The Illusionist
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The Illusionist Friday, April 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 2 / 10:00 PM...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The Illusionist Friday, April 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 2 / 10:00 PM...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5 April 29 - Jolly Olde England Show!...
Galina Bolden (School of Communication, Rutgers University) Friday, April 29 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This presentation examines the interactional construction of language competence in bilingual immigrant communities. The focus is on how participants in social interaction resolve problems of understanding that are demonstrably rooted in their divergent...
Friday, April 29 / 4:00 PM Theater and Dance 1701 and Life Sciences Building 1001 This symposium will examine the role of morality in the visual arts from multiple perspectives, including those of practicing artists, art historians, and museum curators. Operating under the assumption that there are...
Najib Bounahai (Professor of Higher Education, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco) Friday, April 29th / 1:00 PM *please note new time and location* 2017 SSMS The talk is about the interplay between cinema and politics in Morocco over the last ten years. Morocco has initiated several ambitious and...
Friday, April 29, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary graduate student conference is concerned with a wide variety of conceptions of space and place, both contemporary and historical, physical and imagined. The conference will explore ideas of place and space, and how these ideas have...
LA Urban Rangers (Art Collective, Los Angeles) Thursday, April 28, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Join Ranger Jenny of the LA Urban Rangers for a campfire program about their past and current projects. An interdisciplinary art collective, the Rangers explore the complex human and...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Wednesday, April 27 / 2:00 PM 2206 North Hall This workshop is intended for faculty who are new to UCSB or new to grant writing. It will cover how to find funding for your research, grant writing strategies (including interpreting RFPs, formatting, rhetorical...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, April 22 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 25 / 10:00 PM...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Friday, April 22 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5...
Ellen Anderson (playwright) Melinda Palacio (poet and novelist) D.J. Palladino (novelist and journalist) Sojourner Kincaid Rolle (poet and playwright) Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four local creative writers will discuss the ways in which notions of place have shaped their work. In “Loving Detroit Like...
Farai "Fafi" Bere (a.k.a 3 Percent) Thursday, April 21 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Bere focuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be said to embody...
Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Thursday, April 21 / 4:00 pm 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building This lecture focused on a certain trajectory in recent works by documentary filmmaker Madhusree Dutta: her preoccupation with the triad city-cinema-publics to...
Tuesday, April 19 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We invite interested faculty and graduate students to join us for a brainstorming meeting for the 2011-2012 IHC series Public Goods. Public Goods will be a year-long program at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center that will explore...
Monday, April 18 - Friday, April 22 Old Gym Gallery 479 Artist Desiree D'Alessandro, in collaboration with Raymond Douglas, embraces Old Gym Gallery 479's sports and recreation history in this exhibition that focuses on hybridizing the fields of art and athleticism. Ten student boxers from the local...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The King’s Speech Friday, April 15 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 18 / 10:00 PM...
Friday - Saturday, April 15 - 16 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference is an interdisciplinary exploration of how form arises from practice. Grammatical, literary, and cultural structures become entrenched over time and with repetition. Ideas and behaviors become increasingly routine, ritualized, automatic, opaque to self-reflection,...
Alessandro Barchiesi (Latin Literature, University of Siena, Arezzo) Friday, April 15, 2011 / 4:00 PM ** PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE** HSSB 4041 This lecture will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural phenomena, volcanic and sulphurous. Professor...
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Trevor Paglen (Author & Experimental Geographer) Thursday, April 14, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Secrecy is not just a matter of keeping information hidden; it is a productive enterprise that involves the creation of certain kinds of spaces, be they economic,...
David Novak (Music, UCSB) Wednesday, April 13, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The circulation of recordings encourages us to recognize a world of music from above. Scholars have often focused on the cultural blurring caused by the speed of global media, and the ways...
Rose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as well...
David Wilson (Founding Director, Museum of Jurassic Technology) Wednesday, April 13 / 5:00 PM Broida 1640 David Wilson will present the work of the 19th century philosopher-librarian Nikolai Federov, whose ideas about space travel and habitation influenced the scientist and visionary of Russian Cosmonautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. This story...
Cynthia Felando (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 12, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, Santa Barbara was the setting for the first-ever American “reality” television series, An American Family. Conceived by the producer Craig Gilbert as a way to challenge the...
John Schoeberlein (Anthropology, Harvard University) Monday, April 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor Ellison Hall John Schoeberlein is Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Sponsored...
Ronald Mellor (History, UCLA) Monday, April 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ronald J. Mellor is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, where he has been teaching Greek and Roman history since 1976. Prof. Mellor’s research centers on ancient religion and Roman historiography. ...
Saturday, April 9 / 2:30 PM Plaza outside Santa Barbara Museum of Art's Park Wing entrance Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives is part of an extensive National program of workshops and performances to inspire people to come together to read, see, and think about classical literature. This staged reading,...
Ido Haar (editor of I Am Carolyn Parker, dir. Jonathan Demme) Friday, April 8, 2011/12:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building (SSMS) Reclaiming home in the wake of disaster is the theme of this month’s meeting of the Environmental Media Initiative Research Group (EMIRG). The discussion...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, April 8 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 11 / 10:00 PM...
Keynote Addresses: Wendy Perron (Editor-in-Chief, Dance Magazine) Marcia B. Siegel (The Village Voice, The Boston Globe) Friday, April 8 /10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This one-day scholarly and artistic conference will discuss Jennifer Muller and the changing world of American modern dance starting in the 1960s and...
Mike McGinnis (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) Thursday, April 7, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For thousands of years, coastal inhabitation by diverse maritime peoples across the Pacific Ocean has included a natural history of adapting to changes in the marine...
Felipe Rojas (Getty Postdoctoral Fellow) Wednesday, April 6 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4041 Felipe's research examines the re-use of Lydian landscapes, monuments, and objects at Sardis in the Roman period. He is a 2011-2012 postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Villa. Sponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands RFG....
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Tuesday, April 5 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Experimental systems and their dynamics are the focus of Rheinberger's paper. For a long time, identity and contradiction were the categories in which historical trajectories were...
Lisa Jacobson (History, UCSB) Tuesday, April 5 / 11:00 AM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and...
Ido Haar (Documentary Filmmaker) Friday, April 1, 2011 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Just as Mexicans cross U.S. borders illegally to find work as day laborers, thousands of Palestinians do likewise, into neighboring Israel, seeking jobs in construction. For 9 Star Hotel, Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar gained...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 127 Hours Friday, April 1 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 3 / 10:00 PM...