January 2011

Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1968) 97 min. Wednesday, January 26, 2011 / 6:00 PM Introduction by Colin Gardner (Arts, UCSB) MultiCultural Center Theater Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in 1968, Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) tells the story of Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, who decides to stay...

Edward Soja (Urban Planning, UCLA) Tuesday, January 25, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience. In his 2010 book Seeking Spatial Justice from which this lecture will be drawn, Soja argues that justice has a geography...

John G. Younger (Classics, University of Kansas) Friday, January 21 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Younger's talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological, iconographic, and...

Peder Anker (Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study / The Environmental Studies Program, New York University) Thursday, January 20 / 5:00 PM Buchanan 1930 Why did scientists and laypeople alike in the 1970s talk about the Earth in terms of a Spaceship? And in what way did...

Thursday-Friday, January 20-21, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The event will build on contemporary retheorizations of the Global South by exploring the rapid transformation of many relationships, communities, and alliances within the Western hemisphere. While the concept of the Hemispheric South suggests a move away from...

This award supports an innovative project in the visual, performing, and media arts that engages creatively with issues of interdisciplinary concern.  The competition is open to faculty and graduate students.  Both individual and collaborative projects are eligible.  IHC awards support scholarly and creative work that...

These fellowships support projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. Translations of writers and of works which are not well represented in English translation are encouraged. The work to be translated should be of interest...