I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 25: The Disney Show...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Friday, February 25 / 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, February 28 / 10 pm I.V. Theater $4...
Julia Ott (History, The New School) Friday, February 25 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Ott’s book of the same title will be published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2011. Her next project considers the enduring influence of financial institutions and pro-investor ideology in recent...
Neil Denari (Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA) Friday, February 25 / 12:30 PM South Hall 2635 Former Director of SCI-ARC from 1997-2001 and recipient of the Ralph Recchia award and the Samuel F. B. Morse Medal for architecture in 2002 from the National Academy of Design in New...
Friday-Saturday, February 25-26, 2011 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara This conference will examine the intersection between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the spatial turn in the humanities. Participants have been asked to describe their mapping projects in relation to traditional humanities methodologies, research objects, and concerns....
Ana Elena Puga (Ohio State University/Stanford University) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Social Sciences and Media Studies building, 2135 (2nd Floor conference room) Ana Elena Puga trains a theater/performance studies lens on the struggle to control public perception of undocumented migrant rights activist Elvira Arellano, who was...
Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Bernhard Siegert co-directs the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar. Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanities and the IHC’s Keeping Time RFG. Website: http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/keeping_time/ Click...
Sponsored by the Office of Research, the Dean of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the IHC. You are invited to the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) for two days of events with Dr. Stefanie Walker, Program Officer, Division of Research Programs at the...
Mario T. Garcia (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB) Sal Castro (Retired Teacher, LAUSD) Wednesday, February 23 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mario Garcia and Sal Castro will discuss their recently published book Blowout! Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice. Based on oral history,...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 18...
Friday-Saturday, February 18-19, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Medieval Studies Program in conjunction with the UC Multicampus Research Project for Mediterranean Studies will be hosting a general workshop on topics in Mediterranean Studies and a conference on “Mediterranean Princely Courts and the Transmission of Cultures.”...
Nathaniel W. Dumas (Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, February 18 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Dumas's research focuses on the face-to-face and computer-mediated communicative practices of members of American Stuttering English Speech Communities and how their informal and formal routines afford the social construction and reconfiguring of a particular sociolinguistic,...
Neil Fligstein (Sociology, UC Berkeley) Friday, February 18 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fligstein is the author of Markets, Politics, and Globalization (1997) and The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Capitalist Societies (2002). His current work evaluates how policies in the 1980s and 1990s to “maximize...
Catherine Cole (Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, February 17, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “If universities can’t find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them,” says educational innovator David Wiley in Anya Kamenetz’s recent book...
Timmy Gambin (Director of Archaeology, Aurora Trust) Thursday, February 17 / 3:30 PM HSSB 4041 Over the past three years, AURORA Trust, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, has carried out a project aimed at mapping and studying the underwater cultural heritage around the Pontine Islands....
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Multi-Cultural Center On February 17, New Sexualities graduate students gathered at the Multi-Cultural Center to participate in a roundtable discussion titled “Positioning Critical Research: Funding and Publishing Sexuality Studies Work in Neoliberal Times.” The discussion was led by Dr. Melissa White, who...
Winter term deadline to be announced. To review last year's call for proposals, visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/ucgradfellows/. Questions may be directed to IHC Associate Director Emily Zinn: ezinn@ihc.ucsb.edu....
Esther Bates (Executive Director, Elverhøj Museum of History and Art) Ethan Turpin (Local Filmmaker) Wednesday, February 16, 2011 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Solvang’s particular Danishness has evolved in step with the American twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. An emphasis on tourism has both preserved and distorted the...
Monday, February 14 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This symposium marks the first anniversary of the Translation Studies Doctoral Emphasis at UCSB. As Emily Apter observed in the recent MLA Profession 2010, “In this time of economic downturn and the humanities’ consequent vulnerability, translation...
Elizabeth Clark (Religion / History, Duke University) Monday, February 14 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 In recent centuries, many have assumed that marriage, family, and home were normative Christian ideals. Nineteenth-century notions of domesticity and twentieth-century praise of “family values” encouraged the view that Christianity supported a pro-family...
Friday-Saturday, February 25-26, 2011 (more...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 11: Anti-Valentine's Day...
The Social Network Friday, February 11 / 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, February 14 / 10 pm I.V. Theater $4...
Daniel Rosenberg (History, University of Oregon) Thursday, February 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The convention of mapping historical chronologies in the form of straight, measured lines is ubiquitous. Yet, like the conventions of historical narrative, this graphic convention has a complex history. This...
Thursday, February 10 / 7:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Is democracy sweeping through the Arab World? Or will current unrest result in autocratic crack-downs, military coups, Islamist regimes, and chaos? How should the US react? What are the implications for America? A public discussion by Middle East specialists...
Mary Hancock (History / Anthropology, UCSB) Discussant: Amit Ahuja (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor, Ellison Hall The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a former colonial port...
Hussein Ibish (Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 9 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4041 Hussein Ibish will discuss Arab- and Muslim-American activism after September 11, 2001. He will address immediate reactions to the terrorist attacks, examining how the communities coped with various kinds of fallout...
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Wednesday, February 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Surround Sound" explores the affective significance of the relationship between sound and the experience of space, particularly with respect to language acquisition and its role in attachment. The practice of making and...
Call for Nominations UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities 2011-2012 UC Humanities Network – UC Santa Barbara The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, on behalf of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Graduate Division, is now accepting applications for the UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities...
Ronald Stroud (Classical Languages and Literature, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 8 / 5:30 PM SB Museum of Natural History Located at the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula, Corinth became famous as one of the greatest commercial centers in the ancient world. From early times Corinth also had a...
Jessica Brantley (English, Yale University) Monday, February 7 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB More devotional books of hours remain in modern libraries than any other kind of book from late medieval England: almost eight hundred manuscript volumes, and many thousands of printed ones. And yet this fact...
Nicki Lisa Cole (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 7 / 10:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today’s consumer is confronted with a growing variety of “ethical” products in the American marketplace. This presentation examines the practice of ethical consumption of coffee in order to identify the ideological and...
Judy Klitsner (Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem) Sunday, February 6 / 8:45 AM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Road, Santa Barbara What do the infertile, tent-dwelling mothers of Genesis have in common with the military and spiritual leaders of the book of Judges? In...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 4...
Magic Lantern Films presents: Santa Barbara Film Festival Selection STAKELAND Friday February 4/ 7 pm &10 pm I.V. Theater FREE...
Stanley Fish & Cary Nelson Thursday, February 3, 2011 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Outspoken public intellectuals and academic leaders Stanley Fish and Cary Nelson will go head to head for a lively discussion on the role of academic freedom in higher learning. Fish, a Professor of...
Thursday – Saturday, February 3-5 McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote speakers are Leon Fink (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Anita Chan (China Research Center, University of Technology, Sydney). Panels will address economic development, women and migrant workers, international labor standards, unions, politics, and law. Sponsored by the Center...
John Zammito (History, Rice University) Wednesday, February 2 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Reinhard Koselleck went farther than most historical theorists toward a conceptualization of historical process as multilayered, moving at different tempi stratum by stratum, yet interacting both synchronically and diachronically across the strata....
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel uses different media expressions to explore how urban re-productions of space/place often have emotional impacts on people whose values, cultural ways and quality of life are at best secondary to economic interests of...