physics,...
21
Oct
From 1973 Photo Documentary to 2010 Cyber-Infrastructure Cultural Atlas
George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, October 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, George Legrady created a photographic document of everyday life in four James Bay Cree Indian settlements in sub-arctic Canada at the time of the start of their...
20
Oct
The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Challenges and Directions
Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30-4:30 Harbor Room, UCEN Please join the Library for a program on the future of scholarly publishing. Chuck Bazerman (Education) and James Frew (Bren School) will discuss some of the challenges facing traditional journal and monograph publishing, including how to maintain control of...
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Upcoming Events
20
Oct
Latinos and the Midterm Elections
David Ayón (Senior Fellow, Loyola Marymount) Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 David Ayon, a specialist in Latino politics in the U.S., will discuss the role that Latino voters may play in the midterm elections especially with the effects of the immigration debate fueled by...
20
Oct
From Literal to Spiritual Soldiers of Christ: The Contestation of Space in Late Antique Rome
Jacob Latham (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB There were at least five disputed episcopal elections in the fourth through the sixth centuries. This intra-Christian competition did not, however, lead to the contestation of space in the form of...
19
Oct
Snarled Megalopolis
Debut of IHC’s PLATFORM Gallery Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 6:00 PM 6th Floor, HSSB SNARLED MEGALOPOLIS Visions of the Emerging Face of Megacities This exhibition collects artists’ visualizations of vertiginously growing megacities, with their impulsive structures and grids. Featuring the work of fourteen individual artists from around the world,...
18
Oct
Ancient Northeast Africa and the Indian Ocean Trade
Stanley Burstein (History, CSU Los Angeles) Monday, October 18 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 The establishment of direct sea contact between the Mediterranean and South Asia in the first century CE is one of the most remarkable developments in ancient history. Scholarship has focused overwhelmingly on the impact...
17
Oct
Achieving a Two-State Solution
Moshe Halbertal & Raghida Dergham Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 3:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion A dialogue between Moshe Halbertal, noted Israeli pholosopher, award-winning author, and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University and Raghida Dergham, columnist and senior diplomatic correspondent for the London-based newspaper, Al-Hayat,...
17
Oct
Shakespeare in Anis’Oyo’ Park
McBeth! back by popular demand Sunday, October 17 / 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM Bring a blanket and enjoy a short hour of twisted Shakespeare....
16
Oct
An Evening of Music from Zimbabwe with Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited
Saturday, October 16 / 5:00 PM & 8:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater In the 1970s, during Zimbabwe’s war of independence against their white Rhodesian rulers, Thomas Mapfumo, often called the Lion of Zimbabwe, created the chimurenga (the Shona word for 'revolutionary struggle'). This unique style combines the...
15
Oct
Democracy and Insurgency in Health Care Unionism
John Borsos (National Union of Health Care Workers) Friday, October 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 John Borsos has been a health industry trade unionist for nearly two decades and is currently a leader of the insurgent National Union of Health Care Workers. He holds a Ph.D. in...
15
Oct
Questioning Questioning: A Discussion
Friday, October 15 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 A discussion of "An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation" by Tanya Stivers (UCLA). To receive a PDF copy of the paper under discussion, contact Melissa Curtin (mlcurtin@linguistics.ucsb.edu). Moderator: Mary Bucholtz (UCSB). Discussant: Geoffrey...
15
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
15
Oct
15
Oct
Tools for Map Making: A Geographies of Place Workshop
Friday, October 15, 2010 / 1:00PM - 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Maps can add important dimensions to analysis and interpretation in the humanities, illustrating the distribution of phenomena, patterns of activities, processes of landscape change, flows among places, and connections between natural and human environments....
14
Oct
Who Serves Whom in Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations
Anna Sapir Abulafia (Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University) Thursday, October 14 / 3:30 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Anna Sapir Abulafia's books include Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1995), Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in...
13
Oct
Geographies of Place Inaugural Lecture
Kim Yasuda (Art, UCSB) "Isla Vista: A Public Research Lab" Wednesday, October 13, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “We are within and part of what we study. Participatory research thus begins with the assumption that all forms of meaning, doing, making, thinking and knowing...
12
Oct
How to Find Funding for Your Research: Electronic Search Engine Training for the Humanities and Fine Arts
Whitney Winn and Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Tuesday, October 12 / 10:00 AM SSMS 1304 Join us to learn the best way to find sources of funding for your research in the Humanities and Fine Arts. You will learn how to use two campus subscription funding search...
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Upcoming Events
11
Oct
Stories From My Favorite Planet
Russell Steinberg, composer/pianist Mitchell Newman, LA Philharmonic violinist Monday, October 11 / 8:00 PM Geiringer Hall Featuring music by Russell Steinberg and text by Daniel Pearl, performed by LA Philharmonic violinist Mitchell Newman and composer/pianist Russel Steinberg. Limited seating, reservation required: please call (805) 893‐2317. Presented in conjunction with...
08
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 8 / 8:00 PM - "Live Video Game Improvability" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
08
Oct
Get Him to the Greek
Friday, October 8 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 11 at 10 PM $ 4 at I.V Theater...
08
Oct
Busy Dying: The United Farm Workers and Caesar Chavez on the Eve of Self-destruction
Matthew Garcia (History, Brown University) Friday, October 8 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Garcia is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. He is now writing a history of the United Farm Workers. Sponsored by...
07
Oct
IHC Open House
Thursday, October 7 / 4:00-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Please join us for the IHC's seventh annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC's two programming series for this academic year: Geographies of Place and Faculty Forums. Find out about...
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Upcoming Events
06
Oct
“I Long for my Home in Kentuck”: Christy’s Minstrels in Britain
Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern University) Wednesday, October 6 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1864, the popular Presbyterian monthly Good Words added a late salvo to the Carlyle-Mill “Negro Question” debate. Despite acknowledging that what Good Words’ British readers knew as “Negro music” –...
06
Oct
The New Nativism: Arizona, Immigration, Hysteria
Wednesday, October 6 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 This seminar will focus on this emergence of the New Right in the U.S. and its hysteria over immigration as evidenced by recent events in Arizona. Participants will focus on different aspects of the immigration debate. Mario Garcia...
02
Oct
Sol Food Festival
Saturday, October 2 / 1:00 PM Plaza de Vera Cruz across the street from the Saturday Farmers Market Please join the IHC’s Food Studies Research Focus Group for a field trip to the Sol Food Festival, a one-day community-created festival to raise awareness of the Sustainable,...
01
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe Friday, October 1 / 8:00 PM- Opening Night Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
01
Oct
How to Train Your Dragon
Friday, October 1 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 4 at 10 PM $ 4 at I.V Theater...
01
Oct
But but but…: Perspectives on Particles in Context
Friday, October 1 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This workshop will consist of a talk and a data session: Talk: Sandy Thompson (Linguistics, UCSB) and Jean Mulder (Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne) "The turn-final particle BUT in English conversation" Data session: "Concession and contrast: Intonation Unit-final though...
01
Oct
Stanford Humanities Center
2011-12 Fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center The Stanford Humanities Center invites applications for 2011-2012 academic-year residential fellowships. The Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute located at the heart of Stanford University. Since its founding in 1980, the Center has provided a collegial environment for...
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