Filip DeBoeck (Anthropology, University of Leuven) Thursday, March 31 / 5:00 PM Pollock Theater In Cemetery State, Filip DeBoeck invites us on a bewildering tour of the cemetery of Kintambo, one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Charles Acland (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal) Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Media Fields research collective is excited to announce Contested Territories, its third conference exploring the relationship between media and space. As a theme, ”contested territories” encompasses a...
Marek Halter Wednesday, March 30 / 5:00 PM Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara In The Jewish Odyssey, Marek Halter charts the course of Judaism from its origins in Mesopotamia to its place in the world today. Predating all Western culture, its early development...
Eugene Cruz-Uribe (History, Northern Arizona University) Monday, March 28 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Based upon his field work at a number of sites around Egypt, Dr Cruz-Uribe will develop a theme around the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt especially during Roman and Byzantine...
The IHC is pleased to congratulate the 2011-2012 UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities: Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand of the Department of Religious Studies and Julia Panko of the Department of English. For further details about this fellowship, which is sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, please...
The Early Modern Center's Tenth annual Winter Conference Friday – Saturday, March 11 – 12 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In recent decades, scholars working in the early modern period have been at the vanguard of literary studies. To cite just one example, some of the earliest practitioners...
Ken Mouré Department of History and Classics University of Alberta Thursday, March 10/ 11:00 AM HSSB 3001E Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative...
Yi-Fu Tuan (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Plants are truly in place. Animals less so. Humans least of all. That’s the sum of my story. I will elaborate on it in two parts. The first part identifies...
March 8, 2011 Mosher Alumni House On March 8, 2011 the New Sexualities RFG hosted a Sexuality Studies Brainstorming Session titled, “Rethinking the Funding and Form of Sexuality Studies.” This full-day event was held at the Mosher Alumni House. Paul Amar, Lisa Duggan, Macarena Gomez-Barris, J. Jack...
Nazym Shedenova (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan) Monday, March 7 / 12:30 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She...
Monday, March 7, 2011 Multi-Cultural Center Queer theorists Lisa Duggan, Macarena Gomez-Barris, J. Jack Halberstam, and Dean Spade presented queer critiques of same-sex marriage and the fight for “marriage equality.” Instead of attempting to merely transform existing, oppressive institutions, panelists insisted on the necessity of moving...
Michael D. Dixon (History, University of Southern Indiana) Monday, March 7 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 Corinth, like many Greek poleis ("city-states"), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was almost continuously...
Friday, March 4 Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5 The Nice Show at 8pm The Naughty Show at 10pm...
Barry Eichengreen (Economics and Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, March 4 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 A former advisor to the International Monetary Fund, Eichengreen is the author of Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2008) and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods...
Philip Goldberg (Author) Thursday, March 3 / 6:30 pm 4041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building For over two hundred years India’s philosophies and practices have been transforming the ways in which Americans understand and engage in religious and spiritual practices. This multimedia presentation illuminated this remarkable history and...
Norihiro Kato (Waseda University, IHC Visiting Scholar) Thursday, March 3, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk concerns the significance of the most remarkable postwar Japanese icon: Godzilla. In the 50 years since the first movie was made in 1954, a total of 28...
Sabrina Ramet (Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science &Technology) Wednesday, March 2 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall The lecture will focus on Prince Lazar of Serbia, King Arthur of the Celts, and King Olav of Norway, with a passing reference to King Stephen...
Colin Gardner (Art, UCSB) Wednesday, March 2, 2011 / 5:00 PM IHC’s Platform Gallery, 6th Floor HSSB Where Platform's last exhibition, Snarled Megalopolis, visualized the organic shapes generated by cities out of control, Suburbia will highlight landscapes and architectures characterized by regulation, uniformity, and standardization. These landscapes are...
TALK: Home as Elsewhere Wednesday, March 9 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For further details, click here....
Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In February 1991 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese exhibited “Near Goleta, But Closer,” a book installation subtitled “An Unnatural History.” While making...